Only 54% of doctors would choose a career in medicine again, only 11% feel "rich"

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51. no, I am a medical lab technician

I don't have insurance either. And I just told my sister the other day, if I keel over the hospital will come and get me, not because they give a fuck about me, but because I own my house so they'll just treat me, put a lien against my house or throw me out in the street.

But don't confuse the hospital with the doctors that work their. Hospital administration and doctors are not the same thing. The doctors are just cogs in a wheel there.

I have a doctor I go to when I'm sick. He's against the insurance industry and not affiliated with a hospital, so between a rock and a hard place. But he finds the cheapest place to get lab work done, he works holistically and his patients stay healthy.

Same with my doctor when I lived in Massachusetts. He was western MD and ayurvedic physician, and charged no more than a regular MD, but spent enormous time with each patient giving the best of both worlds.

Don't confuse the doctors with the system they are trapped in. Because like anyone else, there are good ones and there are bad ones. Believe me, I've had my share of bad ones. So you sift through and find the good ones and then stick with them.

I saw a Massachusetts MD in private practice interviewed on tv a few years back. Universal healthcare left her with so many patients she worked 7 days/week. All day, 7 days/week with a full staff handling administration, and was forced to turn crying people away because of the shortage of doctors.