I strongly advise friends around the world NOT to do what the US has done, putting for-profit corporations in charge of health care.
It has been a total failure.
@jrtaff@MilkmanAlTV@olsonplanner Insurance is 1 of about 100 cuprite factors and each has multiple ways if terrorizing physicians and preventing them from actually caring for patients
@Brad48656070@taylorwhitney88@tosc411@olsonplanner What you fail to realize is the work you do as a resident makes the hospital approx 1 mill in revenue annually …also how does that support high tuition your not making much sense…No one owns that knowledge most medical students are teaching themselves from books
@Brad48656070@taylorwhitney88@tosc411@olsonplanner Part of the investment in this case is the difficulty of the job …not to mention the level of intelligence needed…while in residency the difficulty of the job and studying …. You give up your entire 20’s and 30’s in opportunity cost can you imagine what that amount would be
Shared from FB: a CVS minute clinic was diagnosing every patient w/ “Flu C”. when a curious doctor called to question this, she learned she was diagnosing the control line “C” as a positive flu test. This is corporate America’s great plan to disrupt medicine. @pppforpatients
@Brad48656070@taylorwhitney88@tosc411@olsonplanner It’s difficult with the character limitation I would say go shadow a physician for a day one in a hospital one in a ER one in private practice one in trauma you’ll …. Starting a business is cake
@jrtaff@MilkmanAlTV@olsonplanner Some of us have no debt and still don’t find it worthwhile mostly because we don’t actually get to practice what we learn…some moron who works for insurance reading a checklist tells us what we can do to help our ailing patients when we know it wont work that’s medicine
@jrtaff@olsonplanner I have a similar debt load and payoff term. From a financial standpoint, going into medicine is 100% *not* worthwhile, in my opinion. Plus you sacrifice your 20s. "It's all about patients" only gets you so far.
A physician I know just paid off their student loans, 14 years after starting medical school.
Amount borrowed: 345,000
Cumulative interest paid: 247,296
Effective average interest rate: 5.12%
That’s $115.90 per day for 14 years to fund their education.