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Have you even looked at the difference in take home pay is between a practicing medical doctor and SWE in the last 25 years?

steveBK123 3y ago
And doctors can practice anywhere there’s human settlement. Choose whatever range of lifestyle they want with a cartel endorsed golden ticket to high average pay. SWEs are generally fenced in to a few HCOL urban areas to earn high pay.
- infamouscow 3y ago
  Doctors can only practice in states they have passed board licensing exams for. Doctors can only practice in states where they can get malpractice insurance. Doctors don't have the luxury of switching specialties like SWEs. A pathologist can't just switch to a cardiologist by practicing nights and weekends. Doctors have to comply with additional local public health regulations artificially limiting the number of medical staff. I can go on..
  - FireBeyond 3y ago
    > Doctors have to comply with additional local public health regulations artificially limiting the number of medical staff. This is a curious way of describing the lobbying and other efforts that doctor's OWN body, the AMA, aggressively and successfully continues to do to limit physician supply. That particular call is coming from inside the house. And based on the AMA's history, leadership, and so forth, the majority of physicians are entirely onboard.
    - infamouscow 3y ago
      The American Medical Association was founded before the civil war. What evidence would change your mind if presented? As it stands, it seems like you're convinced of an unfalsifiable conspiracy theory.
      - FireBeyond 3y ago
        Huh? What has the Civil War to do with anything? What's the conspiracy theory? It is open knowledge, acknowledged by the AMA themselves, that they have worked to limit physician supply for a long time. In fact, it's only recently that they're begrudgingly acknowledging that maybe, just maybe they've created a supply problem and system built around it that will take effort to unravel.

steveBK123 3y ago

And doctors can practice anywhere there’s human settlement. Choose whatever range of lifestyle they want with a cartel endorsed golden ticket to high average pay. SWEs are generally fenced in to a few HCOL urban areas to earn high pay.

infamouscow 3y ago
Doctors can only practice in states they have passed board licensing exams for. Doctors can only practice in states where they can get malpractice insurance. Doctors don't have the luxury of switching specialties like SWEs. A pathologist can't just switch to a cardiologist by practicing nights and weekends. Doctors have to comply with additional local public health regulations artificially limiting the number of medical staff. I can go on..
- FireBeyond 3y ago
  > Doctors have to comply with additional local public health regulations artificially limiting the number of medical staff. This is a curious way of describing the lobbying and other efforts that doctor's OWN body, the AMA, aggressively and successfully continues to do to limit physician supply. That particular call is coming from inside the house. And based on the AMA's history, leadership, and so forth, the majority of physicians are entirely onboard.
  - infamouscow 3y ago
    The American Medical Association was founded before the civil war. What evidence would change your mind if presented? As it stands, it seems like you're convinced of an unfalsifiable conspiracy theory.
    - FireBeyond 3y ago
      Huh? What has the Civil War to do with anything? What's the conspiracy theory? It is open knowledge, acknowledged by the AMA themselves, that they have worked to limit physician supply for a long time. In fact, it's only recently that they're begrudgingly acknowledging that maybe, just maybe they've created a supply problem and system built around it that will take effort to unravel.