Dave --
I think there are options for new doctors to have some of the amazing experiences I have had, but not likely in the USA. Most everything is owned by a corporation or a private equity fund, and hardly anywhere that practicing doctors can follow their patients from the office to the hospital.
The wall between the office and the hospital is a sort of semi-permeable membrane, so we really don't get a chance to work side by side other doctors. Hospital meetings are run by the corporation with corporate agendas. I don't see that the new doctors have any control over their schedules or their practice ecology. Just a cog in the corporate machine, but at least for now they make a lot more money than I do.
