I was with my wife throughout most of this process. I wasn't there in undergrad, but we were married when she applied to med school and I was there when she applied to residencies and matched at Duke. It's a long journey and a TON of work. When the rest of the world is celebrating, you're working. But it was worth it. What's scary is the idea of going through it all, amassing all of that debt, losing all of that time and then the govt interjecting and sayin that physicians are paid too much and capping earnings or some such nonsense. I could see that happening. Good luck on the journey. Let me know if you ever need a sounding board. But you are right, it will be worth it.
Thank you. I’m lucky in the way that I currently have the ability to get through most of the process more or less debt free. It takes a lot of pressure off the entire endeavor. Without that worry, it’s far easier to accept the possibility of significantly lower raises should something like that happen. I currently practice medicine under a socialized system and I wouldn’t mind to continue. It’s fantastic not having to worry about how much my treatments will cost to patients
Get a grip. What happens is that the government decides that the private sector can best determine what market rates ought to be so they deregulate insurance such that the industry can consolidate into four or five players who collude to ensure that the rates offered for basic care are commensurate with the lowest possible qualified attendant doing the work such that general practitioners and non-specialists can't be reimbursed for the costs of their basic supplies. Why, exactly, is there a "physicians shortage?" What's scary is the idea of going through it all, amassing all of that debt, losing all of that time and then the govt interjecting and sayin that physicians are paid too much and capping earnings or some such nonsense.
