Comments on: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/11/trust-me-this-is-not-by-choice.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/11/trust-me-this-is-not-by-choice.html#comment-57071 Anonymous Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/11/19403.html#comment-57071 The only ones who should get paid are the politicians and the drug dealers. The only ones who should get paid are the politicians and the drug dealers.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/11/trust-me-this-is-not-by-choice.html#comment-57070 Anonymous Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/11/19403.html#comment-57070 All professionals should work for free, including NBA and NFL players, carpenters, plumbers, architechs, landscapers, interior designers, dentists, and on and on and on All professionals should work for free, including NBA and NFL players, carpenters, plumbers, architechs, landscapers, interior designers, dentists, and on and on and on

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/11/trust-me-this-is-not-by-choice.html#comment-57066 Anonymous Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:06:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/11/19403.html#comment-57066 I took it a slightly different way. I don't think he's actually blaming the individual physician completely for the deterioration of the professional. Certainly, he is throwing some blame, but he's also noting that you are being used.<br/><br/>In short, medicine has become a business, and in all businesses, some of the soul of the professional is lost. I think anyone in any profession, at least as an independent practitioner, has that battle daily. And the last two sentences are right on point. I don't know about that "superman race" thing, though.<br/><br/>CJD I took it a slightly different way. I don’t think he’s actually blaming the individual physician completely for the deterioration of the professional. Certainly, he is throwing some blame, but he’s also noting that you are being used.

In short, medicine has become a business, and in all businesses, some of the soul of the professional is lost. I think anyone in any profession, at least as an independent practitioner, has that battle daily. And the last two sentences are right on point. I don’t know about that “superman race” thing, though.

CJD

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2005/11/trust-me-this-is-not-by-choice.html#comment-57062 Anonymous Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:26:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2005/11/19403.html#comment-57062 This is a letter to the editor written by someone who thinks he and others should have care without the responsibility of payment. Or perhaps he thinks that fair pay for fair work should apply to some but not to others. Or maybe payment obligations should only be obligations when it is convenient to treat them that way. It is a naive and extraordinarily<br/>self-indulgent perspective. If I want to be paid for the hard work I do, somehow I am inhuman if my work happens to be as a physician.<br/><br/>The writer is unfortunately not alone in his view of the world. He decries the expression of freedom inherent in another's demand of pay for work. Strangely, he thinks this is somehow the road to serfdom. He decries communism, but his voice comes straight from that camp.<br/><br/>CH This is a letter to the editor written by someone who thinks he and others should have care without the responsibility of payment. Or perhaps he thinks that fair pay for fair work should apply to some but not to others. Or maybe payment obligations should only be obligations when it is convenient to treat them that way. It is a naive and extraordinarily
self-indulgent perspective. If I want to be paid for the hard work I do, somehow I am inhuman if my work happens to be as a physician.

The writer is unfortunately not alone in his view of the world. He decries the expression of freedom inherent in another’s demand of pay for work. Strangely, he thinks this is somehow the road to serfdom. He decries communism, but his voice comes straight from that camp.

CH

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