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Why Doctors Are Sick of Their Profession
All too often these days, I find myself fidgeting by the doorway to my exam room, trying to conclude an office visit with one of my patients. When I look at my career at midlife, I realize that in many ways I have become the kind of doctor I never thought I'd be: impatient, occasionally indifferent, at times dismissive or paternalistic. Many of my colleagues are similarly struggling with the loss of their professional ideals.
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Having the government Obamacase breathing down their necks will surely make it better...
The way I see it is that doctors are sick of their profession because they sacrifice their entire 20s, early 30s, to work 80 hours a week and take on a boatload of debt before their careers even begin. And then after all of that, they have to hear a bunch of shit from other people saying how greedy they are and that they are just in it for the money.