It is called Mehary School of Medicine in Nashville Tennessee. Ask some doctors you know about this school and they can tell you about the horrors that the school produces.
+1 for Mehary being a total joke. The reason? Its an affirmative action black school that gets loads of tax dollars to accept black students with subpar grades. Obamacare has a provision for more of this exact thing. Vanderbilt residents have to work with those clowns and I have heard about many near death situations.
Also lots of gov’t run hospitals (VA for one; inner city hospitals) consistently use foreign med grads on the cheap. Expect way more of the same as we lose the talent to this BS.
As for docs switching to salaries, the current batch will still maintain the belief that they are getting screwed, its the new affirmative action and subpar grads that will be leftists. Also, this allows the gov’t to force them to take Medicare which is key to their takeover. As it stands right now, if the private docs got the cajones to abandon Medicare en masse, they can’t do a thing. If all docs end up earning a salary from hospitals (which are dependent on fed dollars AND beholden to the fed legally by precedent of many years) they will be taking Medicare by default. Then the docs will no longer care about managing costs or about the insurance payouts because they no longer see the bottom line. Then the chorus will chime in that we need to regulate this “madness” of spending and hello death panels 2.0.
At the same time they will cease to care to provide true service industry quality of service as there is ZERO incentive to do so. And the quality of care goes into the toilet. Docs do this NOW. If they are working on salary and some patient comes in in the evening or at some other unfortunate time, the doctor will give a middle finger to you and will come at their leisure as their bottom line will not change one bit whether or not they come to see you that night. If the doctor makes money based on visits and face time, you bet your a$$ they will be there that evening and again the next day to maximize their cash flow and to ensure that said patient returns (if applicable to the situation). If you’ve had the privilege of working with a salaried doc in a teaching hospital fed by tax dollars vs. a private hospitalist, the difference is startling.