<p>Sounds about right, depending on how many more seats medical schools add over the next several years.</p>
<p>Still, you get to be involved in people's lives in a way that few other professions get to be.</p>
<p>Can anyone respond to point #3 on my previous thread please (thread # 40)?</p>
<p>Well, somebody would need predictive powers of the future to make a positive comment.
And by the way, I think you mean "post", not "thread".</p>
<p>1.) Will NP's and PA's assume greater responsibility? As more and more of them are trained, I think that's certainly a legitimate possibility. Certainly if Medicare does not rectify its primary care payment discrepancy -- a legitimate possibility -- they will assume more and more of a role.</p>
<p>2.) Doctors will make less money. This would certainly be in keeping with recent trends. In particular, as medical care gets more expensive and Medicare gains market power, the government will be looking for places to squeeze dollars.</p>
<p>3.) Socialized medicine. Again, this would be in keeping with trends we're seeing in popular culture and media. Sicko is not shy about openly advocating government-based health care. Still, we're a long way from Americans placing enough trust in our government to endorse such a position.</p>
<p>Yeah, I meant post... I'm still not used to CC.</p>