| One doctor with a thriving medical practice in California, | | | | available part-time job with a restaurant chain; this |
| suddenly accepted a position in a corporation; he | | | | position began his exit from private practice. Those |
| traded his shingle for a corporate name plate. He | | | | were days when the work was done at a breakneck |
| states that his job was no longer thrilling. His impression | | | | pace and he was examining some 60 food handlers in |
| was that he was doing little more than simply having | | | | an hour. Although he was reluctant to give up his |
| conversations with patients. He had enjoyed more | | | | practice, he would later become the medical director |
| complex aspects of the medical profession, such as | | | | of two movie studios. This position offered him greater |
| obstetrics and surgery, but his group had to stop such | | | | opportunities; the patient wasn't responsible for paying |
| treatments because of expensive malpractice | | | | so he could treat them without limit and he could |
| insurance. His practice had become nothing more than | | | | practice preventative medicine. In the past a doctor |
| a required stop for patients to reach a specialist. When | | | | working in the corporate realm was seen as |
| you would like to get more information on medical jobs | | | | somebody who failed at private practice. They were |
| check out this site. These days you will find the doctor | | | | looked at as the doctor who was allowed to bandage |
| working for a well known pharmaceutical company. He | | | | up cuts and examine people who weren't sick. |
| is among the increasing ranks of doctors who have | | | | However this view is changing, with new laws on |
| transitioned into the corporate realm. The corporate | | | | product and occupational safety the corporate doctor |
| world offers medical research, support and | | | | has a lot more responsibility and freedom, allowing |
| development jobs that free the doctor from the | | | | them higher levels of respect in the medical field. A |
| complications of insurance and the worries over | | | | major New York telecommunications company's |
| funding and research grants. These doctors aren't | | | | medical director says that it is rather refreshing to be |
| having any trouble finding work, either, as there is one | | | | actually "practicing" medicine again. Doctors at earlier |
| city that's more than happy to give them jobs. | | | | stages of their careers are able to be as successful |
| Although they remain in the medical area of the | | | | or even more so than they might be otherwise. Those |
| corporate world, the jobs offered in drug research or | | | | who have been working in medicine longer are typically |
| occupational health are just too enticing. The | | | | willing to forgo greater income levels, as they are |
| compensation offered by the municipality can rival that | | | | financially able to do so. Some corporate physicians |
| of private practice. Benefits of these new corporate | | | | are saying that in terms of quality of lifestyle and |
| positions include regular hours with vacation time, | | | | career earnings, the change from private practice is |
| teaching and study opportunities, company paid | | | | well worth it. Many of my peers in private practice, in |
| malpractice insurance and benefit packages that can | | | | the early years of this phenomenon, looked on a |
| equal the practitioner's salary. Although they represent | | | | change to occupational medicine as a foolish action. In |
| less than two percent of the physician population in the | | | | one doctor's opinion, many of those who did not make |
| United States, trade and professional groups estimate | | | | the switch are now envious of those who did. Most of |
| thousands of doctors are now employed in full-time | | | | the corporate doctors who are pulling in the largest |
| corporate positions. Hired to facilitate everything from | | | | incomes are those who chose to give up their |
| employee health issues to product and industrial safety, | | | | stethoscopes. One example of this is of a doctor who |
| today there's probably thousands of physicians in | | | | never once practiced medicine, and is a multimillionaire |
| occupational medicine. In similar roles, over 10,000 more | | | | at the age of 78. He earned his first million by |
| doctors serve in part-time positions. Many of the | | | | revamping his father's pharmaceutical company while |
| physicians have chosen to enter the pharmaceutical | | | | he was still in medical school. He then set up a surplus |
| field, while thousands of others are claims consultants | | | | army field hospital to fight famine in the Ural Mountains |
| and medical underwriters for insurance companies. | | | | of the Soviet Union after he graduated from medical |
| Read this site if you want doctor jobs in information. | | | | school. He discovered that food, not medicine, was |
| Today, a common corporate position for a doctor is | | | | most needed; in the process of importing grain, he |
| the chief medical director for a major insurance | | | | established the trade contacts that became the |
| company. One doctor seeking a change from his | | | | stepping stones for his future business career. |
| already established private practice, accepted an | | | | |