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I saw an officer of the AMA , a doctor on television this morning, he said  
less than 33 percent of doctors support these plans and 44 percent will 
consider  leaving the profession if they pass in their current state. 
Dentists 
and doctors  are atop the suicide rate list by profession due to the high 
stress. I don't  know that low interest loans will be enough to fill the 
openings once they can  no longer get rich in the profession. 
 
Drew
 
 
In a message dated 9/16/2009 5:04:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
erthnsky AT bellsouth.net writes:



Gil White wrote:
> And where are they going to go?  Some of the older one's might retire
> and become cruise ship physicians  but most of them are too
> comfortable.

In many part of the  country, there is already a shortage of doctors.  My 
generation was  the last generation where there were still some folks 
going into medicine  for its altruistic benefits.  Mostly, people wanted 
to make  money.  It is the same with law school...only the naive want to 
go to  law school to defend the poor-mostly they go because they know 
attorneys  make good money.  In the last few decades, medical school has 
added  courses in business, insurance, malpractice, etc.  It is a major 
wet  blanket.  It would be interesting to see how many M.D.'s now go into  
research instead of practice.  (That is what I intended to do many  years 
ago-I wanted to work for the CDC)  Even that, in this day and  age, is 
not pure science, but science based on greed and grant funding,  etc.  I 
have friends who are physicians, and many are talking of  retiring early. 
Others will become corporate or personal  physicians where there is 
little risk of personal lawsuits. I'm sure some  may go into research or 
even change specialities.  Then, there will  be a shortage of physicians.



No worries though...there are  already, and will be more programs that 
encourage people to go into  medicine...low interest loans, grants based 
on service of a certain  location for a certain period of time, etc.


> I'm not a big fan  of government involvment, but once they step in
> they have to look at  both sides. Providing subsidized health care
> without controlling what  doctors and specialists can charge will end
> up subsidizing the medical  profession at the expense of the tax
> payers.

You have just  described what is wrong with government involvement in 
this country.   They don't look at both sides(only the side of business) 
and everything  here is subsidized at the expense of the tax payers, to 
the extreme that  future generations will be paying for bailouts and 
subsidies.   Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs gets their 11 BILLION dollar 
bonuses on our  grandchildren's money, for at least the second year in a 
row.

--  
Sleep well tonight, for somewhere in the ocean's depths, MY son  is
protecting your freedom on the USS Key West, currently  deployed
somewhere in the Pacific and/or Indian Ocean.  Go  Navy!
EarthNSky Farm, NW Georgia,  USA

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