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Sounds terrible, but all the US medical resident physicians are playing the world’s tiniest violins for this article, because they keep worse hours, get paid le
by chromatin 5y ago
Sounds terrible, but all the US medical resident physicians are playing the world’s tiniest violins for this article, because they keep worse hours, get paid less (like half to 60%), and if they mess up, someone dies or is maimed.
edit: downvoted for truth — witness the medical resident physician reply below confirming exactly what I observed. To clarify, I support raising the standards for all junior people and do not advocate abusive employment and training practices.
- david-gpu 5y agoI believe that is called "crab bucket mentality". Resident doctors deserve better than that. Their situation should be improved rather than dismissing everybody else's struggles.
- chromatin 5y agoSorry it came across as dismissal, because it wasn’t. I don’t condone abusive employment or training conditions for anyone. It was merely an honest observation that society writ large, and especially of note young physicians, will find it hard to sympathize with Ivy League grads making double their salary at a younger age with far less responsibility.
- mint2 5y agoIt came across as “stop complaining because xyz has it worse”
- et2o 5y agoI was thinking exactly this. They get all kinds of perks at McKinsey, I just get dumped on by everyone. We don’t get retirement benefits, travel expenses, anything that is standard in corporate America and we have essentially no freedom to switch teams or move between specialties etc. like they do in the corporate world. Not to mention their salaries go up dramatically in 1-2 years of training. They would easily be making 5x what we make in a few years. Not that they have it great, but I just have difficulty feeling too much empathy. Ok, I’m going to go back to trying not to kill anyone today.
- chromatin 5y agoUS medical resident training is exploitative. At least the duty hours and overt toxicity is massively improved compared to even 15 years ago. Do surgery residents still have to lie to ACGME about hours these days? Hope that is better.
- et2o 5y agoAbsolutely still have to lie about hours. Still feels pretty toxic today. Hard to believe it was even worse 15 years ago.
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