if doctors were paid for studying, and were plentiful and therefore cheaper, would we idolise them?

Question

if we didnt torture interns for years with dangerously long hours & sleep deprivation, and we paid doctors to study [as in justice we should, since study is work], would doctors be more plentiful, cheaper, and less idolised and more real and ordinary and natural?

is the punishing internship and the long years part of a plan to keep numbers low and therefore price of doctors high?

[adam smith [father of economics] said: people never get into a group except to defraud the people

and shakespeare said similarly: there is unlimited profit in limited professions

AMA: when america was being flooded with highly trained european doctors before and during ww2, the numbers of doctors did not increase at all - they were kept out by pretending that american doctoring was so different from european

chemists, plumbers use the same trick - any expensive profession - it is only because of limiting the profession - govts could intervene to decide numbers so these professions were not expe

Answer 1

US government definitely needs to crack down on labor monopolies if it wants to cut the cost of medicine among other things.

Answer 2

I agree. At the end of every semester with passing grades, they should be reimbursed, for lets say 75% of the cost of their studies. And in Europe, they are not tortured as interns so why the need to do it in the USA? Its stupid. I studies law and tried to do as much pro-bono work as I could but with the pressure of repaying 60,000 in student loans and supporting myself, it was not so easy. ( Due to health reasons I could not study and work both at the same time so I had to borrow money.) I wish getting an andvanced degree in the USA wasn't so insenly exprensive. That is in part why I moved to Europe last year so at least myson would be able to get a good education without being indebted for half of his life!!

Answer 3

There's technology and there's healing. Healers in any community are venerated. People who apply trendy technologies to your body are paid.

Answer 4

Allow them to tell the truth and not what the drug co.'s demand and the quality of medicine will improve .But I don't idolize any one not even you and the action figures of Hollywood. Simple respect and approbation are enough, thanks.