RLoya

Public health: Steady, family-friendly hours. Decent pay and good benefits. Much more healthy work load and more sense of accomplishing good outcomes for my patients than hospital environment

Thank you for bringing up the origins of this whole issue. I had no idea but it makes a lot of sense. If healthcare became more expensive in the 70s and the government wanted to cut the costs it was going to have to pay, of course it would do whateve...

I worked in the hospital for 3 years. I never did take a liking to it and I worked weekend nights for most of it. I'm glad I pushed through because I have more confidence and respect for myself. However, I always felt like I was risking my license be...

The idea of abortion turns my stomach. So do the majority of these comments justifying it. To simply state that each person has a right to make their own decisions would have sufficed. But to go on to describe a fetus as a parasite is on a level I ca...

I hear what some of you are saying about having a Messiah complex. I think OP has a point too though. I'm glad that you guys have learned how to be at peace with some of the frustrating parts of the hospital. The hospital would be a much worse place ...

There's also the complicated issue of the healthcare system as a whole. I don't understand it completely but this is what I gather. Health insurance costs used to be pushed off onto employers. It became too expensive for employers to handle as more A...

Thank you for posting this! My experience in the hospital was also the same. Back then I would come on here looking for encouragement that there were other options besides the hospital that would have the positive environment you describe at your cur...