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life as a physician |
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You are profoundly retarded |
| Date Posted: |
05/26/2001 |
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Any professional earning risk free dollars does not deserve to be the highest paid!
Certain lawyers and investment bankers earn buckets of money because they threw themselves at the mercy of a competitive market place. Doctors manage to plod along earning excellent salaries without any need to market themselves or compete agressively. I come from the traditional school which beleives that the higher the risk, the higher the return! Doctors face no risk and still earn an excellent return- this defies economics! |
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I am a senior MD student and would like to comment on some things said on this forum.
Risk-free money? What a crock of shit. When your dying arse is on the operating table MDs risk their licenses, income, sanity and even freedom to save you. Even in non-surgical specialties, when something goes wrong with the patient, an MD will get screwed due to perennially less available excess malpractice insurance, which is, I might add, obscenely expensive.
No need to market themselves for MDs? You damn fool. OF COURSE there exists such a need, and you will see it in subway and bus-side ads everywhere. Not to mention all the TV commercials that hospitals air.
No need to compete agressively? Ha!!! That's all we friggin' do, compete - to get into a med school, to obtain a residency, to get you as a patient and to get paid by your cheap insurance whose managers think your rotting health only deserves the bare minimum necessary to keep you alive.
Unless you have seen the inside of this profession, shut up, unless you plan to elicit laughter or flaming messages such as this one.
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