Think Being a Physician is a Recession-proof Job? Think Again

littlerobot
Tue, 05 Jan 2021 21:06:10 +0000

They have also found that a number of practices have been replacing EM doctors with mid-level providers as they cost considerably less. My colleagues and I see this play out with all sorts of misdiagnoses and return visits to other EDs and I think time will not be kind to this move. When you get can get an online degree in a fraction of the hours it takes to go to medical school and do a full EM residency it must seem appealing. The education is shockingly lacking and patients often think they are seeing doctors when they aren’t (or they are seeing someone with an online doctorate in nursing with a fraction of the clinical hours of an ED physician.)