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Now that I am more engaged on the issue, I am seeing this more than ever.
One of my favorite colleagues, an oncologist about five years out, has burned out and quit rather suddenly. She is about three or four years out of training, with three small children, and has acquired the caseload of two other female colleagues who left to relocate to be closer to family over the last 18 months. That left her as the only female oncologist on our staff (read: she gets all the breast CA referrals, in addition to her share of the general oncology mix, as well as any women who would prefer a female), and she was getting crushed.
She is smart, hard working personable, and very collegial. I really enjoyed discussing cases with her because I always learned something, and she never pushed to hard to do something Interventional that was dangerous or impractical (unlike some of her colleagues). I was very disappointed to learn this today, and I was equally disappointed with others’ responses.
The Admins, who should have seen this coming and prevented it, were angry that she is leaving with little notice (3 weeks).
And one of her partners, whom I cornered today in our department, blamed it on “family issues”. If there were “family issues”, it was because she was working at the hospital until 11 pm every night! What BS!
One of my favorite colleagues, an oncologist about five years out, has burned out and quit rather suddenly. She is about three or four years out of training, with three small children, and has acquired the caseload of two other female colleagues who left to relocate to be closer to family over the last 18 months. That left her as the only female oncologist on our staff (read: she gets all the breast CA referrals, in addition to her share of the general oncology mix, as well as any women who would prefer a female), and she was getting crushed.
She is smart, hard working personable, and very collegial. I really enjoyed discussing cases with her because I always learned something, and she never pushed to hard to do something Interventional that was dangerous or impractical (unlike some of her colleagues). I was very disappointed to learn this today, and I was equally disappointed with others’ responses.
The Admins, who should have seen this coming and prevented it, were angry that she is leaving with little notice (3 weeks).
And one of her partners, whom I cornered today in our department, blamed it on “family issues”. If there were “family issues”, it was because she was working at the hospital until 11 pm every night! What BS!
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