Match Day: Congratulations! This is You In July.
To all those who matched, we want to say congratulations. For those who did not, we want to ask the government, why the f#ck aren’t there enough slots? You assholes. How can you cry about a physician shortage and yet not create more residency slots? It makes no sense.
This year’s match was a record for Family Medicine. Since the vast majority of this nearly five thousand young docs won’t go into DPC, all I can conclude is that they’ll be eager to work for ‘The Man’ (i.e., the clueless suits with healthcare MBAs).
Yeah, the only thing I can say is DO NOT go into F.P./I.M. PERIOD! I was fortunate to have a family, didn’t get divorced and am a widower at this time. I thought I’d die first actually. I had a 5 and a half year residency as I started out in surgery, went on to urology but was fired on the the trauma unit at Cook County in residency not of a patient issue but because of me questioning a procedural issue with the unit director (John Barrett). Got accepted back to an F.P. program where I worked in the hospital with the F.P. residents and program director on one phone call. I said, “Send me up the paperwork. I don’t care how long it takes.”
Computerization has killed primary care PERIOD!!! One can argue with me but it was so much easier reviewing labs on paper and yes later on the computer. Making docs type is a bunch of b.s. I’m so glad I’m retired from.
May God send to hell anyone who promotes primary care medicine to students. Go into a specialty one doesn’t have to be called or busy all night long!!!!
Be careful what you wish for. The majority of unmatched Americans attended Caribbean Medical schools. The Caribbean Medical schools have proliferated immensely over the last 20 years. These are people who did not match initially in American medical schools. They’re also a large proportion of foreign medical grads who are more needed in their home countries than in the United States.
Will we begin to see unmatched people who were largely admitted because of their social justice scores and are unable to handle the curriculum and who have done poorly in medical school.
Lastly there are the groups who are ” following their dream ” and trying to match in specialties that they have a low chance of matching.
The reason I say be careful what you wish for is groups are advocating for a glut of doctors to drive doctors wages down. They know if there’s a surplus of doctors coming out of residency that they can offer lowball salaries. They will be desperate and take whatever which will drive down everyone’s salaries. Who wants to spend 12 to 15 years and then end up without a job? That’s even worse than not matching. That does happen in Europe.
In addition many of the Caribbean medical school attendees have racked up half a million in debt which they want to be bailed out by the US taxpayers. Was this a good use of our tax dollars?
These are good points if the number of slots is enough cover American schools. I think it is.
Saturday night live had a skit about this, although they coded it as marriage. Same principles.
https://youtu.be/vj2fqNKwFkE?si=Ol81OL5ty8uZF9nZ