Will medical school become less popular in the future?

[Anonymous]

In my country you start medical school right after HS. it's a 7 years program before specialization. However, maybe 20% at most complete the program. In fact by the second year, about 40-50% or more are gone. And only state universities offer medicine.

The United States has been doing what it does best, namely find bargain and use it to your advantage. More and more doctors from my country are being scooped up. I can only see this accelerating. While Americans take insane debt to finance their education, their government with the encouragement and financing of wall street is important cheaper doctors.

[Anonymous]

If government would get out of the way, more people would become local doctors and healthcare costs would plummet and be affordable without insurance.

The whole healthcare scam is about propping up the insurance ponzi scheme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If government would get out of the way, more people would become local doctors and healthcare costs would plummet and be affordable without insurance.

The whole healthcare scam is about propping up the insurance ponzi scheme.

What about pharma, private equity buying up practices, greedy hospitals and high salaries of healthcare workers?

[Anonymous]

There is a reason you see mostly immigrants becoming doctors. It's a crap job.

[Anonymous]

It already seems less popular with men, especially white men. Current med school classes seem heavily female, Asian, and/or Middle Eastern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Demand for healthcare isn’t going down. It’s going up. The cuts only affect poor and old.

BS
There will be no medical school when they don’t teach science any longer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my country you start medical school right after HS. it's a 7 years program before specialization. However, maybe 20% at most complete the program. In fact by the second year, about 40-50% or more are gone. And only state universities offer medicine.

The United States has been doing what it does best, namely find bargain and use it to your advantage. More and more doctors from my country are being scooped up. I can only see this accelerating. While Americans take insane debt to finance their education, their government with the encouragement and financing of wall street is important cheaper doctors.

This is very true. That said to the extent that I have choice I never select doctors that were trained outside of the United States. I know too many dumb kids that applied to med school overseas when they couldn’t get in anywhere in the U.S.

[Anonymous]

It is insane that you get charged the same for seeing a NP / PA as you do a doctor. I always insist on a doctor since it costs the same but that is becoming harder and harder to do as private equity is buying up medical practices.

More and more it is becoming poor and middle class visit NP / PA while upper middle class and wealthy will pay for concierge medicine from MD's.

[Anonymous]

Medicine will always be a popular career path due to the decent income and stability. The golden age of medicine is long gone and it is no longer a reliable path to an upper class life style. You need to graduate med school without student loans and get into a high paying competitive specialty. There are an increasing amount of talented US med school grads who don’t pursue residency training because there are better opportunities outside of clinical medicine. The less talented physicians, desperate immigrants, and NP/PA are what’s left to actually take care of patients.