<p>" If you choose not to start your own practice, but rather work in a hospital or other health-care facility, then you never have to worry about office politics or sitting around in boring meetings, right?"</p>
<p>What meetings do doctors generally have? I've interned at several doctors offices.....they had a meeting maybe once a month.</p>
<p>"So are you still maintaining your position that medicine can never be outsourced?"</p>
<p>Medical toursism is NOT outsourcing! That is when someone picks his ass up and leaves the country for an operation. The US hospitals are not laying of local doctors and hiring doctors in India, and they're not shipping patients on boats to India either. In fact, the AMA has even banned radiology outsourcing...saying that Indian doctors cannot read an x-ray if they're not board certified. It's illegal for hospitals to even ship an x-ray to a non-board-certified doctor.</p>
<p>....thus, medical jobs cannot ever be outsourced.</p>
<p>"IB, especially at the high end, is really like sales. "</p>
<p>exactly my point! Being a star salesman is something you're born with, like NBA stars. Sure the top stars get the millions, but most are left on the bench. A doctor, even the less talented ones, are still guaranteed a cushy lifestyle...they can easily afford a million dollar house on loan. </p>
<p>Most IBers may get a degree, but won't pass the litmus test in the field. School's not going to teach them salesmanship.....it's like the popularity contest at high school....some people may never make the "in crowd" no matter what they do, and the teachers can't teach them to be "in" either.</p>