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.

anon6:01, I don’t get it either..Have read it three times and STILL don’t get it!

Godwin’s Law:
“As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

Some of us don’t whine. We act on it. This year, I stopped taking Medicare patients. Some of us can afford to do it. Our clinic is busy enough to be able to take only patients with non Medicare insurance.

“We are just making honest comments about how much better the system would work for all (patients, doctors, the government who pays for this mess) if attorneys weren’t changing the way we do our everyday jobs.”

Of course that “all” doesn’t include patients who are injured by malpractice. Or are physicians and their insurers just going to start writing checks to cover those victims’ losses in terms of economic damages, past and future medical bills once they are uninsurable? Funny, I don’t see any of you rushing to do that until an attorney gets involved. Or maybe you just forgot about the people actually injured by malpractice. Probably too busy counting those extra dollars in your pockets that you’d have if you didn’t have to bear responsibility for your negligence.

Yes, most victims of malpractice with million dollar verdicts are lucky! They have won the cosmic lottery. Sure, they may not be able to walk, see, eat solid foods, and may be looking at requiring lifetime care which they can’t afford, and are unable to work at a job they love, hug their kids, make love to their wife, etc but they have won big!! All because their physician was drunk, stoned, had worked 24 hours without a break, or maybe, like you, just didn’t give a damn about them and didn’t much care what kind of a job he did.

And you were ready to pay them all of that out of your paycheck, so they didn’t even need a lawyer, did they?

Thanks for putting it all in perspective, doc!

” All because their physician was drunk, stoned, had worked 24 hours without a break”

ANother realistic statement, Sodomite. OK, Mr. Statistics. Show me the study which shows what percent of lawsuits involve impaired physicians? Does that mean OB_GYNS typically have drinking problems but Dermatologists don’t? And my problem is that I do care. If I didn’t care I wouldn’t give a shit that you sodomites have ruined our healthcare system by turning it into a lawyer- avoidance system.

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.

I personally think malpractice or maloccurance insurance should have been rather a shared responsibility so long you have human beings caring for others.Even you replace all doctors with fully mechanized robots, EBM being fed to them you can’t achieve 100% efficiency.When a patient has to be treated as it is now ,the patient should understand that things can go wrong. Feeding the entitlement mentality only benefits the lawyer pimps.

Bow at your feet? ha ha ha

“You’re right – that’s why the physician shouldn’t have made the comparison”

I thought the comparison was a rebuttal to the point made by some non-physicians in the column.

“”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.”

Anon 7:42 can’t be a physician , ‘insetad’ should be ‘someking’ different and definitely without a Momma. It is more lawyerly talk.

You’ve not read my post. How it’s possible .I am one of the few non-anonymice here .
OK.I understand. You are the one without MOMMA. You just swallowed my bait.

Keep your eye on the ball…order more tests!