Career question

[Ron61]

Originally Posted by joe g

being in medical sales for the past 30 years you rarely see any downturn. Even now our sales continue to grow, if slower than in the past. I HAVE NEVER heard of a RT getting laid off, EVER. Only thing that would bother me is its a nasty messy job as far as working in a hospital etc. What i mean is the lungs get messy as you no and for me i could not stand all the crap coming up from the therapy. Rightnow with all of us getting older the need will only get greater.
joeg

Joe,

You have not been to this hospital here that has had problems since the late 70s and should have been turned into a housing development. Sued numerous times for non required surgeries, including heart bypasses and transplants. Four Administrators just vanished without anyone even knowing they were quiting. ALL personnel including doctors , nurses and trainees have been fired at least twice. The latest mess just this past 8 months is some outfit from another area bought it and was going to make it a for profit only one and they would not accept any of the insurance companies that people around are insured with so that got rid of the working people. And once again, they fired every person working there and started over with their own people. Three weeks ago their own Administrator they brought in just didn't show up for work and they have no idea of where he is. In the meantime the other hospital has grown into a virtual city and is hiring good people. So don't make a blanket statement about no RT ever getting laid off. I admit this is an exception to ever hospital know to mankind, but things do happen to all type of people. In this case rightfully so. Two doctors that I used to play racquetball with worked there and both quit long before the crap hit the fan and left for other areas and both told me that that place was going to be a mess due to their ethics and practices.

Ron