FC Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 I'm going to Ft. Beginning, GA with only 15 months to retirement. Seems like a waste of money. I'll head home weekends. New job will be CMIO (chief medical information officer). Good for the resume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShooterTom Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 15 months will fly by. Being away during the week will stink though. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 That's a good job title, Tony. With that on the resume and your nursing background, a cushy job at a hospital should be relatively easy to come by, I would think. But then, WTF do I know? I'm one of the best people in the country with databases and I have a MD. Nobody cares. I did just quit my job with the cheap soda pop company that made cheap soda pop, after almost 13 years. I started working there 2 weeks before 911. I started with a consulting company doing basically the same job yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted March 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 I wrote that wrong- CMIO. My biggest handicap is how rotten my hearing has gotten. Nearly deaf in the right ear, and hearing aid in the left. Dr. Hess- you're smart, no doubt. So you were the physician for a company? I was assuming you were a GP in a private practice. Yeah Tom, paying for two places to live is the hardest part. Then on weekends there's saplings, dogs, chickens, the antique store booth, and the house to take care of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzRednek Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 Tony I suggest you consider a federal job after retirement. Your years of service can be combined. During the brief period I was involved with health insurance for fed employees I crossed paths with RN, DO and MD's that flew desks or were involved with research. The non-military civil service medical people at Luke AFB were off and above the federal pay scale drawing some healthy pay checks comparable to the NASA scientists plus the fed benefit package and combining their military and civil service years for a fat pension. Pres Reagan ended the so-called double dipping. Feds could no longer draw a separate military and civil service pension check but I was told the $$'s were the same when combined up to 40 years service. I literally wanted to run and hide when I dealt with the research personnel at VA and Indian Health Services. The medical research people at Luke were friendly and a bit more down to earth. I assume it was because of their every day interaction with enlisted personnel and not spending their entire day with high IQ co-workers. They often asked technical questions that were way out of my league. Many of the questions dealt with procedures involving artificial insemination, infertility, DNA and stem cell research being covered under the federal health insurance system. Best I could do was ask them to write it down and I'd pass it along and get them an answer. Generally if the procedure was considered experimental and didn't have a CPT code it wasn't covered or partially covered. I don't really know exactly what the job description detailed of many medical people I dealt with that were not involved with patient care. I do recall two MD's that shared an office with a staff of RN's. Both spent most of their day in front of a computer. One MD told me he keeps Dr's honest but didn't go into details. The other was some how involved with the transplant program. There were some real opportunities for those with a medical suffix attached to their name but on the other hand there were some sh!t jobs like being on 24 hour call for a federal prison or working at an under funded clinic on an Indian Reservation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken98k Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 paying for two places to live is the hardest part. Is BOQ an option? I've been thinking about the fun I used to have living in the barracks. I wish I was young again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 I am a GP. However, that don't pay the bills. I was the database guru at the cheap soda pop company. I had a practice in town. See the doctor, $25. Not the nurse practitioner that thinks she's a doctor (no offense), not the physician assistant that thinks he's a doctor, see the doctor, $25. Nobody came. So, I went back into databases. I still have some patients and still have an office at the corner of my property, but databases pay the bills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted March 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Now I get it. Unbelievable. Not even Medicare patients came? Too bad you're not near here. Eisenhower Army Medical Center's Family Medicine Clinic was down 15 providers half a year ago. Do you do SQL? Quarters- they'd take my BHA (basic housing allowance away). I'm looking at a travel trailer in a trailer park, per another LTC's advice. AZ- can't combine retirement anymore under the new system. A lot of military retirees take jobs at VA or at civilian hospitals in Augusta. I talked to the current CMIO, who's a nice guy, and only a captain. He said they are building a new hospital with lots of room! Hey, maybe I should live in my office! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 $25 per visit??? MOVE TO FL. The Hippy and I will sign up in a minute...: ) Doc, I am very very serious in saying this, You restore my faith in your profession. FC. 15 months will pass and they gotta have a range ..Even Marines respect the people at that base. : ) karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted March 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Amen to what Karl said Dr. Hess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzRednek Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Amen to what Karl said Dr. Hess. I whole heartedly agree!! My GP or family Doc as I prefer to call him took a teaching position at an Osteopathic Med School as he said "to pay the bills". His RN wife had to resign from her hospital administration job due to medical reasons. Fortunately for me he continues to see his established patients one day per week. Best of all he gave me his personal email address and cell # and promptly responds if I need help. Best of all my Dr is an avid gun collector, shooter and I occasionally reload ammo for him. I could tell some real horror stories about PA's but I prefer to keep my blood pressure on idle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 Yeah, I do SQL. I'm pretty darn good at SQL, actually. New job is oriented more towards MDX, so more stuff to learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted March 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 I've never heard of MDX. SQL is VERY valuable! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzRednek Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 AZ- can't combine retirement anymore under the new system. A lot of military retirees take jobs at VA or at civilian hospitals in Augusta. Really unfair and I wasn't aware of the change. I'm under the original Civil Service Retirement System. The original system was self funded and had a surplus of nearly a billion with a "B". Didn't take long for Congress to steal the surplus, same as they did with Social Security and create a new retirement system for fed employees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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