Are your pre-med kids reconsidering the field due to Covid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most docs have no exposure to it. Their practices are dying because they can’t see patients.

The reason not to go into medicine is not covid, but the death of private practice caused by covid. After this it will be just big hospitals and the government, which will suck.

This.

[Anonymous]

The reason not to go into medicine is because the US health care system is a complete mess. For profit mega corporations run the show and doctors are just cogs in their machinery

[Anonymous]

My DC is applying this cycle, more convinced this is the right path than ever.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone else read this article from today's NYtimes? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-hospital-morgue-worker.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

College student who finished out her senior year working in a hospital morgue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most docs have no exposure to it. Their practices are dying because they can’t see patients.

The reason not to go into medicine is not covid, but the death of private practice caused by covid. After this it will be just big hospitals and the government, which will suck.

Are their practices dying because they can't see patients or won't see patients? My doctor won't see patients even for things completely unrelated to respiratory illnesses. They are running and hiding until this is all over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most docs have no exposure to it. Their practices are dying because they can’t see patients.

The reason not to go into medicine is not covid, but the death of private practice caused by covid. After this it will be just big hospitals and the government, which will suck.

Are their practices dying because they can't see patients or won't see patients? My doctor won't see patients even for things completely unrelated to respiratory illnesses. They are running and hiding until this is all over.

They have money to ride out. Why not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most docs have no exposure to it. Their practices are dying because they can’t see patients.

The reason not to go into medicine is not covid, but the death of private practice caused by covid. After this it will be just big hospitals and the government, which will suck.

Are their practices dying because they can't see patients or won't see patients? My doctor won't see patients even for things completely unrelated to respiratory illnesses. They are running and hiding until this is all over.

They have money to ride out. Why not?

That's fine, but then their practices are dying because they choose not to see patients (not because they CAN'T see patients).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reason not to go into medicine is because the US health care system is a complete mess. For profit mega corporations run the show and doctors are just cogs in their machinery

This. The reason not to go into medicine is the health insurance mess from Obamacare.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most docs have no exposure to it. Their practices are dying because they can’t see patients.

The reason not to go into medicine is not covid, but the death of private practice caused by covid. After this it will be just big hospitals and the government, which will suck.

Are their practices dying because they can't see patients or won't see patients? My doctor won't see patients even for things completely unrelated to respiratory illnesses. They are running and hiding until this is all over.

They have money to ride out. Why not?

That's fine, but then their practices are dying because they choose not to see patients (not because they CAN'T see patients).

I don't think you need to worry about doctors. Covid will be over soon or later, people always get sick, doctors are always needed... I don't know anyone who folded so far.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most docs have no exposure to it. Their practices are dying because they can’t see patients.

The reason not to go into medicine is not covid, but the death of private practice caused by covid. After this it will be just big hospitals and the government, which will suck.

Are their practices dying because they can't see patients or won't see patients? My doctor won't see patients even for things completely unrelated to respiratory illnesses. They are running and hiding until this is all over.

They have money to ride out. Why not?

That's fine, but then their practices are dying because they choose not to see patients (not because they CAN'T see patients).

I don't think you need to worry about doctors. Covid will be over soon or later, people always get sick, doctors are always needed... I don't know anyone who folded so far.

There might be more support for public healthcare if enough private doctors refuse to see patients for non COVID issues because they are too afraid to treat patients. I'm sure doctors will end up fine, but there might be shifts in how Americans view a public option depending on how this plays out.

[Anonymous]

Doctors practices don't have nest eggs. If patients don't come for 2 months, it's devastating. Several specialties have had to let their most junior physicians go.

Many young people are still going to be attracted to medicine, particularly now that frontline workers are being hailed as heroes. That is very attractive to people trying to decide what they want to be when they grow up. And they are unaware of all the administrative, political and economic forces that make medicine so difficult.