http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/free-medical-school.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/free-medical-school.html#comment-87253 PharmacistMike Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:56:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/09/free-medical-school.html#comment-87253 How exactly would this add to the primary care? Would the students sign a contract to always be a primary care physician? Sounds like a pact with the devil to me. How exactly would this add to the primary care? Would the students sign a contract to always be a primary care physician? Sounds like a pact with the devil to me.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/free-medical-school.html#comment-87252 Anonymous Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:37:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/09/free-medical-school.html#comment-87252 It's not just the debt. It's also the culture of medicine that prevents students from going into primary care. Debt is only a piece of the puzzle. There is very minimal understanding within the medical community that one of the biggest disincentives to primary care is the disdain with which many primary care providers are treated by academic bigwigs, or the frequent digs at primary care (You're too smart to be a primary care provider, you're wasting your talents, etc.) It’s not just the debt. It’s also the culture of medicine that prevents students from going into primary care. Debt is only a piece of the puzzle. There is very minimal understanding within the medical community that one of the biggest disincentives to primary care is the disdain with which many primary care providers are treated by academic bigwigs, or the frequent digs at primary care (You’re too smart to be a primary care provider, you’re wasting your talents, etc.)

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/free-medical-school.html#comment-87250 Anonymous Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:45:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/09/free-medical-school.html#comment-87250 great point lurker, I did not think of that great point lurker, I did not think of that

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/free-medical-school.html#comment-87249 A Regular Lurker Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:31:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/09/free-medical-school.html#comment-87249 Maybe. But going into a specialty after not having a mortgage-sized debt might be even *more* attractive. Maybe. But going into a specialty after not having a mortgage-sized debt might be even *more* attractive.

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