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Thanks for using your platform to highlight this. I'm a fellow in Buffalo and wish I would not have applied here. The deceptively high cost of living and poor healthcare provider by the program has made training unnecessarily difficult for me and my family. If I wasn't allowed to moinlight pgy-5 and on, I would have had to drop out.

I recently graduated from USC residency, and we were on the verge of striking in our second to last year for these same reasons! At the end of the day they decided to give into our demands (literally 2 days before we were set to strike) because they knew that LA county hospital would not be able to function without its residents. So proud of these residents for standing up for themselves. If we don’t look out for ourselves nobody else is going to, especially not these greedy hospitals.

Resident in Indonesia : YOU GUYS GET PAID????😮

He is a cutie. Love the tattoos.

Low income threshold around Buffalo area is 54250

I had no idea this was happening!! Rooting for them

not him bringing up maslows needs *mcat has come to haunt me*. truly a sucky situation tho

Thank you for drawing attention to this!! I pray that they see some real change!

I'm a surgical resident in Quebec, Canada. PGY-1s make 49,000 CAD per year which is ~36,000 USD per year. Considering I work >80h/week I'm paid less than half minimum wage.. residents need to be compensated fairly for the hard work they put in. Starting with minimum wage would be a great victory here in Canada..

is it normal for residents to be paid by a shell company? that seems hella shady

Cheryl Klass $631,169 senior VP of operations... imagine being over payed at Buffalo General but your job is disposable.

I'm not a doctor, but I think the medical training system could use some change. These resident doctors are extremely well educated and highly skilled. Yet they're being paid half of what an engineering manager might make. It seems to me that this is the result of residency being required for a license. I've heard proposals that nurses, nurse-practitioners, etc should be allowed to practice medicine independently to try and reduce costs. It's probably a better idea to give residents more freedom to practice outside of hospitals first, with sufficient measures in place to ensure adequate safety/quality of care. That should also give them more leverage while negotiating.

I was in the military for 7 years and made a sick $48k the last year I left. Idk dude seems like it’s kinda blown out of proportion with all this risking their lives stuff

Residents are doctors. They should have a good salary!!!

Yikes. "Risking their lives".... I appreciated the humor on this channel but dude you are out of touch AF. And the whole movement for better pay in residency would do a lot better if we didn't have so many fanatically stupid left-wing residents poisoning the well.

I assume you mean medical residents and maybe chill out with the opening

Woahhhhh you’ve really made it

I'm rooting for you, brave Buffalo residents! You deserve so much more than this shitty treatment! Thank you for bringing attention to this serious issue! I hope their strike inspires other shitty residency programs to be better! Also, thank you for showing me how important it is to choose my residencies carefully. Totally not applying to Buffalo.

I'm not sure if its the angle of the video or what, but Preston's jawline is looking super swole in this video, he's evolved to Giga Preston.

Can someone post a link to the podcast?

I trained at a program with a robust house officers association (aka union) and had better benefits (mileage reimbursement, parental leave, protection of off-hours, etc) than I do as an attending at the same institution and better pay compared to other programs in the area. It was amazing.

Ahem. NHS and the BMA need to take note. They let it slide for 15+ years and their union did nothing.

Thanks for talking about it! Wages haven’t risen to cost of living and working conditions in residency, especially after COVID have made us less safe snd more vulnerable in an already abusive time in training.

It’s a real shame when any healthcare worker at any respectable, prestigious healthcare institution has to worry about healthcare coverage for their own acute or chronic conditions (which by state and federal law, employees cannot be required to disclose) The fact that this is happening to residents and fellows in years-long training programs horrifies me. Did private equity / hedge funds buy out the supposedly public University at Buffalo ???

That’s a good shrink. Getting to the point

This is awesome. Would have no idea about this situation if I didn't see your video. Wishing them success!

Hell yeah brother. Workers in America gotta come together.

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University at* Buffalo. I hope they succeed. I'm applying this year and salary + benefits will influence my ROL.

We’re rooting for you buffalo

So what would be a fair wage for PA’s and residents? If they do all the work and just run it by the attending who gives their stamp and signs their attestation, should they be making attending salaries since they’re doing 95% of the job?

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Physician assistant student here. So proud of these residents. One of the reasons I chose PA school instead of med school, along with many others, is the current inhumane state of many residency programs. 60k/year when you are the one working the hardest for the longest hours, many times days on end straight, while being hundreds of thousands in debt still from med school, is ridiculous. Unsustainable to have a family, like you mentioned. You can hardly even live your own life. All the while the hospitals profit immensely from it, as the residents are essentially free labor, as the positions are medicare funded. They are probably the most profitable labor of any employee in the entire country. Even Amazon workers get paid out of the company's pocket that's profiting off of them. Unbelievable system that needs huge reform and it makes me so happy to see these resident's speaking up instead of giving into the pressure of having their spot or even career threatened

POWER TO THE PEOPLE. Money for baby docs, justice for residents.

Resident from Europe here, pay is surprisingly similar. Unions won't solve your problem, we have those. The real problem is, that you can't just leave the hospital and go into private practice until you're done with residency. So this is a high supply, low demand type of situation. The only real solution is to shorten residency (or split it) to allow anyone to leave the hospital as early as possible.

all power to the workers

Boomer docs: "This new generation of doctors is totally spineless...insurance companies and hospital admin are totally screwing this profession over and exploiting us...how can we fix this physician suicide and burnout epidemic?" **Residents unionize** Also Boomer docs: "WAIT, not like that!!"

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Thanks for broadcasting this Preston. I was going to apply to U Buff as I’m from Southwestern Ontario, but this information has made me think otherwise

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Honestly such brave folks. I hope this translates to widespread improvements in residency conditions and future resident/attending physicians unions

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If only doctors were this noble and risked their career and employment when the government and hospitals were mandating them, patients and the public to be injected with Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and J&J magic potion, maybe then I could care more. But as is, I couldn't care less.

I love videos like this! As an unlicensed doctor myself, its hood to hear the medical jargon in its proper context so I sound more legit!

Me, ortho, calling infection-bro about the 80 yo patient with urosepsis that has a lumbar compression fracture that is being treated conservatively😂

Oh my I should watch Preston on Dr G's knock knock

whats better than walking? Substance abuse for sure lmao

Now don't be confused by the primal scream of anguish. I love getting paged that some patient just said they didn't want the flu vaccine. At 3AM.

here i thought i was so innovative and subtle with the "my team wants your recommendations"