u/achicomp

You took a deserving, limited med school spot that could have gone to some other doctor slave who can work for society for 70 years!

Becoming a doctor is a calling! Like a religion! You have to work 50-60 hours a week forever to save lives, not to leave with money and to enjoy life!

There is already a physician shortage! Leaving means more work for everyone else and burnout for others! Patients have to wait longer to see a doctor!

Why is it only the tech bros get applause for quitting to play on the beach?

I have 4 kids. I can’t stomach the thought of paying for 4 kids’ worth of college and med school tuition. It was grueling to pay off my hundreds of thousands in med school loans.

Cheaper to prep them to be midlevels?

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/nurse-practitioner-is-now-the-hottest-job-in-healthcare-a98e0bc8?mod=mhp

Becky Peterson graduated this month with a degree that paves the way for her to examine patients, prescribe medication and make diagnoses, just like a physician. But she won’t be Dr. Peterson, and her graduate program took just two years.
Instead, she is becoming a nurse practitioner, a good-paying job that is also the fastest-growing field in healthcare. 

“There is a place for medical-school doctors, and a place for nurse practitioners. And all of us are trying to do the same thing, which is meet the needs of people who need help,” said Peterson, who graduated from a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill program and lives in Morrisville, N.C. She is now preparing for a certification exam and will start a mental-health residency this fall.

“Doctors cost a lot of money and nurse practitioners don’t,” said Brian McKillop, president of physician solutions at staffing company AMN Healthcare. He said employer appetite for healthcare workers whose abilities overlap with doctors—but don’t have an MD—is at an all-time high.

Meanwhile, Peterson’s two-year nurse practitioner program cost around $50,000, a fraction of what she would have spent on medical school. By contrast, the average medical-school graduate leaves with $207,000 in debt. The less-grueling training made it easier to plan and raise a family, said Peterson, who like most NPs received her bachelor of science in nursing before going on to get her advanced degree.

Patients in rural areas, in particular, have come to rely on nurse practitioners. According to federal data, 66% of rural Medicare recipients say they see a nurse practitioner or physician assistant for some or all of their medical care, compared with the 54% of urban residents who say the same. 

From reading wikipedia, apparently a super old Caesar’s law was enforced by emperor Tiberius, that required lenders to own land in Italy in order to stop money from leaving Rome and going to other countries, and this somehow forced a “great financial crisis”, which Tiberius had to correct by injecting millions of sesterces back into the economy.

Do we know why exactly this was intended? Was this the equivalent of a modern policy thinking trying to “ make rome great again” and making “Rome first” but backfired?