alt Hacker NewsYou get the same problems in the US with the attitudes of doctors.
In the US, medical school is extremely expensive (like $400,000 expensive). There are many people who are excellent doctors who are just priced out of the profession. If we could make medical school less expensive (by subsidizing it and by reducing the amount of instruction), we would probably get many more excellent doctors.
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Essentially no one pays for medical school outright. They take out loans. Those loans aren’t credit based. People aren’t priced out of being doctors.
There are some schools which now offer combined BS/MD programs which cut up to two years off of the total education time. We should expand those.
https://students-residents.aamc.org/medical-school-admission...
I'd love to vote for loan forgiveness for anyone who successfully qualifies and practices as a doctor
We have the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program where qualifying public servants pay 10 years of their loans and the rest is forgiven tax free.
Removing financial stress from doctors seems like a public good most people could get behind