The pay seems great once you make it out, but a trawl through r/residents was really eye opening about how abysmal the working conditions are for most of the training period, without any of the pay (yet). And presumably afterwards, it can get better, but especially in hospitals it seems like it’s still pretty insane sometimes.
I feel like it’s similar to any job. They really need the entry level people (nursing and doctors in training alike) as a pipeline to the specialties, but also to do a lot of the grunt work, and they need a lot of them to meet demand plus attrition, but even at low wages that’s a huge cost. Since companies under capitalism mostly exist to enrich a few people, they don’t want that. They are trying to maximize profits by abusing the mandatory training time. Potential doctors and high-skill nurses end up very low paid and very overworked, and lots of them end up not wanting to do it.
Wonder why.
Maybe the doctors themselves will be the ones to save us from this broken joke of Healthcare
