[SoftballMominVA]

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?

[Grunthor]

Well...does she WANT to be a slave to the federal givernment?

[Sloth]

I foresee a big demand for coroners, or possibly battlefield medics.

[KeyLargo]

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?

[MichiganConservative]

Look into engineering.

[Mamzelle]

I would say to any doc--if you can't retire, try to put together a nest egg in order to take a long sabbatical in 2014, at least a year. Because the transition is going to be pure hell as these insurance companies start going out of business, because there's no way they can stay in business. Doctors will find themselves scapegoated for all the misery that will ensue.

Unfortunately, that's about the time your daughter will be in residency.

And that includes those insurance companies that insure Congressman Judas Stupak and all the rest of the critters.

[70th Division]

My son is in his first year of being a Dr. He is 30. Med school 1 yeear internship 3 years residency. He is scared. His wife is also a Dr. Same class.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

To help control costs doctors will be brought in on a massive scale from such places as Bangladesh, Haiti etc. Congress and the higher levels of the Executive branch will obtain quality American doctors. The rest of us will have to ask the doctors we get to stop shaking the rattles while they speak a language we can’t understand.

[Persevero]

The future is always uncertain.

Do what you love.

[Gay State Conservative]

I heard...or at least I think I heard...that the New England Journal of Medicine (the most respected medical periodical in the world) just released a poll of their (American) readers that showed that if HusseinCare passes something like 40% of "primary care" doctors in this country will consider leaving medicine.FORTY PERCENT!

If true that could represent a huge,*huge* warning sign for your daughter to become a software engineer rather than a physician.It could also mean that if she did go into medicine she wouldn't have any trouble getting a job.The only questions would be..."what will I make....what kind of work load will I have....will I be allowed to actually *help* my patients....what will it be like having the likes of Hussein The Blessed looking over my shoulder every minute I'm seeing patients?"

If your daughter's curious just about every public library subscribes to the NEJM so she can check the accuracy of my statement about the poll.

[Arrowhead1952]

I was just going through several older threads and happened upon this one. I had to go to my Dr yesterday and asked the nurses what they thought about this HC bill.

They hate the bill and my Dr will probably retire and close his office. We live in a mostly retired community and he is the only medical provider within 20 miles.