This forum has been ruined by unreasonable and sensationalist parties all over board. Nobody cares about what is said here any longer except the same 5-10 folks stating the same things over and over.
It's obvious you have strong feelings. How about you try a better way of creating change and start by gathering a handful of like-minded folks and formally petitioning CAP with some sort of well documented/supported opposition or complaint? Or better yet, find like-minded people and encourage them to volunteer their time in influencing CAP policy by getting involved. No better way to change policy than by becoming the policy-maker. Then, come back and report your progress or your hangups. Put your pent up energy to something productive instead of your counter-productive anonymous message board rants.
I agree with this. Why don't you guys do something about it?
This scaremongering won't keep people out of your field. It will just keep good people out. There are plenty of incomprehensible IMGs and barely-sentient Carib grads waiting to take any residency spot in America, and we're all aware that path is particularly bad for accepting those with egregious deficiencies.
You could bring together true market data that supports your claim and present it to the CAP, ABP and AMA and whatever politicians would love to save money on GME.
The Mitchell study put the spotlight on self-referral. The drastic technical component cuts are partially a reaction to that study. But PIMA is in the pipeline, and lots of other specialties are on board. All this is due to a study that showed evidence that all but damned pod-lab owning urologists.
With the above in mind, I suppose it wouldn't be too much for a few of these chronically complaining pathologists(many of whom have made their money) to fork over a few thou each to McKinsey or whatever to do a real-deal unbiased and properly done market study. The great thing about evidence is that its hard to refute. So go find some! It'll work!
Run for positions on the CAP and ABP too. Maybe some of you will get them. If you think you're too busy to do that, then this issue obviously isn't important enough for you.
