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3-22-10 | self

Posted on 03/22/2010 12:18:39 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA

What if you are planning to be a doctor right now?


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My daughter is in the final stages of preparing to be a doctor. She will take her MCAT this August and begin choosing a medical school at the beginning of the year.

Is there anything in the bill that she should know about to either cause her to change her mind or her field? Currently, she has two interests - cardiology or anesthesiology. Her plan is to make the decision after some additional exposure in medical school.

She is 100% not interested in OB/GYN, general practioner, general surgery, pediatrician, or psychiatrist (high need areas)

Anyone with any insights?

1 posted on 03/22/2010 12:18:39 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: SoftballMominVA

How did she vote?

Maybe a career change is to be advised. Doctors will be, if this law stands, nothing more than Gov’t kept slaves. IMHO


2 posted on 03/22/2010 12:21:04 PM PDT by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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To: SoftballMominVA

Maybe she could learn to be a plastic surgeon, give a Botox shot to (A Certain Politician) in the voice box. That’ll shut her up...


3 posted on 03/22/2010 12:21:43 PM PDT by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org)
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What if you are planning to be a doctor right now?

Then I hope you like punching a time clock because more than likely you're gonna end up working for minimum wage and getting paid by the hour.

4 posted on 03/22/2010 12:21:49 PM PDT by TheVitaminPress (as goes the Second Amendment . . . so goes the Constitution.)
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To: RoadGumby

She voted Republican, of course.


5 posted on 03/22/2010 12:21:56 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: SoftballMominVA

Doctors no longer have incentive to be the best. They are all the same now...cookie cutter government drones.


6 posted on 03/22/2010 12:23:12 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: SoftballMominVA

Better be looking at the cheapest medical school you can find ....

CHEAPEST & BEST MEDICAL SCHOOL in CARIB
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=511412


7 posted on 03/22/2010 12:23:36 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: SoftballMominVA

Step away from the table

Consider Farming and Large Animal Husbantry
Maybe Engineering, at least she will learn HOW to think

I would sooner go into Nursing than Medicine
At least the job is durable

...Spoken as one in Medicine for ~30 years...


8 posted on 03/22/2010 12:23:39 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: SoftballMominVA

For those of you that know me, yes, this is my daughter that graduated in 2008.

How did she get this far this fast? She carried in all of her liberal arts requirements, did summer sessions, and carried an overload all semesters. Her GPA is a 3.95 with only 1 A- in her major classes - majoring in Bio/Chem.

She’s going to get to take semester off this fall to travel to London for an internship, then back to the states to finish her degree and start choosing her med school.

And yes, it feels like it went really REALLY fast


9 posted on 03/22/2010 12:24:27 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: SoftballMominVA

Train Here, Work in best country you can find....


10 posted on 03/22/2010 12:24:35 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: SoftballMominVA

My sister was just accepted at a few medical schools including University of Michigan, UC San Diego, and UC Irvine. She is planning on attending Irvine if she doesn’t get accepted to UCLA. I will ask her. Hopefully, she will still make decent money since I am a cosigner on her college loans. :-(


11 posted on 03/22/2010 12:25:00 PM PDT by Smogger
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To: Lorianne

She would not be a doctor if she had to go to the Caribbean. Seriously, they are jokes, all of them


12 posted on 03/22/2010 12:25:07 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: HangnJudge

My daughter is wondering about continuing on in nursing given what happened yesterday. :(

Why do you think nursing is “durable”—just wondering as you have been in medicine a while....


13 posted on 03/22/2010 12:25:51 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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Plastic surgery.

That is if it still legal by that time.

14 posted on 03/22/2010 12:25:57 PM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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Don't be a doctor at all. It isn't worth the debt, years of work at little pay, the risk of being sued and the prospect of very little financial gain. Why would anyone want to work for our evil government?

Unfortunately my wife just finished her training in Hematology and Oncology a year ago. Our plant is to continue to live off of my income and save 100% of her income so she can retire when things get too bad. Terrible time to get into the field.

15 posted on 03/22/2010 12:26:39 PM PDT by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)
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To: bushwon

Good question — why is nursing ‘durable”

And I bet a lot of kids in pre-med tracks and nursing tracks are doing some thinking today.


16 posted on 03/22/2010 12:27:00 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: SoftballMominVA

Well, I believe when the costs of health care necessarily begin spiraling out of control, the government will impose price controls. I don’t see how doctors will be able to escape having their incomes capped.

And, if she takes her oaths seriously, she may eventually find herself in a dilemma where a one-size-fits-all government mandate prevents her from giving a patient exactly the treatment he needs.

Basically, if she’s going into doctoring because it’s a good (as in, lucrative) profession, she’d better reconsider.

If she’s doing it to help people, than she can still do that. It will be more bureaucratic and frustrating that what doctors have faced in the past, but God knows we patients will be needing more help than ever under this new health regime.


17 posted on 03/22/2010 12:27:03 PM PDT by kevao
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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 now 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.


18 posted on 03/22/2010 12:27:15 PM PDT by rushmom
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To: SoftballMominVA

Advise her to learn Spanish and prepare to set up in private practice in one of the Latin American countries that will soon be doing a booming business in treating refugees from the US communist system. I’m thinking Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Chile, Uruguay, maybe Belize (they speak English, too).


19 posted on 03/22/2010 12:27:28 PM PDT by Argus
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My two cents is to encourage her career choice. Let her find her specialty and then help her find employment overseas. I expect quality medicine will only be offered in small countries in Carribean to cash paying clients. She should do well. She may need to consider revoking her citizenship if she ever wishes to accumulate some wealth for her later years. This would be my call at the moment.


20 posted on 03/22/2010 12:27:29 PM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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