Demand for Specialties

[TexPre-Med]

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I'm going into Derm. There should be plenty of demand for it.

WOW! Please stop blowing us all away with your helpful advise on the topic!

Would you mind telling me some of your hobbies? I want to know what will be the next Beanie Baby and invest early!

 

[BoredMD]

WOW! Please stop blowing us all away with your helpful advise on the topic!

Would you mind telling me some of your hobbies? I want to know what will be the next Beanie Baby and invest early!

WOW......someone needs to pull out the stick that's shoved way up their ***. 🙄

 

[Strength&Speed]

I'll toss in my "predictions"...though they might suck:
Rads will oscillate up and down a very little amount. Yes, there is outsourcing, but there is also IN-sourcing. No one wants to read films at night. India may read our films at night, but we can read theirs during the day. It'll all pan out in the end. Salaries will drop a bit, people will stop going into rads for the money, and pay will go right back up again. Also, the use of imaging is growing exponentially...although tort reform may trim that back a little bit.

Yes. I have a crystal ball. Just my guesses...

we'll read india's studies? at what, triple the cost? i don't think so.
Not being a dick...jus sayin...

 

[Strength&Speed]

conveniently slathered in vasoline

hee haw

 

[Strength&Speed]

Just make an appointment with a dermatologist. you won't know the difference from the bill but chances are you will not meet the doc.

anecdote alert!::::i had a derm NP during my visit to the dermies...i think i saw the doctor for .2 seconds and the NP for 45 minutes. and there was nobody in the waiting area. looks difficult.

 

[digitlnoize]

we'll read india's studies? at what, triple the cost? i don't think so.
Not being a dick...jus sayin...

If reimbursements keep getting slashed, it may not be triple the cost in 10 years...

Besides, if work is as hard to come by as the doomsday rads are predicting, $5 a film is better than $0 a film.

I don't really think it will get that desperate, unless some major tort reform happens...in the current legal climate, I think you'll always need a US license.

However, tort reform may be in the pipeline eventually, and if it is it could spell trouble for rads.

 

[Taurus]

However, tort reform may be in the pipeline eventually, and if it is it could spell trouble for rads.

All of medicine would be in trouble if tort reform happened.

Then NP's who can work autonomously in their state can run wild (derm, cards, GI) and face little consequence if they f*ck up. Probably 9/10 patients a midlevel can handle by themselves. It's that 1/10 that they can't and why you need physician supervision.