Comments on: SOCIALIZED MEDICINE & CAREER CHOICES http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/03/16/socialized-medicine-career-choices/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:50:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: SmartDoc http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/03/16/socialized-medicine-career-choices/#comment-63845 SmartDoc Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:55:12 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/03/16/socialized-medicine-career-choices/#comment-63845 Primary care medicine is arguably the most socialized branch of medicine (most dependent on Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, price controlled HMOs, etc.). Hence it is doomed. Primary care medicine is arguably the most socialized branch of medicine (most dependent on Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, price controlled HMOs, etc.).

Hence it is doomed.

]]> By: Nurse K http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/03/16/socialized-medicine-career-choices/#comment-63781 Nurse K Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:50:31 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2008/03/16/socialized-medicine-career-choices/#comment-63781 A fella I know who was a neurologist in the Ukraine made about $30/week in the late 90s. But, as he always clarified, "The training there wasn't equivalent to your training here for neurologists. I was a doctor, but was trained about as well as an American PA, just like everyone else." A fella I know who was a neurologist in the Ukraine made about $30/week in the late 90s. But, as he always clarified, “The training there wasn’t equivalent to your training here for neurologists. I was a doctor, but was trained about as well as an American PA, just like everyone else.”

]]>