Young Docs Shun Primary Care

[longknife]

How often do you see a PA instead of an MD? I guess the most succinct part of this article is this:

"In 2015, the average primary doc made $195,000 — which, from my perspective, is a lot. But the average orthopedic surgeon made $421,000. Now, if you think about going through four years of college, then four grueling years of medical school, then three to six years of soul-crushing residency and coming out well into adulthood with a mountain of debt — while all your friends have retirement accounts, and be looking at a salary that's potentially only a third of what someone who goes into a subspecialty can expect to make? Well, that would make anyone think twice," said Mitra in the Pulse.

So, it makes one wonder what the future will hold, especially small communities throughout the nation. A single small hospital or clinic and who is there to tend to the patients. Is there a cure? I'd sure like to see one appear.

Story with a video @ Young Docs Shun Primary Care

 

[Agit8r]

Nurse practitioners seem to provide just as good of care, in my experience.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Nurse practitioners seem to provide just as good of care, in my experience.

And......

 

[Conservative65]

Nurse practitioners seem to provide just as good of care, in my experience.

Better.

 

[baileyn45]

How often do you see a PA instead of an MD? I guess the most succinct part of this article is this:

"In 2015, the average primary doc made $195,000 — which, from my perspective, is a lot. But the average orthopedic surgeon made $421,000. Now, if you think about going through four years of college, then four grueling years of medical school, then three to six years of soul-crushing residency and coming out well into adulthood with a mountain of debt — while all your friends have retirement accounts, and be looking at a salary that's potentially only a third of what someone who goes into a subspecialty can expect to make? Well, that would make anyone think twice," said Mitra in the Pulse.

So, it makes one wonder what the future will hold, especially small communities throughout the nation. A single small hospital or clinic and who is there to tend to the patients. Is there a cure? I'd sure like to see one appear.

Story with a video @ Young Docs Shun Primary Care

I've actually been hearing this for some time. A good friend of mine is an adm at a medical school. They've been wrestling with it for years. The difference in income thus far seems to be making the problem intractable.

 

[Arianrhod]

This is not news. Specialists earn the big bucks.

Nurse practitioners seem to provide just as good of care, in my experience.

True. NPs and PAs are excellent at providing basic care. They also listen to what the patient is saying and ask incisive questions.

Primary care docs may become antiquated within a generation.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

You'll get what you pay for. It may not seem evident at first, but it does work out that way.

 

[Arianrhod]

You'll get what you pay for. It may not seem evident at first, but it does work out that way.

Can you elaborate?

 

[Arianrhod]

You'll get what you pay for. It may not seem evident at first, but it does work out that way.

Can you elaborate?

Apparently not.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

How often do you see a PA instead of an MD? I guess the most succinct part of this article is this:

"In 2015, the average primary doc made $195,000 — which, from my perspective, is a lot. But the average orthopedic surgeon made $421,000. Now, if you think about going through four years of college, then four grueling years of medical school, then three to six years of soul-crushing residency and coming out well into adulthood with a mountain of debt — while all your friends have retirement accounts, and be looking at a salary that's potentially only a third of what someone who goes into a subspecialty can expect to make? Well, that would make anyone think twice," said Mitra in the Pulse.

So, it makes one wonder what the future will hold, especially small communities throughout the nation. A single small hospital or clinic and who is there to tend to the patients. Is there a cure? I'd sure like to see one appear.

Story with a video @ Young Docs Shun Primary Care

I've actually been hearing this for some time. A good friend of mine is an adm at a medical school. They've been wrestling with it for years. The difference in income thus far seems to be making the problem intractable.

That is correct.

Without a specialty, you generally become a wheelhouse and the specialists make the big bucks.

 

[Arianrhod]

Some of you seem to be suggesting that the ideal system would be one in which there are no primary care docs, just specialists. Clearly you don't understand how medicine works.

 

[Holos]

How often do you see a PA instead of an MD? I guess the most succinct part of this article is this:

"In 2015, the average primary doc made $195,000 — which, from my perspective, is a lot. But the average orthopedic surgeon made $421,000. Now, if you think about going through four years of college, then four grueling years of medical school, then three to six years of soul-crushing residency and coming out well into adulthood with a mountain of debt — while all your friends have retirement accounts, and be looking at a salary that's potentially only a third of what someone who goes into a subspecialty can expect to make? Well, that would make anyone think twice," said Mitra in the Pulse.

So, it makes one wonder what the future will hold, especially small communities throughout the nation. A single small hospital or clinic and who is there to tend to the patients. Is there a cure? I'd sure like to see one appear.

Story with a video @ Young Docs Shun Primary Care

I think the first part of the article to be addressed in context to the topic of discussion is the expression "making money from salary".

In this context, it is more so appropriate to comprehend what the article is conveying through the distinction of "earning money" and "making money".

Only then we are able to relate the medical profession to the healthy future of a community according to its economy.

If taken economically accurate, what the article is stating with "the average primary doctor made $195,00" is that the average primary doctor REQUIRED $195,00 already established through the economy. In brief terms, it is the federal reserve which "makes" money by the numbers, and any professional believing or following the idea that they are actually making their salaries is gravely mistaken. Every professional EARNS according to their collaboration with the progressive development of federal resources, planned over the span of centuries.

The consequences of a professional not capable of making the distinction between "earning money" and "making money", especially engaged to a profession requiring social participation such as medicine, is as the article described, grueling, soul-crushing and unnecessarily financially demanding. No professional should go through that extent, and any profession can be fulfilled with much less struggle, if no struggle at all.