When 20 Cardiologists Resign, Contracts Decide Who Recruits
Twenty of 27 cardiologists at Schenectady’s only cardiology practice have resigned to join a rival hospital, and a separate OB-GYN dispute in Lubbock shows the same constraint. In both cases the people were available; the contracts between institutions decided who could hire them. The analysis looks at what that means for recruiting speed, coverage planning and physicians reading their offers.
Moonlighting Pay Is Decided Before the First Shift
The shifts are worked, the notes are signed, and the money still hasn’t arrived. A fellow on Reddit described a “mandatory” moonlighting rotation that was still unpaid months later, and then an email saying an individual DEA registration had been required all along, even though the written guidance the fellows were given said it wasn’t. […]