Massachusetts General Hospital reviews

Benefits for postdocs close to none and they still manage to eliminate any existing benefits. HR will forget to put your yearly raise in effect if you don't ask them to do it by yourself, given how pathetic the base pay is to start with, plus the inflation now, I just want to get out as soon as possible.

Hospital management is incompetent to the point of being pathological in nature. Horrible pay (unless you've worked there since the '90s), horrible culture. It's unusual to encounter someone in management that is actually talented at it (there are a few though) because mostly it's just sad how out of touch and cynical and just plain not smart about finances they are. Also the nursing culture (RN not NP because NPs are physicians and are not doing the nursing, they are seeing patients as physicians) is sad. I know RNs don't get the appreciation they deserve and are treated like they don't matter, but when the departments I've worked in do get a good nurse who works hard and takes care of the patients and the patients notice and express their appreciation, the other nurses run them out of town. I've seen my relatives get much better nursing care at Mt Auburn Hospital, for example. And while working at MGH, I've even seen a bad nurse "sell" the patient that they're actually doing the best for them and the patient believing it when I know that they're NOT doing the best for the patient or even doing their job, in a few cases...! When the patients figure it out they leave and go to another practice and I've never seen the management at MGH ever figure it out why they left. Sure the doctors are the best, but bad nursing makes patients want to get away from there and not come back.