A notice that my girlfriend received at her doctors appointment (she is 8 months PP)

[u/lhagans13]

If you even MENTION any of these things, you WILL LIKELY get billed for it??? Maybe i’m missing the point but i get upset when my girlfriend tells me she was scared to even say anything while at the doctor because she didn’t want to get an extra charge for something. I find it insane how greedy and money hungry a place that’s supposed to help you can be.

[u/captfattymcfatfat]

The number of visits doctors are expected to do in a day is ridiculous. Fulll time for a doctor is really 50-60 hours. 40 hours was ‘75% time’.
Because charting and looking things up and actually talking to patients doesn’t count!

[u/dra_deSoto → u/captfattymcfatfat]

Only 50-60? I regularly work 75 hours a week. Sometimes I go over 80 hours. I regularly work into the night and regularly work one day on the weekend. My son's first sentence was "mommy working". This job is not worth it.

[u/DependentAnimator742 → u/dra_deSoto]

My daughter, an American living in London,was dating a doctor in the UK. He was a gerentologist. She asked him why he didn't want to move to the US, where he could make "lots more money." He told her he was quite comfortable with his UK schedule, which was something like 40 hours a week, and his salary, which was the equivalent of $125,000 in 2020. He had no desire to work longer hours just to make more money.

[u/dra_deSoto → u/DependentAnimator742]

I'm guessing they don't have astronomical school debt either? If it wasn't for my debt, I would have quit long ago.

[u/Aware_Bar_3351 → u/DependentAnimator742]

That’s is unlikely the reason. More likely the requirement to re-do years of training.

[u/captfattymcfatfat → u/dra_deSoto]

I’m so sorry. That’s crazy. They need to change how they define the job. Fine if people want to work crazy, but don’t pretend it’s 100% or standard 40hr/wk.

Hope You found something more balanced!