Reaction from a medical student after Schwarzenegger’s proposal of a doctor tax:

Even doctors in training are figuring out how the plan might affect them. Some physicians believe Schwarzenegger’s plan might drive doctors out of state, but University of Southern California medical student Julia Cormano says she would stay in California””but reconsider her choice of specialties. Cormano, co-president of the med school’s students’ association, says the talk on campus is whether students, who can carry as much as $200,000 in loans, would be forced out of general medicine with the additional drain on future income. “(The plan) would make it that much more difficult to go into fields that aren’t well-compensated,” says Cormano.