Aren’t all prison doctors just apprenticeship proctologists anyway?
Are prison doctors in the same union as prison guards in CA.
The CA prison guards union is absolutely legendary for it’s corruption, featherbedding, work rules and sheer political power in that state. Under Greyout Davis they pretty much had veto power over every decision made by Sacramento.
screw giving inmates any doctors....let them suffer the way the non criminal taxpayers have to suffer!!!!
In the Federal Prison system. It used to be a few years ago that many if not most of the doctors were foreign and older and had not passed US boards.
The exceptions were to be found at Rochester FCI and Ft Worth FCI and Springfield.
Rochester which may now be closed was the only one worth a shite.
The backbone of the Fed’s medical system are the Physicians Assistants they hire. The older Vietnam era corpmen types who came over from VA hospitals had the reputation of being capable. many of the newer ones did not.
An unlicensed Fed prison doc made around 150K 10 years ago plus usual govt benefits.
PAs made 60K or so starting out.
Point is that medical care in any joint unless you are very lucky is substandard and probably worse than Canada.
and no one is gonna care of course unless their loved one is dying in there
He's raising doctors' salaries as much as 20 percent, to about $250,000 a year for many physicians. A federal judge gave Sillen authority to raise doctors' salaries as high as $300,000.
Here we go again. Unelected, unaccountable, Federal Judges issuing fiats from on high. Dam the consequences or methods, even if its feasible, just "do it"! Then morons like Sandy O'Connor moan when we the people bitch about edicts from Federal Judges - 'how dare we peons question them'.
Its almost like a bad dream - we're all back in the Middle Ages having to worry about killing the 'Kings Dear'. Or what tax the local Baron will impose next on his serfs (us).
“The raises come as the Legislature’s fiscal analyst is predicting a $10 billion budget deficit.”
California is in a death spiral. I give it 4 or 5 years, and then anarchy will reign, as the government collapses.
The law of supply and demand at work.
The only way to make doctors cheaper is to increase the supply.
fyi