3 answers
Aimee’s Answer
Otherwise I agree with the above. Hours, workload, and weekend/holiday schedules are less strenuous at clinics.
Katrina’s Answer
There are a lot of things to thinkg about when entering the healthcare world as a physician, today there are more regulations and requirements then ever placed on them. With that said it is also important for me to acknowledge that hospitals have become a billion dollar business with this business comes some excellent perks:
1) Insurance
2) Networking
3) Retirement Planning
4) Job Stability
5) Support staff (HIM, Coders, schedulers, billing analysts, nurses, patient technicians, janitors...)
The largest disadvantage is that hospitals are open 24 hours a day 365 days a year and they expect their employees to be available unless they are on vacation so that leads to quite a bit of time off being used for simple weekends off or needing to leave work early.
Richard’s Answer
However we also work at the whim of hospital administrators who care more about profit than patient care sometimes. If I need new equipment in the interventional radiology suite, I need to make my case to bureaucrats who may not understand the technical aspects of the new device.