My husband has an amazing profession, he is a psychiatrist. It helps people to live well with pills, and I am - fine. I noticed that the husband works in the Netherlands, very important for the next narrative, because in Germany, where he worked before, I also live well, but not so well.
Maybe you notice that I travel a lot. This is my passion, I can not do anything and I will not do it. Surprisingly, I can travel the world not only because my husband's work is well paid, but also because he just needs to travel!The fact is that in order to obtain a license for medical practice, not enough to pass the exam for a specialist, doctors should continue to improve their qualifications, including traveling to conferences and symposia.License is granted for five years, to extend it, in addition to other conditions unrelated to travel, you need to collect 200 items "congress". Each four-day congress or symposium brings 16 points.Imagine how much you need to learn? No time to work! If I'm being sarcastic, then just a little. Of course it may be an accident on some online courses to collect items, but not make the weather, and not much available. Needless to say, most congresses are held outside the Netherlands, and indeed, if there is an opportunity to study somewhere in Tokyo or Paris, who will go to Maastricht?
Participation in all congresses cost money - from 500 to 1500 euros, plus fees for tickets, hotels and meals. Doctors who work in hospitals, say, for salary, have a budget. This is about 4000 euros per year. Money is targeted, they are not given anything, but only after the fact, when the presentation checks, tickets, bills from the restaurant and so on. If you do not spend it, they will disappear, like any other unused budget money. Also, no one expects that the doctor will spend at his congress on legal leave - a couple of unprofitable work days! For this special day allocated. Not many - only five in a year, but, in fact, no one follows the number, you can spend ten.
If the doctor has a private practice, or he is a freelancer, like my husband, there is no budget like that, but other nuances seem to me prefer. Funds spent for study can be eliminated from taxes! In addition to paying to participate in the congress, the cost of tickets for airplanes, hotel accommodation, dining at restaurants, including a bottle of wine for dinner, was abolished ...Frankly, you can eat anything for dinner, it's about personal tastes and preferences and does not care about anyone. If the doctor is a smoker, then a pack of cigarettes a day is added to the list, which I think is totally illogical and a waste of taxpayer money! The restaurant - okay, you can not cook the soup at the hotel, but smoking on the ride is just like at home!
The cultural aspect of physician development as an individual is very important, so the cost of visiting nearby towns, museums and carnivals can also enter safely in the SPT.
And now - cherry drunk on the cake! A freelancer can bring one of his employees to the congress! Hard to say, as a person, but at least an interpreter, not at all interested in anyone, but guess who the worker is with my husband? That's right, me! And you think I just flew around the world? No, I'm working! In addition to jokes, I also did some documentation and helped prepare papers for the same congress. Of course, I did not participate in the seminar, but the meaning?But also from the rest of the participants no one needs a permanent presence in all lectures, it could be selective.
It may be necessary to explain what a freelance doctor is.
This is not a wage expert with hospital guarantees, leave, pension payments, and so on, but a "free artist" who contracts with the clinic for several hours a week. Financially far more profitable, but also risky as well. He is sick, rested, everything at his own expense. Insurance and pension contributions are also her.
Even so, despite the risks, more and more Dutch doctors start swimming for free, taking advantage of specialist shortages in the labor market. Especially in the demand of psychiatrists and anesthesiologists. Will you know what kind of golden mountain the Dutch promised when they tried to lure my husband from Germany! Specific information is discussed separately, and the default bid is a paid step, help finding apartments and buying furniture,and most importantly, 40% of salary is exempt from tax during the first ten years of work! Roughly, you get a hundred thousand gross - out of sixty thousand you pay taxes. He is not small in the Netherlands, as much as 52%!
So, the more you can eliminate the taxes, the more fun - you get a mini vacation for half price and the necessary items in addition. Or vice versa. And frankly, we tried! True, while our little children, my husband, the poor, went to the conference alone and did not see anything interesting. Because of the culture, so does the scientific part of the journey to be carefully prepared. So, he, but did not really see, my husband Japan, Suriname, Dubai, Hong Kong ...
He does not even need to remember it! In Nice, he too and initially wanted to leave on the second trip. And he said: "There is nothing good there! Dedki on" Maserati ", women with French bulldogs on British embankments, cruises and sea, And in Monaco also, nothing can be done - narrow, at home to each other printed and the casino! "
