
Originally Posted by
Tricuspid
This is ridiculous. It is possible that reimbursements will drop, but the US is in a shortage that is why they are opening up new medical schools. US doctors make the most in the world, so it is possible salaries could drop, but there is no way that nurses will have higher salaries.
Doctors will always be responsible for diagnosing and will always be taught more than nurses. Nurses may take procedures, but there will always be a place for doctors.
and the US roads are paved in gold…
guess what? there ARE some nurses (i.e. CRNAs) that do make equal to more than some MDs…there ARE places where NPs (those DNPs) are pretty much autonomous …
the reductions in reimbursements are indeed affecting specialties…go over to sdn and read the nephrology forum…
the "shortage" frankly is a disproportional placement of physicians…too many in NYC, not enough in Wyoming…and what with an increase in med school grads and no equal increase in residency spots…the "shortage" really wouldn't be helped…we would still be turing out roughly the same number of trained physicians as we do now…there will just be more people competing for those spots.
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