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Originally posted by Ustwo
While this is true with the grunts, its just the opposite for the medical people. The military pay for docs is pretty bad and they recruit on the premise that you can be lazy (I kid you not) and not worry about getting sued. As such you either have young doctors just out of school paying for scholarships with their time, and a lot of guys who couldn't cut it in private practice. Now I'm sure there are some great docs in the military, but on average I'd stay away. At one recruitment event I asked the recruiter if I'd be working on base personnel?s children if I signed up. He said unless I was stationed overseas I most likely wouldn't be since in the states they get private insurance and take them off base.
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Wow, you sure have a lot of degrees!
Anyway, in terms of the medical care, I don't know anyone who went "off base." My family always went to military hospitals because it was 100% coverage.
The doctors were top-notch and had excellent equipment. Given that we invest a huge amount of money into training and maintaining our troops, it shouldn't be surprising that we would want to keep them healthy!
I don't even know what you mean by "private practice" since the days of people seeing patients in their homes ended like 50 years ago. AFAIK, med students are groomed for their future as soon as they start their training. In our university, for example, the students are trained in the hospitals and pretty much know where they are going to go after graduation. I suspect that military medical staff enlist
before they embark on their training, not after they "discover" they can't make it in "private practice."