surgeon working for HCA - General Surgeon HCA Healthcare Employee Review

1.0
2 Mar 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great coworkers. I really enjoyed the people I worked with. Because the East Florida division is such a poorly run organization turn over is very high. No one stays for more than a couple of years especially among physicians. Because there are so few doctors willing to work here there is an incredible diversity of patients to see. I had a very interesting and diverse practice. I was forced to leave because of the abusive practices of the administration.

Cons

They are a sweatshop for doctors. The pay is far below the national average. They promised to pay me for call, then refused to pay me after the work was done. As a surgeon I have taken between 14 to 18 24 hour call shifts per month. It is an unreasonable requirement. They greatly understaff the OR so that it is impossible to get cases on in a reasonable time. I had 1 patient which was left waiting for 5 days just trying to get into the operating room. It was a terrible experience. I will never work for HCA again under any circumstance.

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Cons

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Pros

There some flexibility with scheduling and they let you pick up as many shifts as you want and pretty much your own schedule.

Cons

Very poorly managed, chronically understaffed but managers are dismissive and deny it. The support from staff is inconsistent, the staff nurses are either fresh new grads or very bitter nurses who don’t want to help and expect you to handle everything by yourself as a tech. Most nurses here are PRN’s on contracts that get floated so it’s really hard to expect consistency in the staff you work with and build trusting relationships. Management will promise to train you as a unit secretary but will never follow up. They also agree to help you get opportunities for learning and growth but refuse to follow up or forget about it altogether, despite reminders. It’s not a priority. If your goal is to grow and learn more this is not the place. It’s running on fumes at 95% of the time. Very high turnover, we struggle to keep staff. They’ll call you in to pick up when they’re understaffed with no incentive or something minimal like “swag” (some gear). Very poorly compensated and you will not be appreciated for the hard work you do. Also it took 2 months for them to get me started despite numerous attempts to reach the HR, Management etc.

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