"Will your advice be structured to point out only
the positive side of the medical profession
and medical school, as usual, or are you willing to
be honest about the landmines that are scattered
around the fields of medical practice?"
After one finishes up with the "best school B.S." and elaborates their ideas concerning the "idea of going to medical school," which tends to be very direct and biased to start with, the serious conversation begins.
Most physicians seem to spend little time on digging into the well known factors that relate to the four years of endless study, memorization, circuit around the various specialties, how to decide on your specialty, and explain what they did, thought about, and admired when they did their tour of medical school--while never answering many questions the potential student had to begin with. I did the same thing as young physician.
Any smart American college student should have enough brains and intellect to discern where the whole medical profession is headed, and completely disregards the negative stuff, if any, about the future of medical practice that they are told.
If they are a foreign student, likely they miss parts to the discussion because of ENGLISH language issues and never ask to have it repeated out of cultural respect. What is quietly hidden in the recruitment of all potential medical students are the rapidly increasing numbers of foreign students joining the medical profession while bringing their biases, cultural tendencies/beliefs, and behavior patterns with them. That's where the money is. Parents of foreign students have to be wealthy enough to insure that their kids get into the best schools.
Foreign students are the ultimate candidates for our medical schools because they normally come from countries that already have socialized medicine. That attribute is very useful from our government's point of view--they have no hesitation about being controlled and employed. And they are happy to live on less income and pleasures that our nation offers. Even that financial status often is higher than they would be in at home.
I call this my patriotic bias.
Do practicing physicians tell potential medical students the truth about medical
practice problems?
It's doubtful that any physician would spend time on discussing the negative side of medical practice with a potential student. If true, it means that they are covering up some very important issues that directly result in a bait and switch activity and enables a significant number of medical students with unrecognized vulnerabilities that can't tolerate the challenges they must live with while practicing medicine in our nation or while in our medical schools.
Our medical school class lost three students from our class of 144 students. I would also suggest that there were several more who never survived private medical practice or an employed position as well, for the same reasons. I also doubt that medical schools keep records of what happens to their graduates as they progress in their medical practice business and management.
This list comprises most of the greatest challenges that I believe need to be told to college students and new medical students.
- Told that they are predestined for financial failure of some
degree in private medical practice because they are business ignorant. - Be made aware that in employed positions that they can be fired
for very minor infractions of the company/medical facility rules. Can
you imagine what that day would be like, the day they are instantly outside
of the medical profession without a job or medical practice for support. - That choosing the specific geographical site to practice, is critical to their
survival in medical practice. - That private medical practice is disintegrating slowly because of
our government's plan to control all of healthcare and the
medical profession. - The only means to ever reach their maximum potential in medicine
is to have a business education. - In private medical practice it is good advice to have a "plan B" for
their careers and develop a separate income flow from outside of
medical practice right from the start. - When starting private medical practice, hire only experienced medical
office staff. - Choose a medical specialty that interests you and pick one that has parts
of it that you can switch to and focus on should situations force you to. - When facing large educational debt at completion of your training
join physicians who need help in their private practice or a
group practice or become an employed physician - Since over 60% of new patients are referrals from other physicians, set
up a patient referral recruitment program to attract other doctor referrals. - Obtain a medical service job as a teenager or college student that
provides a clear view of healthcare necessities. - While in college, take as many economic or business courses
as possible--won't be provided that in medical school. - Avoid a MBA business degree--it is too superficial for medical practice
useability and effectiveness. - I tell potential medical students to buy my book
THE WOUNDED PHYSICIAN PROJECT--to obtain the list of 114 business
and marketing books you can read to self-educate yourself effectively.
Want to know what happens to those of us who actually make efforts to improve the medical school education system and the lives and medical practices of all physicians in our nation?
Maybe you would prefer not to read what I'm about to tell you about. If so, you will remain blind to the mental anguish, constant frustration, and financial threats that most physicians in private medical practice continue to be tolerating, becoming burned out to the point of retiring early, and more sacrificially, constantly attempting to continue their medical practice battle for survival that is destroying not only private medical practice existence, but also the availability, quality, and highest value of healthcare services that this country demands.
The battle against the medical academic pundits whose arrogance rises to a level of political defecation and continues to focus on what they mistakenly believe to be the primary elements of cultural progress affecting the decreasing quality of medical care is far from over.
The attitude and investigations into the efforts of the AAMC (American Association of Medical Colleges) whose job is to establish curriculums for medical schools half of which is government approved, to resolve the issues of "medical training," not medical education, and the issues of "cultural competence," not medical skills and knowledge, and the "eliminating the racial group differences," instead of correcting the lack of a business education problem that leads to the real cause of the widespread attrition of American physicians. (WSJ, 4-25-22, "The New Political Transformation of Medicine")
The opposition to such changes is what will resolve our nation's medical care issues permanently and quickly and only a few physicians are courageous enough to speak out about all of the well known consequences of the fact that all physicians are business and marketing ignorant. This one factor left out of the medical education curriculums of all American medical schools over the last century, if made available to all medical school students today, would remove nearly all of the major problems in the practice of medicine, medical practice management, and medical practice
business success.
The insidious and progressive nature of our new woke AAMC members, whose oath to the government overseers and politicians believes that you can spray a red chicken black and it will lay black eggs. It's exactly the same supernatural force that affects President Biden's ability to not recognize that an open US border facing a tsunami of foreign immigrants will destroy
our nation soon.
The Bible flat out says that God controls all nations and that we all must obey our leaders, no matter what. Bible believers trust God to make good on his promises to all Christians, that He, in these cases, is in the process of punishing those who need punished and saving those that will be saved, despite what the media and political leaders want us to believe. The most difficult thing for me is that God does things in his own manner, in his own time frame, and for all the reasons that we will never understand.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, associate dean of curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine and chairman of "Do No Harm" organization, speaks out courageously against the present trend in medical education that follows the progressive agenda policies. (WSJ, 4-19-22, "Keep Politics Out of the Doctor's Office." He has been ostracized by 162 Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (notice--not Perelman School of Medicine) in an open letter published in Medscape, September 20, 2019. Search his many references on the Internet.
We need another thousand plus physicians to speak out loudly. When?? NOW!
----Professional Probe----
"When the heartfelt desire for medical practice
becomes obvious and persistent, you will recognize
behind that passion, the intent and desire to overcome
the barriers, landmines, and problems within the
practice of medicine even if the truth be told.
It would enable medical students to aware of
the issues, to be prepared for such events,
and prepare to avoid the harm that sudden
medical practice disruptions and financial
threats that destroy thousands of physicians
and their medical careers."
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