LOL!
Let me see, you're saying that the radiology machines he calibrates will (1) be outsourced to someplace like India presumably and (2) the hospital will consider it cheaper to fly thousands of patients on a 48 hour New Jersey to Bangalore roundtrip flight on a regular monthly basis for radiology treatments?
I will make the rational counterassertion that the hospital will continue to treat patients living in New Jersey at its New Jersey facility.
I'll let him know that you think his hospital will start flying his patients 12,000 miles every month for their treatments.
He'll have a hearty chuckle.
and all his work and sacrifices are set at naught.
Even though your wacky scenario is ridiculous on its face, he continues to look ahead - contemplating a medical career as an oncologist. As I said, he's no slacker. The guy thinks big and works hard.
Just be careful with preaching the Free Market Unholy Gospel to him at that time or you might became unholy martyr.
Don't project your view that economics is religion onto me or him.
We're both adults and we both know that you need to keep learning and striving as long as you live - and the more economic freedom we have to accomplish those goals the better.
Economics is a means, not an end.
Uhhhnnnhh...
The reference was not to those who treat patients with radiation, but those who READ xrays, etc.--that work is being done offshore.
Further, heart surgery is ALSO moving offshore. An insurer can actually pay 1st-class airfare round trip to India and SAVE about 50% of the cost of bypasses.
A college friend is an architect. Archit jobs are being shipped to India as we speak. American arch's design the outside and Indian architects design the inside, structure, plumbing, heating, materials, building codes etc- basically the meat of the project and where all the money is made for arch firms because it is the hardest and most time consuming.
No jobs are safe.