Comments on: New Med Students Shun Primary Care Jobs

Survey: Only 2 Percent Of Upcoming Graduates Plan To Become Primary Care Doctors

[joeybergas]

i am also a senior medical student and i am with klc fan.. you guys apparently have preconceived notions about doctors and their supposed god complexes....yes....there are a good number of narcissistic doctors......but.... this rarely, if ever, interferes with them doing their jobs..... i can assure you that it would be a grave mistake for you guys to consider dropping the wages of physicians... the backlash would be catastrophic..... how much money did you pay to get your degree? i paid 150,000..... you guys have no idea how hard being a doctor is....go spend a day with a general surgeon and see the infinite number of things he/she has to do that day.... you people highly underestimate what training this takes, and if you think youre going to be able to continue to create people who are capable of this kind of work by treating them worse than they are already being treated....you are truly, gravely mistaken...... i would be very careful with this line of thinking.... if one day the doctors decide that working 80 hours a week is too much and decide to go on strike... i can imagine this would create a problem

[wl7bzh]

Don''''t disparage us; you may need a good doctor one of these days when somebody plants their fist in your face.

Posted by klcfan at 05:06 PM : Sep 10, 2008

Very professional of you Doc-Guess it must be some of that Doc/God complex we hear so much about. Tell you what-if you really want to feel important, you can always find some nurse to tell "if you wanted to be a Doctor(God) you should have gone to medical school" That''ll put the uppity little byotch in her place.

[klcfan]

I feel as a senior medical student it is my job to refute some of the inaccurate information and maligning of my colleagues and myself by the other posters. To dantt, I''ve been in school 80% of my life to attain the goal of becoming a physician. My dad is a laborer, mom is disabled, and they make $40K per year. I''ve never traveled overseas, and want more than anything to in the literal sense, make people feel better. My story is by no means unique. To go through so many years of h e l l in order to put MD after our names is not something we take lightly. I could have a nice house for the amount of money I currently owe Uncle Sam for student loans, and I''ll be spending the next 3 years working for what amounts to less than minimum wage during residency. Yet I do it so I can take care of YOU and your loved ones. Don''t disparage us; you may need a good doctor one of these days when somebody plants their fist in your face.

[joeybergas]

hahahah this dude thinkgs that incompetent physicians are the ones that fuel the frivolous lawsuit....... lawsuit hungry society we live in????? stupid ***.... youre probably a lawyer.. nothing is harder than being a doctor.....period

[payasyougo]

Let me foretell the future of a medical student...

Run up 150k in debt while completing arguably the longest and most intense curriculum with the greatest responsibility....

...only to be told you make too much money, or you make a perceived mistake and your insurance company settles with John Edwards because its cheaper than defending that you didn''t make a mistake, or you get to look forward to managed health care.

Why would anyone go down that path?

[dogsoul]

...well, if you''d like a preview of how well socialized financing works - look at medicare

[dogsoul]

split up... try this

http://www.angelfire.com/pa/sergeman/issues/healthcare/socialized.html

[gce65]

Please don''t mistake what I''m saying. American medicine is not inferior. But the way we finance it is.

[dogsoul]

...or you can look over THIS link & get a little closer to the truth about socialized healthcare...

http://www.angelfire.com/pa/sergeman/issues/healthcare/socialized.html

[dogsoul]

"Health care has becomes a privilege for those who can afford it. Everyone else is left without it."

90% of Americans are either insured, about to be insured, or can afford insurance or an insurance program, but voluntarily opt out.

"We are the only industrialized nation who approaches it this way, and it will sink us. Meanwhile, all the other nations will watch and say, "We told you so."

Other nations are desperately trying to climb out from under their failing socialized health care disasters by trying to adopt (or re-adopt) many of the practices of the United States - and yet while we sit here & plainly view these abismal failures unfold, liberals want us to jump into the pit...

The United States alone accounts for most of the world''s medical advancements in the last 30 years, for a very good reason - because we''ve not listened to these socialists. We must focus on reigning in the true bloodsuckers, the lawyers - ignore these socialist idiots, and formulate a plan to cover the remaining 10%...

Liberals - if you live in a place called reality, you won''t find any...