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The darker side of being a doctor

282 points · 342 comments · Danhale93

  1. ransom1538 · · focus · HN ↗
    "I have lost control of my days. I had worked in a hospital where I was oncall 24/7, 12 days out of 14. I had fortnightly weekends off."

    Medicine is ran by a bunch of creepy boards. "ACGME Review Committee for Dermatology." For example gets together and votes on how many Dermatologist we get, fun fact it doesn't go up much.

    $They were so kind to add 400 more Dermatologist$ in the past decade to the student pipeline.$ What could the rea$son be?

    What I would do if you are a doctor and don't hate humans - ask these boards to let more people in (hopefully Americans, but Americans have an uphill climb getting accepted with the flood of fraud applications from around the world).

    1. reverius42 · · focus · HN ↗
      > hopefully Americans

      Why? Do you think Americans make better doctors?

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