Controversy Over Part Time Doctors
September 16th, 2011Karen Sibert’s recent op-ed in the New York Times has resulted in a heated discussion over physicians who choose to work part-time. I submitted the following letter to the editor in response:
Karen Sibert offers a disturbing value judgment on doctors practicing part-time. As a radiologist and a mother of two, my personal decision to work fewer hours during a fraction of my career is no one’s business aside from my family and my employer. As to the claim that I owe something to the government because Medicare subsidized hospitals during my training,
