Yes, John.... Good on 'ya for figuring out what patients need is to be heard.

Long term, there will be new doctors to take the place of those who quit; they will start their training and careers with different expectations than we. I have a friend, completing second year WWAMI at University of Washington. He just wants to be a doctor, primary care in Alaska,actually, and figures he will take the economics that exist when he gets there. I think very few of us had a specific economic model in mind when we started. At least I know I didn't. I was in my last year of residency when I learned not all medical specialties paid the same.

David Grauman MD
Department of Medicine
Commonwealth Health Center
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands