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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seeing patients as a provider is an incredibly rigid career and hard as a mother.  there is no "oh sure , I can come in and read to my kindergartener's class next Friday."  no, those patients were scheduled 6 months ago.  [/quote]

MDs are in control of our schedule and yes we can move patients. It happens all the time. It happens to me when I see my own doctors. No big deal, we all know we have families. 
NPs are not allowed to move patients unless they go through the MD and we do try to accommodate when possible. 
The majority of docs are able to be at all the parent events they want to attend, though it helps to be highly organized and aware of how the school schedule works, ask at the beginning of the school year and block accordingly. One of my kids had doctors (and a dentist) as the room mom many years. I did it for my other child for two years. My colleague who is a single dad doc did it one year. Being a mom or a dad and a doctor is no less compatible with family life than a lawyer or engineer or professor. Gone are the days when one is the only doc in a group or one of two and on call all the time and running to the hospital. Those who work in hospitals swap call or shifts with colleagues all the time for kid stuff or other reasons. [/quote]

Very dependent on specialty, employer, and level. It's highly variable. You can't compare the experience of an experienced pediatrician working in a family practice to a urologist fresh out of their fellowship working in a hospital. Totally different schedules and demands. It's like comparing a District Attorney with a trusts and estates lawyer. [/quote]

Actually most MD jobs once you are out of residency and fellowship are similarly flexible. All the new MDs in the adult multi-specialty group can swap shifts or call any time they want, everyone helps because people helped us when ours were young. We all get 6 weeks of vacation once past 5 years, 4 weeks before that. Many of us have spouses who are docs in various fields from ER to OB to hospitalist/ICU, ENT, pediatrician. Most of us have kids in overlapping school systems and we all block time for awards days, meet the teacher days, first-grade guest reader, etc. It is a great career with significant flexibility considering the sky high salary. I know DCUM thinks 300k is low. Normal people know it is high. It's high enough with two salaries to be full pay for multiple children at private schools from K to college. [/quote]

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