So discouraging your son from medicine is a good thing? And don’t call me out on this one. I’ve been there and done that, with a ENT father who discouraged us in the 1970s. I think it’s wrong to discourage a bright young person from pursuing medicine. It’s the only career that will never go into recession, it’s often very rewarding from a non-monetary perspective, it’s a career that is respected by most lay people, and it pays fairly well. I know the ropes, coming from a medical family (grandfather, father, uncles, cousins) and with a general surgeon wife who was something of a pioneer in finishing 5 years of general surgery training in 1985 (an arrogant men’s club, for sure) and practicing now for 22 years.
Yes, there are greedy SOB lawyers, liberal know-nothing judges, ignorant juries, and the rest of the litigious society. And, we face the specter of leftwing ideologues like Hillary Clinton trying to impose their will on the majority of America in the interests of the few, which will be a disaster. However, in my experience, if you are good, listen well, and take care with your patients you will do very well. Money isn’t everything, and we desperately need physicians who are actual Americans - as opposed to the plethora of FMGs from India, Pakistan, and elsewhere - to carry on the proud traditions of medicine in America.
I was just going to say that we should be able to get a great number of sugeons from Pakistan or Palestine, countries like that.
Eliminate the utterly unconstitutional residency system, go to a free market for graduate medical training, and the problem will be solved. Of course, socialized medicine can’t function without the abusive overworking of young doctors staffing hospitals. I’m not holding my breath for this to change, since the existing population of MDs are overwhelmingly either pro-socialized medicine in one form or another, or pro-hazing in that they stubbornly insist that requiring insane work hours of residents is “good for their training” despite reams of medical and other research literature showing otherwise. It’s getting really scary to be a patient in need of hospital care.
” well. Money isn’t everything, and we desperately need physicians who are actual Americans - as opposed to the plethora of FMGs from India, Pakistan, and elsewhere - to carry on the proud traditions of medicine in America.
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You hit a nerve with that one. Many positions in Med school and other required positions to become a doctor are held for foreigners. I know of American med students who have been passed by for foreign students. I know of hospital positions held for foreigners.