If I was a GM employee I'd have a pension and a lifetime guaranteed health insurance. I have neither.

GM employees were fucking around all day in high school if they even graduated...physicians were studying there asses off...gm employees deserve what they get...no pain no gain...the same goes for the rest of you losers...if you actually worked in school you could have done something productive with your lives rather than doing nothing and wasing your life away...

I wonder what it feel like to die knowing you have done nothing productive with your lives...well, I guess the attorneys and other assorted retiree losers that post here will know soon enough...

I wonder what it feels like to spend all your life working a job that you hate as badly as you hate yours. How can you speak about how much you do for the good of all man kind when you hate so badly doing it?

Most of us don't make the money you make, but, we do have our own homes, we actually own things to furnish them with. We have wonderful children, we coach baseball, we go to Christmas parties, we take vacations,we have bank accounts, our children will go to college and we like our jobs...So who is the loser?

you are a scary person!

Anon at 3:21 - GM employees include engineers who design cars some with advanced degree...

Forget GM - some commercial research labs layed off a number of scientists as well. Ours got rid of a number of physicists a few years back "why spend money on research that can be done at universities" and other researchers and engineers because "folks in India can do it as well but for less money".

But of course, from your point of view only the doctors work hard in school. The rest of us are just lazy. Including scientists or engineers.

Huh? I don't get the above comment.

Anirban, please look up Godwin's Law.

Anirban: Don't compare the lawyers to the nazis. You're being unfair to the nazis.

Godwin's law, LOL! I need to remember that. It's sure to come in handy again some day.

"Of course that "all" doesn't include patients who are injured by malpractice."

When are you going to start helping "victims". Last night I took care of 5 teenagers who were all shot in the chest or belly. It didn't even make it on the news. These are victims. You "help" individuals lucky enough to have been affected by a bad outcome where someone with deep pockets can be held responsible. Then you take 30-40% off the top. That's not helping, that's greed. If you want to "help" someone, get off your ass and use your Law Degree to make politicians give a shit when Bullets Pierce black skin. Right now you're only "helping" yourself.

Comparison to GM workers is not a good idea

1) Most GM workers have zero college education

2) Most GM workers barely graduated high school

3) Typical GM salary for entry level, blue collary, no college experience w/ overtime is close to 100k per year

4) GM guys get free healthcare

5) GM guys get lifetime pension

6) GM guys get buyout clauses if they get laid off (50k up to 150k)

7) GM guys get free college education

8) GM guys get paid full time salary if they are laid off, even if they stay at home all day and do nothing for hte company

Primary care doctors make about 30k per year more than these GM workers. The same GM workers who get free healthcare, lifetime pension, buyouts, full time pay while not working, zero college, zero grad school, zero debt, zero malpractice insurance, zero lawsuit risk.

Comparing GM workers to doctors is ridiculous

"Comparing GM workers to doctors is ridiculous"

Agreed. How many GM workers would be woken up repeatedly during the night on a regular basis with questions and requests such as?:

"My kid has a fever"
"I have a really bad headache"
"My back really hurts can you call in a prescription for Vicodin"
"Can you come into the hospital and perform an appendectomy on a no-pay patient or evacuate a subdural on a homeless drunk, or see the hospital admistrators wife with abdomianl pain who has a history of fibromyalgia and irritable bowel"

I wonder.

comparing anyone with physicians is comparing apples to oranges...these patients should be bowing at our feet; insetad they sue us trying to use us as someking of lotetry substitute...oh well, we'll just have to practice defensive medicine/referrals and screw them back...

"Comparing GM workers with physicians is misguided.A much better comparing sample should have been people with similar years of education and similar challenging jobs.But they are hard to find."

You're right - that's why the physician shouldn't have made the comparison.

"comparing anyone with physicians is comparing apples to oranges...these patients should be bowing at our feet; insetad they sue us trying to use us as someking of lotetry substitute...oh well, we'll just have to practice defensive medicine/referrals and screw them back... "

I'm sure your momma is proud.

Yeah, your posts are certainly illustrative of the high standards of physicians when it comes to grammar.

All I know is, the hell with medicine. I'm becoming a sodomite's Bitch. Mark Lanier just parlayed his bullshit sweet-talk into another multi-million dollar win. He told the jury "you can't expect to see a "V" for Vioxx on the guy's Coronary Arteries, you just have to trust me. And they did. Another 12 Suckers!

"I'm becoming a sodomite's Bitch. "

I bet you've been somebody's bitch your whole life.