Re:Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients...
by bhupy on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:14PM
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Now you're starting to follow the thread to the root cause: onerous medical licensure and onerous medical university accreditation.
In the US, the barrier to become a doctor is higher than it is anywhere else. Nowhere else in the developed world are you forced to do 4 years of undergraduate study unrelated to medicine, followed by 4 years of Medical school, followed by 4 years of residency.
Also, one doesn't require huge debts to pursue a PA or NP degree, but many States disallow PAs and NPs from practicing basic medicine.
Not everyone needs to go through the same level of schooling as a brain surgeon.
Yes, but salaries are also linked to huge debts to pay in their first years, a permanent state of fear to be sued by negligence (losing their license and seeing their only possibility of income vanished). It seems that suicide and depression are too common among young students. They also work too many hours in irregular schedules (working in sundays, holidays or passing one on each three weekends at the hospital is not uncommon. This will add a lot of stress for parents with small children trying to having a normal life. And is a emotionally charged work.
... So either you provide a particularly high reward in form of a golden salary, or perhaps nobody would wanted to be a doctor.