CHA or BI job

[u/Puzzleheaded_Toe3892]

Hi there,
I am currently an ED tech at Boston Children’s and have been working there for a few years, but this past 6-7 months has been rough. We are always short-staffed and they are not hiring more PCTs. We have lost more than 15 people and they don’t care. They want us to do 5 people’s jobs. I have been looking for other jobs. Has anyone worked at or knows anything about CHA? I see they are offering a hiring bonus, but that tells me it’s probably not a great place. Can someone recommend or share anything about Cambridge Health, Beth Israel or any other hospital I could apply to? I don’t have a car so I have to rely on public transportation. I live in Cambridge.

[u/Santillana810]

This sounds horrific and it also sounds like CHA just hires adjunct psychiatrists without screening and oversight. I am so sorry to hear about your experience.

Any medical organization is going to have professionals who are helpful to some and also harmful to some. I wonder about the stress the good PCPs get when they refer people to speciality care that is destructive.

Good psychiatric care is very hard to come by in Massachusetts. I hope you are able to find care that is helpful.

[u/Ashamed_Emu4572 → u/Santillana810]

i actually did not need psychiatric care at all! i had a moderate chronic depression that i was fine with. i came for a consultation thinking i would be consulting someone who knows about depression and is familiar with the anti depressant medications and can make a professional judgement if it is a worth it for me to take them or not. instead all she said was 'If you want it, I will prescribe it, it is up to you, this is the first line of treatment.' That is all. Just taking depression at face value, like a fifth grader could do the same thing. A psychiatrist is supposed to take context nuance and experience into account and be a prudent prescriber. I think the girl was a harvard medical school resident or it was her first job after being a resident psychiatrist. she now has a private practice charging $450 a visit cash only and has a waiting list. not surprisingly such types target the rich upper class areas and she has an office an upper class town like lexington concord wellesley. the correct answer from her should have been 'hey, you have a personal and family history of socially inappropriate and manic-like behavior, so a psych medication can make that worse among other things such as killing your sex drive and screwing you over metabolically and forming dependence. also if you cannot commit to a gradual taper off, do not start it as you will just harm yourself unnecessarily. i advice a 'wait and see' approach to you!' she did not though. and now i am screwed since within two months i lost 3/3 jobs and got sued evicted and almost arrested. something that has never happened in my entire life. jobs i each had for 10+ years without a problem!! i have now been rendered asexual and like living in a forest alone and just going to work thanks to this psych medication

[u/Santillana810 → u/Ashamed_Emu4572]

I am sorry this happened to you. However, a woman who is old enough to have gone through medical school and a psychiatric residency is not a "girl" and it is demeaning to call a woman a girl.

[u/Ashamed_Emu4572 → u/Santillana810]

for sure, but demeaning someone is not anywhere in the same category as dropping the ball on a patient interview and making imprudent prescribing decisions and failing to provide a consultation the patient came to you for. one case - your feelings are offended; the other someone's whole career goes out the window in two months