Contingency Plan
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Dang, US healthcare professionals get paid a LOT
- a med student in socialist Euroland.
- a med student in socialist Euroland.
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Dang, US healthcare professionals get paid a LOT
- a med student in socialist Euroland.
We also have to pay like 200K to go to school and have much worse hours, so pick your poison.
I imagine you have a lot more freedom over where - and especially whom - you work for though. I've pretty much got one choice of future employer: the NHS. Also, having the government decide how much you should earn (hint: it's a lot less than the market deems proper for private physicians) isn't much fun either.
They can prescribe their own meds and perform and assist in surgery which NP cannot do.
I'm a couple years away from having to worry about it, so my understanding is imperfect, but I think that the only NPs who can assist in surgery are those who are trained as RNFAs (Registered Nurse First Assist). I'm pretty sure there are some programs that offer dual training for CRNP/RNFA, but if you're just trained as a CRNP I don't think you can assist in surgery. The re-imbursement for a PA in surgery is 15% of the professional fee. 25% for a surgeon. I doubt RNFAs are different than PAs when it comes to billing.
I think a slightly better bang for the buck is CRNA. They can make some pretty spectacular money for 6.5 years of school.
In the OR I always joke that I hope when I die I'll be re-incarnated as a CRNA.
Don't rub it in.
I'm 2 months away from graduating IM and going into the hospitalist gig for a couple years before doing traditional practice and it burns me no end that a CRNA can make as much or more than I do.
This country will never have enough primary care for this reason i.e. it doesn't make anything (relative to other fields in medicine). My buddy from med school is in upstate NY as chief in his anesthesia program going on to do pain in July. Told me he will pull in 6-700k easy in a couple years and close to a million if he busts his ass.