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To: Xenalyte; NYorkerInHouston

Maybe you should go to medical school (4 years at about $30,000 a year tuition, plus living expenses), and then work 100 hours a week as a resident for 4 years, getting paid about what a McDonald's manager makes for a 40 hour week (while your $150,000+ in student loans are accruing interest), and then fork over $50-100,000 a year in malpractice insurance, and pay rent for your office space and salaries to your administrative and nursing staff, and spend lots of unpaid hours reading journals in your field to keep up with advances so you can give your patients the best treatment available, and so you don't get sued -- and then charge patients $20 a pop to tap into all the skills and knowledge you've acquired.

If doctors got paid what you seem to think "they are worth", nobody with a 3 digit IQ would become a doctor.


104 posted on 05/19/2005 11:15:33 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

"nobody with a 3 digit IQ would become a doctor."

So that's why all the low IQ doctors. (hehe, just kidding. too easy.)

The same thing has already happened in the engineering world. Same after hours study to be the best and loads of education and experience required. The problem is that a lousy engineer is all that 99.9999% of businesses know to expect, so they develop horribly engineered products. This goes for software, electronic, mechanical, chemical, etc. Engineering student entry into universities has dropped considerably over the past few years.


117 posted on 05/19/2005 12:06:13 PM PDT by shellshocked (They're undocumented Border Patrol agents, not vigilantes.)
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