Posted on 03/22/2010 12:18:39 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
What if you are planning to be a doctor right now?
Do you see medical or pharmaceutical research as a better alternative?
ah, a doc on Boortz a while back said if he were less than half way through med school he would be looking at veterinarian or dentistry???? Not anywhere near your daughter's interests; however...
Have her check carefully into Part D section 1709 which requires her to report all patient information to a health information clearing house (supposedly for best practice study) and would include patient’s “race, ethnicity, primary language, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, socioeconomic status, rural, urban, or other geographic setting, and any other population or subpopulation determined appropriate by the Secretary;”
Doctor/patient confidentiality is out the window. Big brother needs to know everything.
Also, in Section 2251 she’ll be required to attend “cultural and linguistic competency training programs”.
In section 2231, there is a requirement called a Public Health Workforce Corps. I haven’t had a chance to read much into this yet, but it seems that it is a requirement to provide service hours to this program.
I going to school be medical biller I don’t know that would effect my job choices
My daughter is a third year medical student now. God knows what’s in that bill, but I suspect they will be controlling what doctors earn now which will lead to our best and brightest not wanting a medical career anymore as well as many docs retiring early. Over the years we’re going to have second rate doctors with the abilities of your plumber. My daughter says her colleagues talk about academia and boutique medicine.
“Do you see medical or pharmaceutical research as a better alternative?”
If she is that smart, tell her to get an MBA from an Ivy League school and go work on Wall Street, any decent investment banker can retire by the time a doctor is finishing training.
WOW congrat to your daughter on that
My SIL is in her 3rd year of medical school right now. She HATES Obama. I asked her about the bill and she didn’t seem too thrilled but did find solace in the fact that government is going to pay off her student loans. Atleast that what she thinks.
Who wants to have to maintain a 3.6 GPA, spend $100,000+ (nursing, $300,000+ MD,)etc. to work at the DMV?!!
Also, anyone who is naive enough to assume that medical personnel salaries will not be “addressed” by Washington as a matter of cost savings is not smart enough to be in medicine....:(
Thanks :)
Funny, though, the passage of this bill is the first time she’s doubted her career choice
Re the aforementioned section 2231- subsection 340L seems to state that professionals will be part of this and could be relocated to whenever the corps deems a need exists. In other words, if Podunk, Iowa is short of doctors, they could move her there even if her family all lives in Miami, Florida.
She voted Republican, of course.
Academia already pays like crap. A doctor at an academic institution will earn about 1/2 what they would in private practice, even less than they would at a VA hospital, depending on specialty.
The govt will if she is going into a high needs area. General surgery, OB/GYN, Family Doc — all areas of high needs and all eligible for reimbursement.
Anesthesiology and Cardiology? Not so much
Well...does she WANT to be a slave to the federal givernment?
Doesn’t it feel like we all are sometimes?
I foresee a big demand for coroners, or possibly battlefield medics.
Feels like we are headed that way but I would not encourage anyone to go into medicine at this point.
“Out with the old doctors. In with the new.” - Stalin
Whenever I talk with any parent who has a child in med school I tell them, so you kid will be a government worker right?
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