Almost all of the city employees received a 1.5 percent increase this year, and to give any more to the appointees would be a slap in the face to the 6,000 employees. |
At the same time, we didn't want it to cost them more money, because we're very worried about the high cost of medical education and the level of medical student debt. |
I think that what Capital and Coast is relying on is probably having someone on call rather than on duty. Unfortunately on call doesn't do the trick. |
It's an attempt to start treating medical students like graduate students, which they are. |
We are short-staffed now so any increase in load will make it worse. |
We want to keep the best students in Minnesota. |
We're kind of floating along, waiting to find out what happens next. |
Wellington has improved things since then. We now have a specialist on in the evening but we still don't have one at night [overnight]. |