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[quote=Anonymous]Pushed out of a position as a physician at a medical school because I couldn’t renew an NIH grant. I had private grants, was carrying a full patient load (same as my clinical colleagues), got teaching awards and was a program director, but I was on the research track, which requires an R01 or a P01.

I was told that I should start looking for jobs because when my contract was up (in about a year) I would be formally pushed out.

Closing my lab was traumatic - so much research that just got dumped (cell lines and reagents) because there was no one to pick it up (no one wants to work on rare cancers anymore because the funding line is so low at the NCI - industry has now taken over that role in large part). Also had to find landing spots for my postdocs and techs. I remember waking up in the middle of the night and trying to cry softly so that I wouldn’t wake up my husband. Last year a German group ended up publishing  the same conclusion as one project we were studying, so at least I have the intellectual satisfaction that we were on the right track.

I went into private practice and I make 3x more than I did in academics and work 4 days/wk. However, we had to move away from friends and family. It’s been 5 years and I think I’m happier now - at least I don’t wake up at 3 AM and cry. But I still mourn what my family and I and my lab and my patients lost in the turmoil and the move.

As a result, I am probably too lenient with our employees because I know how awful it is to lose a job.

Ironically, post Covid my old hospital asked me to come back in a higher level administrative role because of the doctor shortage. They even admitted that they made a mistake in pushing me out. I rejected their offer.[/quote]

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