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02-23-2016, 10:43 AM
$400,000 + three months holidays a year post on an island in New Zealand. Nobody wants it due to lack of infrastructure. I'd snap it up in a second. Great access to Asia for a single man.
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A rural GP in New Zealand is offering a $400,000 (£190,000) annual income to try to attract a medic to share his work burden – but after two years of searching the position remains unfilled.
The GP – originally recruited from the UK – told the New Zealand Herald his practice has “exploded”, but he is overworked and has repeatedly had to cancel holidays because of the difficulty of finding a replacement or locum doctor.
“I can offer them a really, really amazing income; it’s incredible. My practice has exploded in the last year and the more patients you list, the more money you get. But it just gets too much at the end of the day.”
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As well as the hefty salary, Kenny is offering the right applicant three months’ annual leave, no night or weekend work – and a half share in the practice, which has 6000 patients on its books. But despite the generous conditions he has had no applications in four months.
“I love my work and I would like to stay but I hit my head against a brick wall trying to attract doctors,” Kenny told the Herald.
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Reynolds said contributing factors to the rural GP shortage were isolation, lack of schooling options and social activities, and poor access to broadband networks.
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02-23-2016, 11:31 AM
This is the best thing about being a physician: the places with the most jobs and highest salaries are also the ones with the lowest costs of living and easiest access to the outdoors. In the United States for example, house prices and physician salaries are inversely correlated. Many docs making 600k+ per year work in areas where a huge mansion on a sizable property goes for 300-400k. It also has the ancillary benefit of not having to deal with the urban riff raff.
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02-23-2016, 12:43 PM
Yeah, this kind of stuff is typical. Medicine consumes your life when you are in med school and residency.
Your entire social circle is other people in your medical school class.
And the most of your medical school class will gravitate to the closest major metropolitan area, as well as the prestigious high paying specialties (ROAD - rads, ortho, anesthesiology, derm).
After spending years as a tight group, very few doctors want to go live out in the middle of fucking nowhere, away from anyone they know.
Even with amazing perks, they can't find American medical grads to do family medicine in bum fuck rural Ohio or Wisconsin.
They have to get FMGs (foreign medical grads) and Carib grads (2nd tier americans who couldn't get into US med schools) to fill those slots.
New Zealand and other places are no different.
People have a romantic view of being out in the wilderness, but it sucks after a while, especially when you have lived a very different lifestyle previous to it.
Imagine spending almost a decade of your life busting your ass studying and doing residency in an urban environment and making a social circle and community ties, and then going somewhere really different.
"Me llaman el desaparecido
Que cuando llega ya se ha ido
Volando vengo, volando voy
Deprisa deprisa a rumbo perdido"
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02-23-2016, 01:59 PM
My cousin and her husband, both GP's, took over another doctors (husband/wife) practice for a year+ while they do a sabbatical.
$350,000 a year each. They stay in their amazing house, and babysit their patients. No need to find new patients. Its also in a rich valley with access to amazing skiing and outdoors. Small town, of course. This is the key.
And this was after taking posts in rural Canada for one year to have the government take care of all their student debt.
They are debt free and will be about 500K in the black after this year. If they extend another year (likely, the couple on sabbatical is almost 60) they will have a million in the bank, before the age of 30.
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02-24-2016, 07:44 AM
That part of NZ has a relatively high percentage of Maori.
Maori, while lovely folk when they take care of themselves generally don't. They are among the most obese, prone to alcohol abuse, domestic violence and heart disease in the world. A lot of this doctor's patients will be wives or children that have been smacked up by dad after a night on the piss.
It's fucking sad. Maori in general when they're not wasting away are intelligent, ball breaking and sports playing individuals.
Beautiful part of the world though. The lifestyle in NZ is really good if you have a little bit of cash. World class scenery, cheap housing, cheap cars, good seafood, good beef. If you like you can go in the mountains and hunt down a wild board on the weekend. Went to Uni there and miss the shit out of the place.
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02-27-2016, 12:23 AM
Would not bang Maori women.
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02-27-2016, 09:17 AM
I've actually known some really fine Maori women, all under 25 of course.
The issue is the drinking, smoking and lack of hygiene. Couple that with NZ's dry ass weather and you'll find their skin goes to shit by their early 30s.
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02-28-2016, 05:40 PM
I'm from NZ. That job is in a small town with ~13000 people - 2-3 hours drive to Auckland. It's close proximity to good skiing and snowboarding, hunting and a surf beach is probably an hour away. No hot girls - guaranteed. New Zealand has an obesity problem similar to the states but in rural areas things are much worse. The town you're dealing with has high unemployment rates and lots of social challenges like gangs and domestic violence.
All in all its not the worst place to work in New Zealand. What it comes down to is 'why settle'? 400k is good money but a GP working literally ANYWHERE can still make bank. GP is a specialty renowned for lifestyle - 9-5 (mostly) with plenty of flexibility (i.e. holidays). I'm not whoring myself out like that.
Thomas The Rhymer is right - Rural GP is extremely difficult for single men.
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03-02-2016, 03:57 PM
I am not sure where the notion that being a GP is an easy job came from. The calls and messages you get from patients are nonstop and you are not reimbursed for your time in dealing with these issues. Statistically speaking, based on the size of your patient panel, you are bound to get a number of insane patients who will suck up much of your time and energy. You have very little time for patient visits based on how many patients you need to see everyday. The pay is good (though poor for the medical field), the work is difficult, and the emotional burden is high. In this new age of health care, I could see high burnout rates for GPs. The work is also not overly satisfying.
I am speaking solely for the US and cannot comment on other places.
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03-12-2016, 06:21 PM
They can't get a (USA) doctor because their offer of $400K is too low. They will get more bites if they offer $600K (USD).
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03-13-2016, 08:21 AM
Quote: (03-12-2016 10:23 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:
As the baby boomers get older, the industry is going to grow fast as hell. Better to start a senior living facility or retirement center. Better yet, a funeral home.
I can second this. Friend of mine started a nursing business, it went through the roof. Now he's trying to sell up and retire. I get the impression starting one in the suburbs or a lesser-served area is your best bet.