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I think these days, whether or not a doctor or physician assistant "wants" to do something isn't really considered in the equation.

Basically, the schools jack up the medical practitioners with hundreds of thousands in debt, and the practitioners will do absolutely whatever is required to pay it off and eek out a living :(

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I wouldn't do absolutely whatever is required to pay off my debt nor would my peers. But we can relate to the concerns of hundreds of thousands in debt as far as we can't "want" anything. We're just as trapped in the system as the patients we treat. No wonder why there is a spike in suicides after medical school.

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