FDNY Ride Along...

[ERDoc]

Ruff, WTF? Don't ruin it for the brothers. It's bad enough they live and work in one of the most expensive cities in the country and get paid less than NYPD and FDNY. Throw 'em a bone and let the ride-alongs buy them some food. LOL

[Just Plain Ruff]

duly chastised but the question still stands, when was it his responsibility to pay for their food?

I mean he's got to pay for their food and now he has to go out and buy a suit too. Hell, he's gonna go broke paying for all that bling

[Kiwiology]

He can give me the suit, I need it for my medical school interview (if I get one)

Somebody has to put thee three year vocationally trained ERDoctologists in their place

"Yes hello my name is Kiwi I'm one of the doctors, I have a six year undergraduate medical degree, two years of pre-vocational training as a House Surgeon/Senior House Officer and six years of vocational training, I am a dual qualified specialist Emergency Physician and Anaesthetist, how can I help with your stubbed toe today? Wait before I ask, do you have insurance that will reimburse me so I make over $500,000 this year and can buy a new mega yacht? You don't hmm .... SECURITY!"

It is not his responsibility to pay for food he is doing a nice social gesture towards the Ambulance Officers for allowing him to come into their work environment and spend some time with them.

Edited April 5, 2012 by Kiwiology

[ERDoc]

If you find an ER gig that pays $500k, let me know so that I can throw them my CV. In the mean time, I'll be cruising your way in my 4-screw yacht.

[Kiwiology]

If you find an ER gig that pays $500k, let me know so that I can throw them my CV. In the mean time, I'll be cruising your way in my 4-screw yacht.

You missed this very important part

...a dual qualified specialist Emergency Physician and Anaesthetist

Anaesthesia especially private elective lists (tummy tucks etc) is where the money is mate

You should be talking to the American Board of Anaesthesiology srsly ....

[ERDoc]

You missed this very important part

Anaesthesia especially private elective lists (tummy tucks etc) is where the money is mate

You should be talking to the American Board of Anaesthesiology srsly ....

Yup, missed that important part of that. My bad. I think the Anesthesiology Board would laugh me out of the building, "You are only an ER doc and want to do what? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Security!!!!" Such is the life of a JAFERD (Just Another Fucking ER Doctor).

[Kiwiology]

Intensive Care Medicine, Anaesthesia and Emergency Medicine are the three interrelated specialities that offer dual-training programs leading to double specialisation here and in AU; Anaesthesia and ICM have an established pathway; Anaesthesia and EM is a bit more complex and less well defined but still possible.

Looks like you only need three years training to be an Anaesthetist in US too ... shouldn't be that hard right?

Also LOL at having to supply your medical school transcript and USMLE scores for residency (vocational training) applications; here nobody gives a fuck what your grades are like; I guess when I do USMLE to make sure I can work in US (we have no such test) that I might have to answer something other than "ask the Registrar, or if he died from fatigue ask the Consultant, or if he resigned from being burnt out and has not been replaced because of lack of money look it up on your iPhone" 322 times over

Edited April 5, 2012 by Kiwiology

[ERDoc]

Just goes to show you why US medical care is far superior to anywhere else in the world (especially in EMS) and why it costs so much, lol.

Edited April 5, 2012 by ERDoc

[Kiwiology]

If it costs so much you're obviously doing something wrong if you ain't pulling 500k then ... somebody is sucking up the money in between the patient and you

Might want to go talk to the lady who works in the billing office ... does she pull down 500k? lol

Yes, its expensive, when I was in ER in California for gastro cost me over $2600 for two bags of fluid and some ondansetron; they charged me for the nurse, for the doctor, for the cannula, for the bags of fluid, for the syringes, for the flushes, for the bloody alcohol preps to clean my skin before they stuck the drip in me .... I think each syringe was like $9 ... a syringe costs seven cents here hmm

Edited April 5, 2012 by Kiwiology