With the growing debate on health care reform, it's a wonderful time to be an aspiring doctor. As I apply to medical school and look around me I see my peers frantically filling out applications, biting their nails before interviews, more stressed than I have ever seen them, and for what? These twenty something year old students have a genuine desire to help people. Many have had sick friends or family members and they go into the medical profession for the right reason.
What is it then that has made the medical profession so business minded in America? Most doctors go into medical school for the right reason...it's fear of malpractice lawsuits, the push to pay off debt attained from medical school, and the red tape associated with insurance companies that turns their attention to money rather than the patient.
Perhaps reforming the American health care system to turn the attention of the system back to the patient rather than money will keep these aspiring doctors on the right track of doing what they do for the right reasons.
Just another note from an aspiring doctor...
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