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To: Mamzelle
>>>Go to PA school, go overseas to med school and take the test on reentry. The fact is, it's expensive to educate a doctor here or anywhere.<<<


So why exacerbate barriers to entry like the AMA uniquely does, so that only the rich (and usually patient-detesting) candidates get to become doctors? Overseas, folks generally go into medicine for the love of medicine, not of money. And I reiterate what you conveniently ignore: medicine's an UNDERgraduate degree in most countries. Who said anything about abolishing medical licensing?
62 posted on 11/18/2002 7:56:40 AM PST by End The Hypocrisy
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To: End The Hypocrisy
Only the rich get to be doctors? Here's another option for you, one that many, many use...join the service and go to med school. I know several who avoided debt that way. And if you want to practice medicine without an MD, and get a single undergrad degree, become a PA. They are very well-paid and valuable to medical practices. Many, too, use a PA as a springboard into med school--especially the young ones.

Whining and self-pity ain't gonna get you much. And this "conspiracy of rich exclusive doctors" is just so much excuse making. If you want badly to be an MD or DO, there's a way.

63 posted on 11/18/2002 9:33:06 AM PST by Mamzelle
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