Posted by stargazer2 on November 20, 2008, at 19:53:36
In reply to Lovely Docs Plan Early Retirement and Cuts Backs, posted by Phillipa on November 19, 2008, at 19:19:46
Phillipa, same as what happened with nursing.
Except now, more are going into nursing (often times as a second career) due to the shortages and wages finally coming up to levels that were not there for many years.
Many nurses left hospital settings and went into non-clinical areas where the burn out rate is much lower than in the hospitals. After the 80's health care in hospitals got extremely chaotic and continues and is much worse today. If you were trained back in the 70's or 80's, everything you learned in nursing schools has gone out the window. Today's nurses just do the immediate needs, forget teaching and preventative care (no time). And the patients are so much sicker today. The diseases that many get in their teens or 20's, you never saw 20 years ago.
I don't blame the docs for catching up with the exodus of nurses. The only thing that the docs in longer was probably higher wages and the need to pay back their med school loans.
Survival is a basic instinct for all animals. Get out or die (or develop cancer or depression).
The choice is always yours.
SG
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