This guy(s) is on drugs, heavy duty drugs. I can’t recall even one physician that I run into on a daily basis that says they are not scared to death about the future, they wouldn’t want their kids to become physicians, are having difficulty paying their overhead bills, pay themselves last every month after the bills are paid, have missed paying themselves at least once in the last 12 months and are looking for either retirement or a job out of the field of medicine.
Yeah, but they ain’t over-weight - so they must be happy! (What a goofy premise.)
Never met a doctor who could manage his financez...and apparently I can’t handle my phone. Dang. But seriously in insuring doctors...most are good at healing. Not so great at finances.
It is strange about physicians and for the most part the entire medical community. Most share the following but seem to do just fine none-the-less:
1. Underpaid but most live in nice houses, drive nice cars and take nice vacations
2. Overworked, see vacations
3. Under appreciated, see underpaid and outstanding benefits save for the solo practice.
4. Hospitals never get enough revenue but are always building
The solo practice has it pretty darn tough though.
What about Dentists? They seem to be pretty well off, happy and not obese.
Obesity is very strongly class-correlated in the US. Of course, transportation workers rank poorly in that category and physicians well—with physicians having a further, practice-what-you-preach incentive not to become fat.
But if anything, I bet the same person without health insurance actually is a bit more health conscious than when they do have insurance.
Obesity is very strongly class-correlated in the US. Of course, transportation workers rank poorly in that category and physicians well—with physicians having a further, practice-what-you-preach incentive not to become fat.
But if anything, I bet the same person without health insurance actually is a bit more health conscious than when they do have insurance.
A 61-year-old internal medicine specialist that I know said recently that although people have the impression that doctors drive Cadillacs, “they now drive Ford Tauruses.”