The Most Powerful Medical Association In The U.S. Gears Up To Fight Congress Over Guns

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25. They AMA has become a tool of the Pharmaceutical Industry, bought and paid for.

They are not limiting medical students; the "free market" does a wonderful job of that, importing physicians trained elsewhere because they cost less and will tolerate harsher working environments. The children of American doctors don't wish to become doctors themselves. They've seen what mom or dad has to put up with.

We'd have more primary care physicians willing to work for lower wages if we paid for their educations and improved their working conditions. Nobody wants to go to school for so many years, and suffer a harsh poorly paid residency, just to be an assembly line worker dispensing expensive pharmaceuticals, or referring patients to even more expensive specialists.

All the "altruistic" professions are constantly screwed over by the money people; doctors, teachers, nurses, all the people who desire to help others. Those that survive have either hearts of gold, or they are sociopaths who simply don't care about the quality of their work, just the "productivity" measured in $$$, which has little relation at all to overall public health or education.