[SMGFan]

People need help and he must be exhausted? Or was he sleeping on his couch during some of the billed time?

[pepsionice]

If you look around at the Metro bus driver pay records in the DC region...there’s a fair number of drivers who routinely drive seventy hours per week, all year round. None of the safety experts will make a comment over it...but it’s just flirting with danger with one of these guys finally has an accident and kills someone. The Metro folks will have to pay out tens of millions if the driver was regularly on overtime situations.

[SERKIT]

Treating Bush Derangement Syndrome?

[pieceofthepuzzle]

This is what happens when government is involved in medicine. Most of us who do medicine do not charge for ‘overtime’. In fact, the opposite is true, and there is no renumeration for calling patients after hours etc. This guy has some kind of city contract that allows him to essentially rape the public. This is why Obamacare, and any other bureaucracy heavy types of medical systems, will not save money.

Further, I don't know whether this guy is from the US or not originally, but the general idea that bringing in foreign docs is going to reduce costs is just ridiculous.

[heartwood]

Eighty hours a week is pretty normal hours for a doctor to work, but not a psychiatrist.

ER physicians can deal with acute management of psychosis, but maybe there really are enough crazy people coming in that a psychiatrist does have to do 80 hours a week, which I will guarantee you well over half would be paperwork.

It is unusual for a doctor on salary to be paid overtime but that is the taxpayer-funded city contracts for you.

(A military surgeon in Afghanistan doesn’t get any overtime, and 80 hours might be a light week for him.)

[Mister Da]

This sounds reasonable to me. There are a LOT of crazy people in NY. :)