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life as a physician |
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Doc Mike is a moron |
| Date Posted: |
10/03/2001 |
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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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""MDs risk their licenses, income, sanity and even freedom to save you.""
You lose no licence because you are covered by insurance. You shouldn't lose your sanity because you are helping people and you CHOSE to enter medicine. Freedom...we live in the U.S.
""malpractice insurance, which is, I might add, obscenely expensive""
That is included in your overhead. It's called the cost of doing business. Everyone pays for costs like this. Deal with it. You earn enough. You can afford it.
""No need to market themselves for MDs? You damn fool. OF COURSE there exists such a need""
Give me a break you aren't an ambulance chaser. Physicians acquire their business through referrals not because of ads or commercials. You won't see a physician on a late night t.v. commercial begging for your business or one with an ad on the back of a phone book. Get a reality check idiot.
""Unless you have seen the inside of this profession""
So why are you talking. You are just a student scared off by irrational fears.
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