I suspect soon the medical profession will become like the military....you sign up and get your medical education paid, but in return you will go where they send you for your first 10 years.
“I suspect soon the medical profession will become like the military....you sign up and get your medical education paid, but in return you will go where they send you for your first 10 years.”
Those programs have existed for a long time. The problem is that there is a heck of a lot of training required after medical school, depending on what you wind up doing. From the day I stepped into medical school it was 13 years before I completed all the training I did to do what I do, 9 of those after I completed medical school. If I had gone the military route, my payback time wouldn’t have started until after those 13 years. I feel privileged being a doc. Always have, but it was a pretty bad investment of my time when looked upon economically. A good part of those 9 years when I was getting advanced training I was moonlighting to pay for loans I’d taken out.
Honestly, I don’t care anymore. I’m just tired of being characterized as a villain, most often by people who have never worked that hard. What’s the point? I would never not do my best for a patient, but the joy is out of it in a big way.
“I suspect soon the medical profession will become like the military”
I really think it’ll be more like it was (maybe still is?) in Russia. Children will be given basic placement/IQ testing, then the government will decree the kid’s future, and they will be trained, groomed, and assigned a career. The way they handle athletes, etc.