PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Dr. Pranayjit Adsule, Psychiatrist at Jacobi Medical Center
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Dr. Pranayjit Adsule, a psychiatrist at Jacobi Medical Center, testifies about severe staffing shortages in the psychiatry department and the challenges in recruiting and retaining doctors. He emphasizes the need for fair compensation and suggests using external resources to address the issue.
- Highlights a dramatic reduction in psychiatrists: from 12 to 3 full-time doctors in the inpatient unit over 10 years
- Reports 62 doctor vacancies at Jacobi Medical Center
- Suggests using physician compensation reports like MGMA to determine fair market value for doctor pay
Pranayjit Adsule
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Yes.
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Hi.
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My name is.
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I'm a psychiatrist at Jacobi Medical Center, and, I don't wanna take too much of your time, but thank you for giving us this opportunity.
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I just wanna voice, the same concerns that my colleagues have, said before me and as well as the other, allies and support, supportive organizations and members of the community that have spoken for us.
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Just wanted to bring up that in Jacoby, I I worked at the in the psychiatry department for 10 years.
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When I worked when I started working there, there were 10, there were 12 psychiatrists in the inpatient unit where we take care of the most severely mentally ill, sometimes violent, sometimes high risk patients.
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And currently, there are 3 full time psychiatrists there, and, we've been struggling to recruit and retain doctors for all of this time.
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In the psychiatric emergency room, we are 4 doctors short.
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We don't have a director.
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We don't have an associate director.
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We have to find a solution to these issues.
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There is a there are physician compensation reports that are available online.
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One of them, for example, is MGMA.
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There's a lot of data about, what the fair market value is.
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If it's not vacancies, it it could be that.
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It could be a lot of other things that we should look into to see if doctors are fairly paid.
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If we need to, we can get external, organizations to to sort of help with this if it's it's that much of a problem.
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And we were able to find, we were able to ask doctors at medical center about the vacancies, and we have currently 62 vacancies at medical center from, doctor's report that we could get on our own.
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So that's the situation that we're in, and I really hope that the council here is able to
Mitch Katz
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Thank you.
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Your time has expired.
Pranayjit Adsule
4:07:00
Thank you.