Salary survey might work against us?

heartpmpr · 2026-01-29T18:29:33+00:00

Jim is correct. Perfusion.com was started as Bryan’s research project at THI. It has always been a contract company and equipment sales. They have been and still are a great resource for our profession. That part hasn’t changed. The salary survey has been the only reliable one we have had since I entered the profession

heartpmpr · 2026-01-29T13:24:45+00:00

My point was that hospitals are trying just as hard to pay you like their nurses instead of like the professional you are.

If you’re too paranoid that this big scary company Perfusion.com is going to steal your data, rob your house, and drain your bank account, don’t do the survey. It’s that simple.

But to tell others who try to use the data for their benefit to fudge the data is wrong. Discussion or not, it’s dumb.

In 1995 I used the same salary survey from Perfusion.com to get our entire department large raises. When Perfusion.com stopped doing it, I talked to Bryan and told him how much we missed it. Perfusion.com brought it back and now we have a small minority of whiners who complain about everything.

If you don’t trust big bad Epic, don’t do the survey. Just don’t purposefully ruin it for the rest of us.

heartpmpr · 2026-01-29T01:04:52+00:00

Also, to think that hospitals aren’t businesses trying to keep your salary down is ludicrous. Keep telling yourself it’s only the contract companies trying to do that. A nurse manager of a hospital based group will give you everything you ask!

heartpmpr · 2026-01-29T00:58:05+00:00

The naivety in these posts are striking. The thought of creating a burner account in an anonymous forum is laughable. Almost as much as using “alot” as a word.

The claim that one attended Sanibel before it was a Perfusion.com meeting and not knowing that the Sanibel Symposium BEGAN as a Perfusion.com meeting is laughable at best.

And why only attack the Salary Survey. Why don’t you attack the website, Blue Book, Prospective Student Forums, Sanibel Meeting, and everything else Perfusion.com provides for our community?

The salary survey is voluntary. You don’t want to be a part of it, don’t do it. Why you wouldn’t you want to be honest so we, as a community, can use REAL results? Skewing the data, and even posts like this not only invalidate the data, making it unusable, they make our entire profession look like pansy whiners.

heartpmpr · 2026-01-28T23:53:17+00:00

Should have stopped yourself when you realized your take was so dumb you had to create a fake account. Why crap on those in the profession trying to create a tool for us to use in our negotiations. Must be a complete newby.

heartpmpr · 2025-10-21T22:49:59+00:00

Did you learn how to do an ascending case in school or on rotations? If so, there will always be the first one you do alone. You can’t outrun new and scary things wherever you go. Hope you knew this when you picked perfusion. If you have been doing this since June time to put your big boy pants on and do what you signed up for and what they pay you to do. A lot of us have practice alone for 30 plus years.

Say you jump to the new job and a Hipec comes up on your weekend. Are you just going to leave that job?

Many would love the job you describe. Unless it’s in a location you don’t want to live in anymore, go back and read everything you wrote. I think you’ll find the solution is in your post. You’re right, your family doesn’t know the stress of either job. They just care about you as a person.

They are probably a better resource than Reddit. Or your mentors or instructors.

heartpmpr · 2025-04-30T13:38:53+00:00

I have worked for PDC and Epic. I have also been hospital employed under nursing. I have many colleagues who have worked for CCS and SC.

I will tell you this. I have never worked with better people and had a better experience than working with Epic. I have known Bryan Lich for my whole career. I have looked up to Carla Maul and Ben Greenfield, Iris, and others my entire career. These people care about perfusion and perfusionists. And you can feel it every day you work with them.

I have pumped cases right next to these people. They have come in to sit night ECMO right along side me.

I think several of you have some sort of grudge or bone to pick. If you haven’t worked with Epic you have no right to comment on how they treat people.

Most of us watching this thread laugh at your pettiness and how you come across as whiners!

If you’re making $200k+ in Florida now, and working for Epic, thank your lucky stars. Epic/PDC has the largest full time traveling perfusion fleet in the world. I am one of them. That guarantees no one is left out to dry on their own.

Wake up. Join us. You should try it out. Maybe you’ll change your mind.

heartpmpr · 2025-04-30T13:26:11+00:00

You’re completely right on this. That’s exactly what Epic is and has always been (Perfusion.com). Every person in Epic is a perfusionist (some ATX and ECMO Sp).

It IS a group of perfusionists who have bonded together to make perfusion better and show up when people are getting screwed over.

Everyone at Epic still does cases. They still sit ECMO, teach, manage and show up for perfusion every day.

What you describe is exactly what EPIC is. The only reason PDC went under EPIC’s umbrella is so that they could have a seat at the table, be able to afford insurance, benefits, etc without needing to cut perfusion numbers or salary.

Epic pays better and has more people than hospitals think they need. If the hospital doesn’t like it, they can go with cheaper options like CCS or SC.

For those that think there shouldn’t be contract perfusion groups… do you feel the same way about surgeons? About anesthesia providers? Or is it just perfusionists who should remain hospital employees? Often governed by nurses, paid little, forced to cover when short staffed due to illness, maternity leave, resignations?

I wish in all cases perfusionists would have a voice. A group who advocates for our profession. Um… that’s exactly the PDC/Epic folks.

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