pancreas

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   by pancreas 9y ago

   It will be nice to have socialized medicine, but please, not as in Canada. Their system is not good. I would prefer Medicare expansion to all, or a VA-like system while medicare and medicaids are phased out. This will happen eventually, b
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   by pancreas 9y ago

   This is available for rich folks. This is "boutique medicine". Possibly the way of the future - to coexist with social medicine, of course.
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   by pancreas 9y ago

   YES. Salaries are not that high, either, for people in medical academia and now in HMOs as well. One can justify paying a neurosurgeon 430 per year - after 8 years of post-graduate training, and if you count college and medschool, that is
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   by pancreas 9y ago

   How is that a problem? About 130 medical schools graduate on average 100 MDs every year, that is 13,000. Available residency spots are near 29,000. so, the rest of the spots are filled by FMGs, foreign medical graduates.
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   by pancreas 9y ago

   You think that doctors profit from the current system? How exactly? Applications to med schools have been down for the last few years, and the trend is worrisome. Your doctor-bashing stance is common but uninformed.