Would someone think of our impoverished doctors, PLEASE?
One thing I see in medicine is that they are now the equivilants of the engineering departments in manufacturing, of most hospitals. The hospitalists have little influence and lots of responsibility. A number of them dislike working for the hospital but also dislike going out on their own.
The want security.
Kleon, I am assuming your response is fecious and not to be taken seriously about “impoverished”. I am in FULL support of this march. People who criticize - just remember the years of sacrifice and study these doctors have gone through. The student loans to pay back. The occasional abusive patient and the occasional litgeous patient. And how about those monumental liability insurance payments. That’s to say nothing of some of the specialties that don’t give a doctor a full night’s sleep on many an occasion. I’m not a doctor, but I am a retired nurse. I am HUMILIATED at the token amount medicare pays my doctor for my annual physical. Unless an individual is totally selfish and blind, certainly you can see the exhaustion on many of the doctor’s faces today as they go about their job. If there is any way I can get to that march from Atlanta, you bet your bippie I’m gonna be there and take my family and/or friends with me. It’s a disgrace for the condemnation Obama has spoken in the past few months. I’m so disgusted. We have to fight and fight hard. Pravda (the Russian newspaper) said last week “the americans don’t know how to do it - you have to be in their face everyday, all day” Let’s show the Russians we DO know how to do it and have one rally after another and support this very important cause. Cheers and best wishes to all the doctors
If you want to play class warfare games, go over to DU. A real conservative could give a flip what a private citizen makes, especially when that private citizen’s life’s work is making the lives of other people longer and fuller.
The idea that these guys should train for a decade or more, work 60-80 hour weeks, pay huge malpractice insurance premiums, run the very real risk of being sued for megabucks anyway and then top it off with having some bozo bitch about how much money they make is beyond stupid.