I've had a few experiences on the interview trail that have me somewhat worried about my future in medicine.
Allright I'm still reading...
Current applicants and medical students seem to be overwhelmingly liberal, and some faculty, including interviewers, have expressed left-wing views. As I'm sure some of you know, one school, which we'll disguise with the name "Stenn Pate", even sends in a dean to harangue the group of interviewees about how "shameful" it is that our nation which pretends to be the protector of the world and has the most advanced health care doesn't consider health care a right, that 40 million citizens don't have health insurance, etc.
I guess you are a well to do person then. I am also someone who is well to do financially and social economically. But how about you or I sit down and talking to some of these 40 million people.
I'm not sure we'd get a friendly response from the majority of those people. Let's be honest, if I were one of those 40 million (acutually 46) people who make just above the income bracket to not qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to get that juicy PPO low ductible plan by Blue Cross & Blue Shield - I'd be fairly critical of healthcare providers who were cherry picking the folks with juicy insurance.
So I guess the dean of Penn State was just trying to score some propaganda points. I'm sure his medical school program likes to work with juicy insurance programs too.
If people like that are the gatekeepers of the profession, I'm worried I may not get in anywhere, because I'm sure they'd consider me to be part of the problem, the white good old boy network that's more concerned with doctors continuing to make a good income than with casting down the mighty from their thrones and lifting up the lowly.
Well, I am not white, and I maybe mistakening you for another poster...but it is interesting how in the Social-Political forum you were arguing all for Chrisitianity and how it was so good for America and that America was a Christian country.
My question is, how can you look down on someone advocating for the poor and then call yourself a Christian. I am going to assume that you are of the Protestant tradition where one is "Saved by faith and not by works"
Well, I too am also from a Protestant tradition, but to suggest that we ought to dimiss the plight of those without access without adquate insurance or do not qualify for Medicaid runs contrary to many other important themes we see in Scripture.
Even if I do get in, if the majority of my colleagues are only there because they're global social justice types who wanted to infiltrate the profession and undermine it from within, it would seem there won't be hope of a decent future.
Hey I'd love to have a big pay check too. About $280,000 sounds good for me. But there ain't nothing wrong advocating for social justice too. I remember the quote of an American missionary in Guatemala who said "I feed the poor and they call me a saint. But when I ask why there are poor people they call me a communist"
She later got killed by the way.
I mean, show me how social justice is a bad thing cause those students you interviewed with were "infilatrating the proffesion and undermine it from within, it would seem there won't be hope of a decent future?"
Face it, doctors will always be rich. If you cannot afford the BMW Z9 Cabriolet, then I'm afraid you'll just have to settle for a BMW 335i series Decopue.
So really, show me why social justice is a bad thing, and is "infilatrating" the medical profession to cause its down fall. The Canadian got acess to healthcare - it sure as hell comes with a long wait line, but at least they don't have 45 million people left in the loops.
Heck, Canada doesn't even have 45 million people!
And we see all these threads on SDN saying how Canada is a primitve and inferior socialist country because it of its health care policy. Well are the Japanese a socialist country as well? Let's ask Ford and GM if they think Japan is a socialist country.
Is there an underground contingent of conservatives among the next generation of doctors, who might continue to fight for the profession? Is the consensus among current doctors and/or medical schools that one must be a liberal in order to be a physician?
It makes perfect sense to protect your profession, just remember to ignore those 45 million people - cause if we get universal health care, well doctors won't be able to drive that BMW Z9 anymore.
We'll just have to settle for the poor man's car like those Lexus hybrids that gets like 60 MPG
Face, US doctors are rich. They make more than 99.00% of the world's population of 7 billion people. If you are a pre-med student and think doctors are too poor then obviously you need read more of Forbes magazine and Bussiness Weekly. I get the feeling you know nothing about investment stragtegies and market portfolios. Trust me, you can be a greedy capitalist money maker like me and also work in helping out those who don't have the items we take for granted.
Heck, if 15 years from now we get a universal healthcare plan and doctors make less money - I would bet that we'd still be richer than 98.00% of the world's population.
Now if that 1% drop makes you think, "social justice types who wanted to infiltrate this profession are going to destroy it" then you are certaintly not a Christian like you claimed yourself to be in the previous post in the Social Political forums - and lets us not forget about rich man in the parable of Lazarus.
Look, I'm just as capitalistic as you - however I'm willing to settle for a Lexus in place of BMW, if it means better health care for 45 million. I'm sure there's going to be problems, but at least there's something.
So go ahead and plot strategy with all your conservative friends so you can get that BWM Z9 Cabriolet one day. Cause the Lord knows just how necessary those cars are. And doctors in rural area make bank too. At my school in WV the FPs average at about $160,000 a piece - that's below average now - but still puts them above 95% of the world's population.
One way or another, you will be rich.
