Employment Ad For Doctors
KevinMD pointed me to this amusing USA Today opinion piece about an imaginary want ad for physicians:
“Idealistic Generation X/Y overachievers with low- to mid-six-figure student loans to work in imploding health care system currently subject to runaway entitlement spending. Future salary to be subject to government whim and guaranteed not to keep up with inflation. Will be subject to unreasonable expectations of patients and held responsible for less-than-perfect outcomes by consumer advocates and trial lawyers. Must be able to work 70-80 hours per week, not including on-call duties, and place family obligations a distant second to career pursuits.”
This reflects the reality of practicing medicine in the USA in 2008 and beyond. Are there any takers?
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