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Originally Posted by fmichael
But seriously, I was troubled by the high rate of discouragement, with or without healthcare reform:
I would not recommend medicine as a career, regardless of health reform: 36% Maybe it's nothing more than sampling bias, where these folks are already in a headhunter's database. What do you think? |
Mike,
I think it comes down to an increasing restriction of a doc's ability to treat a patient the way they learned in school and the increasing feeling of dissatisfaction and helplessness as such. Now, a doc must always use a particular insurance company's guidelines, codes, be subject to utilization and peer review and follow ever changing rules or risk not getting paid.
All these negative aspects for practitioners already exists because of HMO's, UR, etc., and if/when national health care hits it will be like an HMO on steroids, run by the government, where there will be no incentive for a doc to practice what he learned, rather just follow the rules on how to restrict and reduce care based on cost, or risk financial and/or professional sanctions.
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