Posted on 03/24/2010 10:50:12 AM PDT by iowamark
Yep. And mandatory “service” since dear leader took over student loans as it appears mandatory service is required for medical students getting centrally controlled student loans.
If he has the money to get his degree, great. Then he can go to work for the government as a policy guy.
Otherwise, he might want to use his brains to figure out how to make money that the govenment cannot steal, in other words, how not to be a government slave.
That is exactly what he, his dad and his friends who were planning to attend medical school are working on now. What are they going to do instead?
They are all in love with the profession of medicine and he has worked very hard to get into medical school. He’s currently stunned. The good news is that he is smart enough to do anything he wants to do.
If he and his friends can afford med school without big bills, go to med school. Like nursing school it is a great steppingstone to other careers from writing to product developement, to social policy, to politics...
Medical school is not law school. Too much dedication to the art is required to get through medical school. It is not a stepping stone educational process. Plus, there is a big chance, once the socialists see the exodus, they could force doctors to practice through a draft to that civil corps Obama slipped into the health care bill.
Marxists are going to take a wrecking ball to medicine production and medical instruments enterprises to lower costs because they want to control those industries and they have severely underestmated the cost of this “free” health care.
I think the young men involved are wise to come up with plan B. Maybe the Supreme court will ditch the bill this year before they have to ditch plan A - medical school.
The Marxists are really making their mark on the nation.
Medical school is not law school. Too much dedication to the art is required to get through medical school. It is not a stepping stone educational process. Plus, there is a big chance, once the socialists see the exodus, they could force doctors to practice through a draft to that civil corps Obama slipped into the health care bill.
I disagree. I think that it is often a steppping stone degree. In boston recently at a conference and the MD was a minimum degree there. Lots of MD Engineers, Public health and more. Very small number of MDs practicing.
I saw a medical resident yesterday who was obviously “post-call”, who looked absolutely dejected. I was in my last year of medical school in 1993 when the Hillarycare boondoogle was being proposed. I was FURIOUS that Washington could dictate what specialty a student could pursue in residency. Thankfully, we dodged that. These medical students/residents aren’t so lucky.
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Back in ‘50s the government was largely out of it and the medical profession
was so respected and loved. People paid their bills and gave gifts
to their physicians.
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I got my mother a book about notable homes in the area of north-central
Oklahoma where our family lived until about 2000.
There was a note about a home that a doctor owned; it was very nice
and certainly a cut above the average dwelling in the early 1900s.
After the death of the doc, the family found a little log he had
kept during the decades of his medical practice.
And it was full of barter items that towns-folk and area farmers had
given to him in payment for his services; e.g., two dozen eggs or
some fresh beef or chickens.
I suspect he surely wasn’t able to keep this secret from his spouse,
but apparently it was a revelation about the interconnectedness
of physicians and their patients in “the good old days” (and I’m
not being facetious/sarcastic on that point).
Too bad the old doctor’s log isn’t required reading at medical schools
these days. Even if barter is rare these days...and would be hounded
as income by the soon-to-be-hired 17,000 new IRS agents that will
check up on our compliance with Obamacare.
Well, each to his own.
If health care is a “right”, then the medical profession is servitude.
“...it was a revelation about the interconnectedness
of physicians and their patients in “the good old days” (and I’m not being facetious/sarcastic on that point)....”
When I was a kid our basement often had three our four country hams hanging in it that were gifts to my Daddy from his patients. Sometimes patients would pay on a bill for an extended period and his office would forgive the balance. This was not really olden times as Daddy was a specialist surgeon in the age of television.
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