University of Buffalo Residents are taking a stance

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I'm a surgical resident in Quebec, Canada. PGY-1s make 49, 000 CAD per year which is ~36, 000 USD per year. Considering I work >80h/week I'm paid less than half minimum wage.. residents need to be compensated fairly for the hard work they put in. Starting with minimum wage would be a great victory here in Canada..

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Thanks for broadcasting this Preston. I was going to apply to U Buff as I’m from Southwestern Ontario, but this information has made me think otherwise

sebastianheine
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I’m an attending physician and I do stand with you guys. All physicians should!!

mkhatame
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I was an intern almost 15 years ago and started with a salary around 52k. It wasn’t a lot and I didn’t struggle, but 60k after all that inflation is absurd.

aas
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Cheryl Klass
$631, 169
senior VP of operations... imagine being over payed at Buffalo General but your job is disposable.

aacc
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Thanks for talking about it! Wages haven’t risen to cost of living and working conditions in residency, especially after COVID have made us less safe snd more vulnerable in an already abusive time in training.

zainabsumra
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Thanks for using your platform to highlight this. I'm a fellow in Buffalo and wish I would not have applied here. The deceptively high cost of living and poor healthcare provider by the program has made training unnecessarily difficult for me and my family. If I wasn't allowed to moinlight pgy-5 and on, I would have had to drop out.

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Physician assistant student here. So proud of these residents. One of the reasons I chose PA school instead of med school, along with many others, is the current inhumane state of many residency programs. 60k/year when you are the one working the hardest for the longest hours, many times days on end straight, while being hundreds of thousands in debt still from med school, is ridiculous. Unsustainable to have a family, like you mentioned. You can hardly even live your own life. All the while the hospitals profit immensely from it, as the residents are essentially free labor, as the positions are medicare funded. They are probably the most profitable labor of any employee in the entire country. Even Amazon workers get paid out of the company's pocket that's profiting off of them. Unbelievable system that needs huge reform and it makes me so happy to see these resident's speaking up instead of giving into the pressure of having their spot or even career threatened

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I trained at a program with a robust house officers association (aka union) and had better benefits (mileage reimbursement, parental leave, protection of off-hours, etc) than I do as an attending at the same institution and better pay compared to other programs in the area. It was amazing.

LauraKruger-tcei
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Thank you for drawing attention to this!! I pray that they see some real change!

ovardmelchior
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Boomer docs: "This new generation of doctors is totally spineless...insurance companies and hospital admin are totally screwing this profession over and exploiting us...how can we fix this physician suicide and burnout epidemic?"

**Residents unionize**

Also Boomer docs: "WAIT, not like that!!"

aaabbas
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This is awesome. Would have no idea about this situation if I didn't see your video. Wishing them success!

benjaminfranklin
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It’s a real shame when any healthcare worker at any respectable, prestigious healthcare institution has to worry about healthcare coverage for their own acute or chronic conditions (which by state and federal law, employees cannot be required to disclose)

The fact that this is happening to residents and fellows in years-long training programs horrifies me. Did private equity / hedge funds buy out the supposedly public University at Buffalo ???

YanpingSoongNora
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I recently graduated from USC residency, and we were on the verge of striking in our second to last year for these same reasons! At the end of the day they decided to give into our demands (literally 2 days before we were set to strike) because they knew that LA county hospital would not be able to function without its residents.
So proud of these residents for standing up for themselves. If we don’t look out for ourselves nobody else is going to, especially not these greedy hospitals.

namitabhopal
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Thank you for using your platform, this is something I wish more people with medical humor content used their plateform for

Mayor-qb
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My hourly rate when I’m on call is lower than a Macdonalds employee. 😢

tertongnat
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I'm not a doctor, but I think the medical training system could use some change. These resident doctors are extremely well educated and highly skilled. Yet they're being paid half of what an engineering manager might make.

It seems to me that this is the result of residency being required for a license.
I've heard proposals that nurses, nurse-practitioners, etc should be allowed to practice medicine independently to try and reduce costs. It's probably a better idea to give residents more freedom to practice outside of hospitals first, with sufficient measures in place to ensure adequate safety/quality of care. That should also give them more leverage while negotiating.

goodfortunetoyou
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Ahem. NHS and the BMA need to take note. They let it slide for 15+ years and their union did nothing.

kidaz
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Honestly such brave folks. I hope this translates to widespread improvements in residency conditions and future resident/attending physicians unions

jobis
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Lets not talk about the $200K UB Professor with a farm in Middleport, NY who received a generous USDA Farm Subsidy.

bobcaygeon