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What meetings do doctors generally have? I've interned at several doctors offices.....they had a meeting maybe once a month
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<p>Clearly you've never worked at a hospital before, and a large percentage of all doctors work in hospitals. Believe me, hospital meetings are about some of the most turgidly boring meetings on the face of the planet. </p>
<p>But if you don't believe me, then why don't you ask the doctors you work with about the meetings they had to sit through when they were residents at some teaching hospital. Ask them whether they ever had to endure Dilbert-esque politics and meetings that bored them to tears. </p>
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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.
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<p>But it's the same thing in effect. When people elect to get cheap surgery in another country, that's less work for the doctors here, and so less money for doctors here to make. The low-hanging fruit of medical tourism is elective surgery off the top - surgery that insurance won't pay for and that people don't absolutely need, like cosmetic surgery and LASIK. Nobody 'needs' to get a facelift. Nobody 'needs' a boob job. So insurance won't pay for it. In that case, why not fly to another country to get it while it's cheap. But that simply means that that there is less work for the doctors here to do, and so less money to be made. </p>
<p>And you talk about board certification. Why don't you read the articles carefully, or perhaps read more articles available on the Net. You will see that many of the Indian doctors are completely board certified - because they had studied in the US and practiced in the US, and then decided to go back to India. So they have all the board certifications that allowed them to practice in the US. Hence, they are completely qualified to to provide care to a US medical tourist. </p>
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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.
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<p>And like I said, even the non-star IB's make a very comfortable living. You have to admit that making over 100k when you're only 22, as many IB's fresh out of school do, is pretty darn good. That's not the salary for the stars - that's the TYPICAL pay for a Wall Street banker fresh out of college. </p>
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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.
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<p>Oh? And what about the medical profession. I keep pointing out, but you refuse to acknowledge, that not everybody who wants to get into medical school actually gets in. In fact, only a fraction of them do. So think about those people who did premed, worked really hard, and still didn't get into medical school. Clearly for those people, school didn't teach them what they needed to know to get a career in medicine. Their career is over before it ever started. </p>
<p>Salesmanship in IB is what is necessary to make you a star. But like I said, if you're not a star, you're still going to make a very comfortable living - more comfortable than the average doctor. A doctor who is a star will make a lot of money. A banker who is a star will make even more money. But a doctor who is not a star will not make as much as an investment banker who is not a star.</p>