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Our government is preparing to make good on a half-century-old promise to go social on the med profession.
A few reasons not to go to med school:
Doctors can never refuse care to you even if they can rest assured you will not pay them for their service.
They are NEVER allowed to make mistakes.
It takes a fortune to set up a practice that might land you in jail because after you perform some sort of simple surgery your foolish patient didn't take his antibiotics and change his bandage rendering said patient gangrenous and in need of amputation and a kidney-damaging bombardment of meds.
What if being a Chef held the same expectations as being an MD? You could never refuse someone service for unwillingness to pay meaning you have to feed everyone who walks in ... and feed them well lest you be held accountable for a substandard meal. If your customer isn't offered first priority over your other slave-driving customers somehow you are not doing your job. Wait, that sounds a lot like what people expect when going to a restaurant credit card in hand. Why do people expect to walk,crawl or be wheeled in to a medical facility for free?
Face it folks, on Med Care, entitlement is driving this without consideration for the insane amount of schooling, insuring and accountability that goes into being that guy or gal YOU insist make your life more comfortable if not downright save it from YOU.
Face it folks, on Med Care, entitlement is driving this without consideration for the insane amount of schooling, insuring and accountability that goes into being that guy or gal YOU insist make your life more comfortable if not downright save it from YOU.
8 comments:
Bluto,
While I agree with you that malpractice litigation has gotten out of hand, it seems that (at least for most people) the medical profession has been pretty lucrative. The problem is that it costs about $200,000 T0 $300,000 to get a medical degree (usually through loans), and today's typical doctors will spend the first 5-10 years living like a pauper doing their internship and residency while paying off their school loans. By the time he or she is cleared of the loans, they're usually middle-aged family people, paying off credit card debts and large mortgages like the rest of us. Eventually, the doctor will achieve financial security, but they are well past their physical prime to go out and really enjoy life when this all happens.
Yes, Doctors have the potential of having their licenses revoked due to malpractice -- but such instances are pretty rare. Think about it, Bluto, what would happen if you installed sprinklers in multi-million dollar home or business and they malfunctioned due to faulty equipment (or installation), causing untold damage. Do you have insurance to cover yourself in such an event?
Absolutely my company is insured against such 'malpractice'. In fact this insurance is the most prohibitive element to going into the sprink business.
My point is that people expect miracles from doctors and if they don't get one they sue. They expect perfect bedside manner as if they won't leave a tip when this is over and then don't have the intention of paying for the life saving experience. Doctors are expected to offer up perfect service in the face of dumb ass patients with Internet access who've already run the diagnosis. They can't understand why the doctor doesn't just deal up the meds.
It costs more than that to get that sort of degree btw.
I went to school for 6 years and before that I was already bringing in 30k per year. It cost me about 180k just to stop working let alone the raises I might have achieved over that time. Add that to tuition, etc.
People expect way to much from the medical community. They think they are entitled to being cared for. Think think it's a right. Hell FOOD isn't even a right.
they think ... i mean
I know exactly what you mean by the high expectations from the medical field in this day and age.
I also know exactly how careful doctors are in making sure they know your medical history, allergies, past drug contradictions, etc. The hours you spend filling out medical history forms -- over and over and over again -- each time you see a new doctor, and sign medical release statements, and a hundred and one other questions and statements, is largely due to the medical liability issues.
Off-topic here, but what would you think about petitioning the HJ to show addresses in addition to screennames?
While it might give some indication of place of employment, it'd cut back on multiple screennames.
Whatsay?
IP addresses..
It wouldn't work shdware. I can rub a proxy with ease that makes it look like I'm sitting in Russia typing this. This is Se7en by the way.
Shdware,
7 makes a good point. It sounds like a good idea, but all it will do is keep honest people honest. Otherwise it grants legitimacy to those who will take the time to bounce their IP addy all over the place. It makes the problem worse because those trying to buy credibility by using extra names to bolster their position will pull it off with more clout.
As it is, we see who they are, and when we are accused of it, we know who we are.
No sweat really.
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