Topic: Medical School Enrollments up?

[Weisshaupt]

Medical School enrollments are up?

Why do I doubt that?  Hope and  Change Magical thinkers? Welcome to Obamacare kids. The MOST they will let you earn is 100K.  ACA did not thing to stop or cap law suit settlements.  You  will never have a private practice.  You will never pay off the 300K in loans. You will spend most of your time filing paperwork. Worth all of those years of stress, late nights and internship?  Doubt it.

Even if its true, I can almost guarantee that most of these people will leave the country if they do graduate, and will quit before graduation if they don't plan to leave.

[RickZ]

There may be more applicants, but are they the best applicants?  Or did the best decide that some other branch of medical science holds more options than being a gub'mint doctor?

[OldSailor]

There may be more applicants, but are they the best applicants?  Or did the best decide that some other branch of medical science holds more options than being a gub'mint doctor?

Even if the figures in the article are true (are they?) how many of these new docs are going to become GPs which are in very short supply versus specializing?  GPs put in some of the longest hours in the medical community.  Example, even after the office closes my primary care physician puts in long hours dealing with the day's paperwork, updating physicians notes and so on.  The guy is salaried, which means (for those who don't know) he pulls down the same pay no matter how many hours per pay period he puts in, 8 or 80.

[ToddF]

Foreigners?  To take their training back home? 

[LadyVirginia]

My nephew had said all through college he was going to med school. He graduated in May and is pursuing a different grad degree in a program hard to get in to. Maybe he'll go some day I don't know (he definitely could get in).  I wouldn't.

[Pandora]

I suspect it's the Affirmative Action enrollees; Obamacare states it wants doctors to match patient ethnicity.

[LadyVirginia]

I suspect it's the Affirmative Action enrollees; Obamacare states it wants doctors to match patient ethnicity.

huh? you can only treat your own kind?

[Pandora]

I suspect it's the Affirmative Action enrollees; Obamacare states it wants doctors to match patient ethnicity.

huh? you can only treat your own kind?

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor under Obamacare — if you both belong to the same race.

Obamacare’s spectacular flop of a rollout distracts from its crude calculus that encourages the allocation of healthcare resources along racial lines and a doctor-patient system splintered into ethnicities.

While the 2010 Patient Protecion and Affordable Care Act’s language on diversity sounds innocuous, a review of the frankly separatist thinking of the law’s ardent supporters indicates Obamacare is aiming for a health care system that puts political correctness above the struggle against illness and death.

A 2009 report by the Center for American Progress (CAP) examining the House and Senate bill eventually signed by President Barack Obama advocates pairing patients and doctors of the same race, a goal toward which the law channels taxpayer dollars.

“Research suggests that health care providers’ diagnostic and treatment decisions, as well as their feelings about patients, are influenced by patients’ race or ethnicity,” the CAP report reads. “Several studies have shown that racial concordance is substantially and positively related to patient satisfaction.”

The key phrase is “race concordance” — a word which means “a state in which things agree and do not conflict with one another.”

“There is… evidence that race concordance — defined as shared racial or ethnic identities between clinicians and patients — is related to patient reports of satisfaction, participatory decision making, timeliness of treatment, and trust in the health system,” the report reads. In other words, fixing the broken U.S. healthcare system means assigning Hispanic doctors to Hispanic patients, African American doctors to African American patients, Creole doctors to Creole patients, and so on.

To accomplish this, the CAP report explains, Obamacare pours taxpayer dollars into affirmative-action candidates whose judgment will lead them to make life-or-death decisions. Ultimately, these taxpayer-funded grants would provide scholarships and loan forgiveness for minorities so they could provide healthcare services exclusively to their own race or ethnicity.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/20/obamacare-seeks-to-segregate-patients-doctors-by-race/#ixzz2j3ExtXVU

Read the whole thing -- it's two pages -- and see, when you're done, if you don't want to kill something.

[LadyVirginia]

know what they call the grad at the bottom of his class in med school?

Doctor.



so ethnic compatibility trumps skill, knowledge and outcomes?  baloney


the uninsured, illegals at my local ER didn't seem to care that the doctor was not of their ethnic group

 

[OldSailor]

I suspect it's the Affirmative Action enrollees; Obamacare states it wants doctors to match patient ethnicity.

Fitting really, a decision made by our first Affirmative Action President.   

[Libertas]

I suspect it's the Affirmative Action enrollees; Obamacare states it wants doctors to match patient ethnicity.

Fitting really, a decision made by our first Affirmative Action President.   

"Hello, I am Dr. Mohammad, what seems to be the problem?"