Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Not Good MD Fact

Walls : NO QUARTER: "...Here is a shocking fact.

Of the 15,000 students who will graduate from medical school this year — and the roughly 8,000 physicians and surgeons who will finish their specialty training — more than 93 percent will become employees of large clinics, managed-care companies or hospital systems..."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They are probably going to work for companies who are willing to loan them their tuition money up front in exchange for a work commitment...at least that would be my guess as an elderly nursing student who is planning to do the same thing...

Bob Harrison said...

I'm sure that accounts for most of the trend but that makes it no less worrisome.