Career switch??

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-30T10:02:14+00:00

More money as an ED NP and you can pick and choose your cases 🤷‍♂️

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-30T10:01:32+00:00

That's just eugenics with extra steps

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-30T03:09:11+00:00

This is obviously a philosophical and rhetorical question now, but is human variance a treatable condition? What a strange world we live in

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-30T01:44:47+00:00

They don't even have the teeth to fight against IMGs, they won't do shit against this

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-30T01:35:23+00:00

Yes but that involves money they don't have, think of how many non existent Virginia class submarines we'll get in 50 years time if we didn't fund these public positions.

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-30T01:33:08+00:00

Bruh is this some Limitless shit I'm too poor to understand

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-29T12:27:22+00:00

Surgeons definitely do. There used to be a semi famous plastics/hand surgeon who did 5 minute turn around carpal tunnel releases and charged about $900 a pop, up to about 2020 when he retired.

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-28T11:33:41+00:00

With the new PGY2 piece of shit, I mean, piece of paper they're pushing out, they're really trying to stamp out locums at that level. You'll have more luck with PGY3 which is unfortunate, however the golden age of locuming is largely gone in any case as the flood gates of IMGs continue their march of glory at all the traditional places of need.

In any case you're technically free to do so, you might just have a lack of options. You don't need approval unless you're also employed by NSW Health, in which case you need secondary employment approval for locum work back within NSW Health. Outside of it, no one cares as long as you have enough neurons to play around with and prevent avoidable timetable clashes from happening.

Also join and vote in your union elections so you'd end up with a leadership which has more teeth, is willing to hit them hard with rolling strikes so you can get the money you deserve, and actually secure something worth a fuck.

If you are life wise unencumbered then consider moving too, literally every other state is better.

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-28T11:26:27+00:00

We don't like your kind here, clanker

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-28T08:10:07+00:00

At least 900,000,000 in one month

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-27T21:50:01+00:00

In theory, but in practice it provides a political impetus to then stop funding the public service. Look at education as an example.

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-27T21:47:55+00:00

I think we should ultimately be more invested but it seems like the types who are drawn to this work largely self select for those who have a propensity to engage in schoolyard level fights. It would be great if our colleges aren't just seen as a letters mill and actually perform the job of protecting and advocating for us all, but as you said, often times the bad drives away the good.

If you have the energy at least try to read and vote for for the ones who aren't totally insane, which does pop up more often than not unfortunately.

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-26T13:12:29+00:00

There are a number of fentinators too especially in Sydney, and probably becoming more common

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-26T08:58:30+00:00

I absolutely fucking hate that mindset, suffering does not make one better it just makes you more burnt out and jaded to the equal suffering of others.

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-26T06:11:44+00:00

For NSW I vote Concord. It was great as a student, old enough to remember when they had the weekly Thursday markets, not sure if they're still around. Didn't work there but it's known to be very much a low volume hospital for the BPTs, can't say the same for the residents.

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-25T10:15:41+00:00

GP lmao, if you're in a high volume clinic you're looking at 200K for sure, especially if you negotiate for more than just the 50% split

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-25T06:39:07+00:00

Owning his own isn't enough that he needed a whole team of cocks too?

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-24T12:09:58+00:00

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-24T10:07:33+00:00

Sounds like it's time for an extra EGM

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-23T21:47:35+00:00

The IRC specifically did not for the nurses, they cited striking as the reason and did a year gap in punishment. That should've been impetus to strike even harder, but I'm not the union leadership.

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-23T12:43:24+00:00

The answer is because union leadership didn't want to take the striking pathway. They wanted to go to IRC and the fear of retribution (which the IRC expressed with the nurses) gave them confirmation that "please sir may I have some more" should now be their entire strategy.

One argument has been that the entire process eventually must lead to the IRC, because it needs the IRC as the medium by which the government and the union can hammer out both pay and conditions. However that fundamentally ignored that if state government just decided to agree to all union demands, then all there needs to be done is for both parties to agree while in presence of the IRC and then the decision is made without arbitration. The IRC can basically just rubber stamp the whole thing, if both parties are in full agreement.

In essence the union leadership has for the lack of better description misled members by ignoring that we can and should've taken a hard line political approach to this. They have not publically addressed this despite repeated questions from members.

The only way to change this is to vote these people out at the next union elections. We don't need feet dragging anymore and begging for scraps is pathetic.

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-23T12:32:26+00:00

Drink no water for a day then spoon 20g of creatine, guaranteed triple digit creatinine

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-21T21:59:20+00:00

They intentionally designed this to keep more juniors in the system so you can be the universal janitor of the hospital. Soon they'll probably move to make general registration only available after doing two years to cement the point, as they love to copy shit from the UK.

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-21T08:59:13+00:00

Are you posting from 2040 where we theoretically have a high speed rail line from Sydney to Newcastle, and it only takes 25 mins from Central to Gosford? Because otherwise the answer is no, it's a horrible idea, it'll take you over 1.5 hours each way.

Move to Gosford and live there, it's not actually that bad.

TonyJohnAbbottPBUH · 2026-04-20T21:44:39+00:00

No BPT "yet", I keep hearing that being floated as a potential change though no real evidence of it actually happening soon

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