N.E. Journal of Medicine - doctors poll on HC reform

[DarrinS]

There's not good money out there right now. I have a friend with a Ph D in EE from a top university and 20+ years experience in algorithm design and software engineering who has been unemployed for a year and a half because he's not interested in working for what people coming out of school with BSs were getting just a few years ago. He's got pretty serious money saved up and doesn't spend a lot though.

So, basically, he made a choice.

[baseline bum]

So, basically, he made a choice.

What the is your point? Mine is these doctors aren't going to find big money leaving to other fields.

[Wild Cobra]

But excessive physician salaries contribute nearly three times more to wasteful health care spending than the $20 billion or so that defensive medicine does."

Ever stop to think that the excessive salaries are compounded by the time of the extra, normally unnecessary, procedures?

I am one that doesn't believe they make too much. However, don't forget that the unnecessary procedures increase the doctor's time for a patient, thus, the cost.

[Wild Cobra]

You almost have to. Med school is a full-time job. It's not like getting some P.O.S. liberal arts degree, where you can graduate while your bloodstream is full of bong resin and malted hopps.

Any good curriculum is like a full time job, and then some. Not only do you spend the several hours of class and lab time, but then there is all the studying and homework involved.

Who has time to work, if going to any good college and course full time?