[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee

Boston - my doctors were at Beth Israel in Boston. I had surgery there, more years ago than I care to remember, and one of the nurses told me she was making $38 per hour! That is why you have good support staff in the big cities - decent pay! Our pay scale in this area is disgraceful for anyone trying to make a career, but if you are a retired nurse from one of the major hospitals who just wants to do a few hours to keep busy, the local pay scale is acceptable. I've had two major surgical procedures here in our local hospital and both times the nurses supporting my surgeon were retirees from Chicago General, a Boston hospital and the Mayo Clinic. All worked only with this surgeon.

Like I said in my post, most of the nurses that I've run into have been excellent. It's the rest of the office staff that seems to be clueless. when I call my doctor's office now, I ask to speak to one of his nurses because no one else seems to have any idea what I'm talking about.

What do nurses make around here. I know when I had my first back surgery at Mass General back in 1990, my nurses were making $42.00 per hour. But they were orthopedic specialists. I don't know that general nurses were making that kind of money.