Originally Posted by chelboed
Hahaha
Couldn't agree with ya more on that one.
I am a Cardiac Sonographer...I do sonograms on people's heart's. I am also cross-trained in Stress Testing, EKG, and Pacmaker Clinic. There has to be an EKG technician at the hospital from 5 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. 7 days per week, so I opted to go for the overtime. It was pretty wack...they had to pay me my Sonography wages at time-an-a-half to do the job of an EKG tech.
Saturdays are usually slow, but not that slow. Yay health care. That's almost as bad as stinkin drug rep's that spend billions of dollars putting their logo's on pens and clocks and crap so they can advertise their drugs. They give all that crap away and hike up the cost of the drugs and who suffers?
The old people who can't get insurance. There was a time when I collected all that crap, sold it on eBay, and gave the money to a couple of old people. I really felt like I was stickin' it to the man that day!
yeah please don't take my comment as a personal stab. i'd do the same if the opportunity presented itself. i have a good idea of what you make, so please don't make us all on this forum sick to our stomachs on your pay for the extra shift you just pulled.
i have done the same stuff as you minus sonograghy. this reminds me of the times when i was a monitor tech in a heart hospital for 10 bucks and hour and they would sit a "fill-in" RN (2yr assoc. degree) next to me for 50 bucks and hour ---12 hr shift!! wise use of hospital funds. the former RNs in management abuse their power. whatever...
all i can say, i better have opportunities in a few yrs to sit on my butt as physician on an "extra" shift just because they "need" a physician on site. new mtb=one shift....heheheheh
to OP: sorry for hijack, healthcare wasted funds irks me.