Higher malpractice costs
Lawyers taking more of physicians' profits
Obama possibly turning our health care into a socialist health care..reducing profits of doctors greatly..giving them less incentives to perform highly expensive medical procedures
Nurses getting more medical rights which doctors at one time only had
not to mention 8 years of having no life and then 4 years of basically no pay for 80 hour work weeks..only to find that your salary isnt the best and you have 300k in loans to pay off
Can someone still give me a good reason why anyone should want to go to medical school? Like, why do parents still want their kids to become doctors so badly? especially indian and asian parents?
like if parents really wanted their kids to become rich, why not encourage going to harvard business school and going to management consulting or graduating from harvard or yale law..those actually make a lot more....seriously medicine seems so overrated..people are not worth serving..theyre selfish and bitter.
not to mention they may sue you if they dont like you as a doctor
Aleksander R
you hit on the answer to your own question in the 3rd sentence- being in the medical field (as a doctor or a surgeon) pays extremely well, but it does so at the cost of people's health.
teachers should have the same kind of incentive to perform "highly" as you say.
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because doctors are successful (usually)
and they get paid very well and have a high status.
and those things are important to indians.
i'm an indian and my parents wanted me to become a doctor too :)
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Rebecca
My parents supported me in all my choices, I could have had a free ride to Harvard and declined, and I personally decided I wanted to be a doctor and study in Canada.
Also, nurses are highly trained professionals and anyone who's spent more than 15 minutes in a hospital should understand that they basically run the hospitals and the smart doctors do what the nurses say. Nurse practitioners go through as much schooling as a doctor does, and yes you can be a Doctor of Nursing. Nurse practitioners are also able to do most of what a doctor does, there are just a few gray areas around their scope of practice.
"Doctor" sounds good. People like to hear it, and people like to be it because it automatically grants them respect. If someone introduces you as "Dr. Flannigan" they think you're important. For all they know you could have a phD in English. Title is very important, and people like to be the best they can be.
If you do well in medical school there is no reason to have 300k in loans. There are millions of dollars worth of scholarships and bursaries available, and not all of them are based on academic success. If you planned for a post secondary education and saved with RESPs or something similar, the costs don't hit you very hard. And if you can't afford to go to medical school, don't. I came out with only $ 20, 000 in loans and that was easily paid off within a few years, and I'm just your average middle-upper class girl. My parents aren't millionaires.
8 years of no life isn't necessarily true. The people I went to school with could likely drink you under the table, and trust me they know how to party. But they also know how to be studious and meticulous when it is important. If you enjoy learning, which anyone who wants to be a doctor should, those 8 years aren't ''no life'' at all. It's a world of information being given to you every day. Residency is a great hands on experience that shapes you as a person. Seeing as most people do their practicums at absolutely no pay, a ''little'' paycheck is pretty darn good. And let's be honest, you're still making a heck of a lot more than the people waiting your tables. Doctors and nurses alike can easily make a 6 figure salary annually if they're willing to put it OT.
Here's why I wanted to go to medical school:
1) I want to help people, and I want to do it well. I'm so tired of hearing about 'oh my doctor is an idiot, blah blah'. I want to be the doctor that people say 'oh she was so GREAT' about. If you're going to do something, you should do it right.
2) Having watched my sister in the ICU for 9 weeks inspired me. The doctors and nurses were AMAZING and kept her alive. When you watch people around you on their death bed, you want to be there to help them. Sure, the other people in the hospital aren't your family. But they're someones little sister, or big brother, or mother, or uncle, etc. If they die, a family suffers. I want to be the one to save them.
3) That 'thank you' keeps you going. Sure, you'll have bad day after bad day, and if you work in pediatrics it's pretty darn hard, but there's that ONE kid who pulls through when nobody thought they could, and that keeps you going until the next one comes around.
As for encouraging their kids to go to Yale or Harvard....most people can't afford it. Know what else? If you do well at any other university you're just as likely to get hired. If you scrape out of Harvard with a 2.3 GPA they're probably going to take the kid from California with a 4.0. My two close friends have degrees in business management and law, and guess who're between jobs. If you want to be rich get into oil. That's where the real money is.
Also, people can't sue you just because they don't "like" you. You have to have violated some laws or codes of ethics before they can take legal action. Do your homework before you make erronious claims.
You're the kind of person that's not worth serving.
Genane F
I just want my kids to follow their dreams and be happy. They know they always have a place to call home.
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