“Ninety percent of doctors I know are fed up with medicine.”
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#2Yeah, my dad, a family practice physician for 20 years, would confirm this. His monthly overhead costs (in a tightly run physicians' group) are mind blowing and he has working hours and a sleep schedule that would stupify this 25 year old. He could work a quarter of the hours and make more money just doing ER work, but feels an obligation to his patient base. But there are many other doctors making that choice or choosing lucrative niche specialties, and who can blame them? There's almost no economic and lifestyle incentive to become a general practitioner anymore.
Also, any time you have a complicated system that no one believes in, people are going to try to game it. So you have some doctors billing Medicare these huge sums for a patient coming in with a runny nose, and this further discourages the honest doctors.
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#3If they want they can come and work in the British NHS. A good GP here can get £100,000 a year. Of course you'll have to put up with the MRI taking weeks unless it's an emergency but it seems better then what that doctor suffered.
I think the biggest difference here is that although people in the UK moan a lot about the National Health Service they do respect the doctors and staff and value their input to society. Who doesn't benefit from feeling respected and valued?
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#4Couldn't they find more than one guy to interview for this article? One guy who happens to be a friend of the writer?
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#5This article, while greatly interesting, isn't really hacker news. Unless we're talking about really, really sloppy doctors.
Perhaps this would fit better at reddit instead.
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#7If they want they can come and work in the British NHS. A good GP here can get £100,000 a year. Of course you'll have to put up with the MRI taking weeks unless it's an emergency but it seems better then what that doctor suffered. I think the biggest difference here is that although people in the UK moan a lot about the National Health Service they do respect the doctors and staff and value their input to society. Wh…
Probably not such a good idea. We can barely find enough positions for the doctors trained in this country.
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#8This article, while greatly interesting, isn't really hacker news. Unless we're talking about really, really sloppy doctors. Perhaps this would fit better at reddit instead.
But this is hacker news. This is screaming business opportunity. If you can create a service to remove the hassle of running a practice, you're golden.
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#9"For me it's an endless amount of work that I can never get through to do it properly".
Hands up anybody who's prepared to admit that this doesn't apply to their job, and they have plenty of time to do everything expected of them to their complete satisfaction.
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go work for McKinsey or something.
Out of the frying pan, into... another frying pan.
I have friends who worked for McKinsey, BCG, etc. My observation: High pressure, long hours, continuous travel which eventually drives you crazy. (Travel sounds like fun, until you realize that business travel consists of the insides of hundreds of airports, limos, hotel rooms, and conference rooms and not much else. And it really is continuous -- four days out of every week, except for the lucky folks who make it into the coveted Wall Street office where the commute is only a few blocks. Ever wonder why every ad at every airport seems to be targeted at management consultants? Wonder no more...)
Lots and lots and lots of diplomacy and office politics (which is your primary task). You'll wear out a lot of ties.
Not to mention the first-order problem: There is a right time and a wrong time to get that job. The time right after you get your MBA is a good time. Thanks to a fad (which, I believe, began in the nineties) for hiring fresh new Ph.D.s, the time right after you get your Ph.D. is a good time. I'm not sure that there are many other good times. I'm guessing that "right after you burn out on medicine" is not a good time.