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You are correct that RVUs and administrative oversight are going to only get bigger. That said, I can't think of an industry which is immune to expanding oversight. Being in medicine will require adaptation just like any other career.

BUT, there is now and for the foreseeable future, a significant physician shortage. Coupled with the aging Boomer population, this will cement our need of physicians for decades to come.

Being in medicine (particularly as a physician) is probably the most stable career choice out there right now IMO.
 
Meridian17 said:
I posted this on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/premed/comments/bfr20h

Basically the overview is it seems like paperwork, administration, RVU-is-king attitudes, etc are only growing. I'm curious as to y'all's thoughts on this, cause the events of these last few days have made me pretty worried about the future (not to mention disillusioned about the present). If anyone can offer inspiration I'd be eternally grateful...
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Get the MD, suck it up for 5 years after residency to get loans paid off, then reduce to a part time position overseeing a hospice and doing at home visitations/have a clinic in a rural area where you see patients 3 half days a week and call it good.
 
Get that MD/MBA and climb that medical corporate ladder.
 
Meridian17 said:
lol agreed! But apparently a lot of the hospitals in the area are thinking of this or switching to RVUs, and even the ones that aren't (such as mine) are increasingly filled with red tape it feels like, idk
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RVUs are fine and nothing new. Many ED groups are RVU only and have been for many years.
 
Meridian17 said:
Most of the physicians I work with loathe RVUs and think they're responsible for a ton of medical mistakes (which is why they work at the hospital I'm at instead of the various RVU-villes surrounding us), which is why I tend to be scared about increasing RVU-ness. But perhaps my view's restricted by working only at one place, IDK.
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Ironic that they got an even worse system then.
 
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