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Dec 18, 2024
1:10:14pm

idcougarfan All-American

Are doctors willing to take a pay cut to have less of a workload?

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idcougarfan

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Joined: Nov 7, 2009
Last login: Dec 18, 2024
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This is a major health crisis for families experiencing this, but also for

Mitty

12:33pm

Hard to change the fact that it's just a high stress career. Some just crack

12:41pm

Except it's been a high stress career for hundreds of years, and the suicide

Mitty

12:46pm

I lost two good friends in med school and residency due to the expectations that

imdocrob

1:00pm

You start by protecting against inhumane sleep deprivation. There's

cougfanz

12:52pm

Residency is much less intense than it used to be. There are now laws and

Powerbait DPM

12:51pm

I think there is a lot of truth behind the ever more elusive payoff of medicine

scottpete

12:56pm

Google says the average family medicine doc is making 190k/year in Utah.

Powerbait DPM

1:04pm

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cougfanz

1:08pm

The $ in engineering is not even close to medicine unless you get lucky with

Mitty

1:02pm

My mental health was terrible at times during residency. And it was less about

diluigifan

1:39pm

There were times when it was absolutely brutal for me. Our call was intense,

Powerbait DPM

2:04pm

Are doctors willing to take a pay cut to have less of a workload?

idcougarfan

1:10pm

Medicare cuts reimbursement every year

WorfoSAUR

1:38pm

Yep. Cutting another 3% this year, I believe. I don’t know of any other career

Lalau

3:29pm

Talks about how they kill their family members without malicious intent

Zerigke Ally Zerigke

1:15pm

I imagine if they're already to the point of justifying their own death, they're already not in a healthy state of mind

BackPacker

1:55pm

It's so tragic. If you feel your life is so bad that you believe the best

Mitty

3:07pm

I don't think we can understand it. The obituary in this case talks about how

Mitty

3:04pm

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