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The Sheriff of Sodium
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The Sheriff of Sodium is a personal blog at thesheriffofsodium.com about health and career. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked on HN for writing about US medical residency and physician training. One commenter recommends the blog for understanding the dynamics of the residency match.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /2022/02/04/how-much-are-resident-physicians-worth/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-14
What Hacker News says?
My wife's a doc, in residency, and also Swiss, so I find myself referencing this study [1] on residency hours in Swiss residency programs over years. Bottom line: there are limitations on hours/wk and consecutive shifts, but enforcement of that is a joke + nonexistant, especially among residents (note resident's interest in maintaining their resident status and remaining 'bureaucratically blessed'). [2] See the Albu…
Comment linking /2022/02/04/how-much-are-resident-physicians-worth/
on “The darker side of being a doctor (2017)”Submitted Getting Under the Hood – How Does the Medical Residency Match Work? (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you're interested in the dynamics of the residency match Brian Carmody has a good blog https://thesheriffofsodium.com/2019/03/02/the-etiology-of-ap...
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on “Hospitals are suddenly short of young doctors because of visa ban”> [you] are essentially making a hand-waving argument I'm not the only one. "In Elisabeth Rosenthal’s excellent book, An American Sickness, she notes: 'The median cost to a hospital for each full-time resident in 2013 was $134,803. That includes a salary of between $50,000 and $80,000. Federal support translates into about $100,000 per resident per year. Researchers have calculated that the value of the work each re…
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on “It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead”>It does not stand to reason, since care provided by residents is quite cheap to hospitals from the perspective of labor. The AMA represents doctors, not hospitals, and doctors benefit from scarcity. Hospitals benefit from residency grants, existing doctors do not. >Do you have evidence of this lobbying? Here is a source [1] >Hospitals have no obligation to hire the residents they produce, so an optimal behavior wou…
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on “Why doctors in America earn so much”It is the same issue. The AMA has lobbied to limit federal funding for medical residency. This is the bottleneck. The fundamental problem is that the US government should not be in the business of funding residencies to begin with. That should the on the hospitals. Right now the problem is that no hospitals want pay the 150k cost for residency when there is the option for the federal government or another hospital t…
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on “Why doctors in America earn so much”