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Half of primary-care doctors in survey would leave medicine
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/17/primary.care.doctors.study/index.html

Can anyone explain how the healthcare system is affecting dentists in the US, as the system is negatively affecting medical doctors? Are dentists facing similar issues?

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I would like to see what the survey actually said. It asked if they would leave medicine if they had an alternative. The correct answer should have been 100% "no" because the survey was sent to practicing physicians. These people have the intelligence, people skills, time management skills, ambition, and drive required to graduate medical school and complete a residency. Therefore, they have many other options available to them, but they don't want to take them. They want to remain a physician. Therefore this survey is bunk.

Also, I realize they may have several hundred thousand dollars in student loan debt. However, there are plenty of jobs that give you enough income to pay those debts. It may be a bit more difficult, but it is doable.
 
Medicine is very respected profession. Thousands of people apply to medical school each year, as is the case for dentistry. Now, I can understand why half of primary care or family practice physicians may be unhappy, and the reason is that they are not allowed to practice medicine in many cases.

I had a professor in undergrad who now teaches a business psychology course who was once a family physician. She told me that she was not allowed to perform many procedures that she knew how to do, she had to have a specialist do most of it. Studying for years only to not be able to perform what you have been trained to do would make anybody unhappy.

Medicine overall is a flourishing profession, because it is so critical to the quality of life of people. I wouldn't judge the entire field based on the plight of one subspecialty.
 
Medicine is very respected profession. Thousands of people apply to medical school each year, as is the case for dentistry. Now, I can understand why half of primary care or family practice physicians may be unhappy, and the reason is that they are not allowed to practice medicine in many cases.

I had a professor in undergrad who now teaches a business psychology course who was once a family physician. She told me that she was not allowed to perform many procedures that she knew how to do, she had to have a specialist do most of it. Studying for years only to not be able to perform what you have been trained to do would make anybody unhappy.

Medicine overall is a flourishing profession, because it is so critical to the quality of life of people. I wouldn't judge the entire field based on the plight of one subspecialty.

They are simiply the contracters of medicine, same with internists.
 
I had a professor in undergrad who now teaches a business psychology course who was once a family physician. She told me that she was not allowed to perform many procedures that she knew how to do, she had to have a specialist do most of it. Studying for years only to not be able to perform what you have been trained to do would make anybody unhappy.

I know of one insurance plan ( name undisclosed ) that will not reimburse general dentists anything for doing scaling and root planing. And we're talking about routine nonsurgical sc/rp.

Hopefully this is an isolated occurrence and isn't a trend.
 
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