Medicine is still the best profession, one doctor says

While bureaucratic insurance companies and government healthcare regulations have fostered the mindset for many doctors that they would tell their children to stay away from the medical profession, Joshua Maili, M.D., a vitreoretinal surgeon at a private ophthalmology practice in Sarasota, Florida, doesn't agree. "I feel inspired to defend our profession and provide evidence that proves that being a physician is still the greatest and most rewarding job on the planet," Mali writes in a blog posting on Ophthalmology Times. Providing service to humanity, job security and the "respect factor" are among his reasons to love being a doctor. Blog posting