Should You Pick Up That Extra Shift? It May Not Pay Off

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/should-you-pick-extra-shift-it-may-not-pay-2026a10010hg?src= For the first 4 years of his career in emergency medicine, Alex Mohseni, MD, occasionally took on extra shifts at the Virginia hospital where he worked. He might cover for a colleague whose child was sick or work a shift that didn’t have an assigned doctor at all. “I was young and had some medical school debt,” said Mohseni. “I didn’t realize doctors were selling shifts to me because they were burnt out. Seven or 8 years later, I was the one handing off my shifts to other people.”