What I wish I knew as a medical student

[c23am]

How can you trust a single doctor in a profit-based health system.

[Seasass]

I guess I'm not gonna have a good life, then ...

[DartmouthAlum96]

I robbed an insurance company for Jesus. No, wait a minute, I AM Jesus.

[DartmouthAlum96]

I robbed an insurance company for Jesus.  No, wait a minute, I AM Jesus.

[mas9999999999]

lol, gay

[oetwriting]

medicine is big money especially when you think that many normal human conditions are now 'diseases' e.g. the "obestity epidemic". How on earth is being fat a disease?

[youknowhow123]

@oetwriting Are you being serious?!

[nelly11796]

i hate it when people bring up the business aspect of it--makes me feel like im out to rip people off which im definitely not =/

[wtfthatsrandum]

thank god for the nhs - i don't need to consider profit as the ultimate goal of my work

[Lilquhizway]

@wtfthatsrandum

the NHS is a terrible healthcare system. The sole reason why i wont train and work in the UK

[BandofSorensons]

@Lilquhizway What makes it so horrible?

[Lilquhizway]

@BandofSorensons. what happens to any social system that gets dominated by the government...it normally doesn't thrive as it should. the healthcare in the use - being competition based (in a sense) is healthier (despite uncontrolled spending and the dismissal of patient/dr relations being primary). Also the pay is not worth it compared for the amount of sacrifice you put into your schooling, same goes for pay of other healthcare staff, in the US you are paid well for your work, in the UK nope

[BandofSorensons]

@Lilquhizway It makes no sense to compare medicine to free market businesses because patients, lacking medical expertise, are not poised to make decisions in keeping w/ free market economics. When someone has a heart attack and needs to go to the hospital, they just go, regardless of the fact that there might be more bang for their buck elsewhere. Medicine isn't amenable to such assumptions and greedy doctors realize this but continue to pretend to be capitalists just as long as they benefit.

[drtz4890]

@BandofSorensons You nailed it, IMO. Atul Gawande covers this issue in his books "Complications" and "Better"

[BandofSorensons]

@Lilquhizway I would also point out that patient outcomes are actually better in countries like the UK, than in the US. We have among the worst infant mortality rates among the wealthiest nation-states in the world and far too many of our citizens are effectively completely cut out of the medical system altogether due to their lack of over priced health insurance. From the point of view of people who are not paid to be doctors in the US, our medical system is a totally broken

[BeepimajeepBeep]

@BandofSorensons What happens when the world becomes over populated and no one has food or resources? I don't think people realize that we can't keep overpopulating the earth at an exponential rate.

Population control is a good thing, it's all nature... let nature take its course.

[clos4672]

@wtfthatsrandum

Yeah, what an awful thing to be rewarded for your hard work and contribution to society.

[wtfthatsrandum]

@clos4672 There's a difference between rewarding hard work and allowing people to suffer simply because they are not as well off. For one thing, hard work and earning a large salary are not always the same thing. For another, in systems with medicine as a business, the hospital generally will take you for everything you have, even when its unnecessary. The way that system works is to let the poor die and to bleed the rich dry - no one wins.

[skywalk333]

good advice indeed...

[deltaecho1]

good advice.

[AvocadoKid12]

boring