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guys, noow that you are in med, what do you think will be the biggest problem the medical profession will face once you guys graduate and are practicing? where can i find this information>?
problems with the medical profession
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Is it secondary application time again already?! Geez.
If this is for one of your secondary applications, I think that the admissions committee would appreciate it if you did your OWN research into the question.
That being said, a few minutes of quality time with the health or politics section of any major metropolitan newspaper should give you some ideas.
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Rabid goats.
The internets.
The internets.
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All you have to do is poke around SDN to see that med schools are admitting communists who think that everyone everyone in the world deserves free health care and that doctors don't deserve to get paid. These people will run the profession into the ground.
But you certainly can't write that in your secondary.
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Student debt, decreasing physician salaries, insurance companies regulating healthcare, etc. Hell with any one of those three, you should be able to write one hell of an essay.
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The fact that scrubs have laces instead of zippers. Is a huge pain when it's knotted up and you need it open quick. It's a problem with a solution, I hope. For all our sakes.
But yeah, the debt, salaries, reimbursement issues are all worth a mention too.
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The US healthcare system continues to evolve. It could be a very different climate in a few years.
Start thinking about the business aspect of medicine. Do you want to work in academics? Private practice? Be a salaried employee? Or generate your own business and market your practice? Join a group? Solo? Hospital privileges? Part-time non-clinical duties?
Start thinking about the business aspect of medicine. Do you want to work in academics? Private practice? Be a salaried employee? Or generate your own business and market your practice? Join a group? Solo? Hospital privileges? Part-time non-clinical duties?
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I didn't realize I had to know so much about the business side of medicine. I can see why doctors are annoyed at that.
We are pushed to believe that practicing medicine is all about the science and the patient-care as students. In reality, I see doctors spending a lot of time dealing with staff management, insurance forms, and billings.
I don't think all of that is a bad thing. Medicine certainly has gotten more complicated and expensive (because of technological improvement), so I think being forced to be more efficient with your time/money is a good thing and documenting is a good thing.
However, the way reimbursement is done is inefficient and not in the best interest of anyone. People underestimate the risks involved in medical procedures which results in lawsuits. And I think there are too many people without a medical background dictating how our healthcare system is run.
And oh yeah, too many lawyers involved in the medical field!
We are pushed to believe that practicing medicine is all about the science and the patient-care as students. In reality, I see doctors spending a lot of time dealing with staff management, insurance forms, and billings.
I don't think all of that is a bad thing. Medicine certainly has gotten more complicated and expensive (because of technological improvement), so I think being forced to be more efficient with your time/money is a good thing and documenting is a good thing.
However, the way reimbursement is done is inefficient and not in the best interest of anyone. People underestimate the risks involved in medical procedures which results in lawsuits. And I think there are too many people without a medical background dictating how our healthcare system is run.
And oh yeah, too many lawyers involved in the medical field!
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Medicine does not have a monopoly on the relatively widespread disdain for attorneys. Through my practice I have been fortunate enough to meet and know many businessmen, ranging from small local mom & pop shops to top executives at large international corporations; the opportunity to listen and hopefully learn from them has been the single most pleasant surprise for me in all of medicine. Uniformly they all, at one point or another, complain about the litiginous nature of the current society, citing it as a silent tax that places a stranglehold on new product development, etc. It consumes a large amount of resources which could be put to better use in other ventures.
I believe that it was Miami Med who posted on here some time ago that the advent of medical malpractice was a product of the greater legal push for "consumer protectionism" (i.e. originally as a protection of the consumer from faulty products which has evolved into if you buy a cup of hot coffee and spill it on you without someone explicitly informing you "hey ******, this sh** is hot, which means it will burn your ******ed a** if you spill it on you more recently).
And you are most certainly correct in the belief that the general public has little understanding (and even less tolerance) of the inherent risk involved with life in general, including medical interventions.
