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Thank you for posting this. This story illustrates how the medical malpractice crisis is hurting medical practice and its practitioners.
Sorry. Re: the above. I think I made the understatement of the decade. The story illustrates how the malpractice is destroying medicine and its practitioners!
And yet the healthcare industry grows at a record pace, consuming more and more dollars, and making physicians the highest paid profession in the world. Not to mention the profits of their liability carriers
Some destruction. All the rest of us should be so lucky as to have our industries similarly “destroyed”.
This post again shows us the dillema in the emergency room. Here, there was no emergency and the proper course of action is followed. The hard part is of course that the patient did not follow up with their primary care doctor and as a result the ER doc is the one sued.
Even though the patient is stabilized and referred back to their doctor, we are left on the hook for the patients not following up. The answer is to test the patient in the ER for everything raise the costs of medicine further. It is what it is.
“And yet the healthcare industry grows at a record pace, consuming more and more dollars, and making physicians the highest paid profession in the world.”
Highest paid profession in the world? What kinda crack is this screwy guy smoking?
The Department of Labor’s. On an hourly basis, physicians are in the top 10% in the US.
What does top 10% mean? more than $100K/year?
How is that the highest paid profession?
I meant top 10% as far as hourly wage. Compensation/hours worked.
Physicians average just over $150K a year in the US. That’s $50K higher than the next highest profession, lawyers.
It doesn’t make a lot of sense to compare professions because that is not apples to apples. It makes more sense to compare what physicians who were top in their class from high school through college in terms of leadership positions, grades, community service, etc. could make if they were to become say lawyers. I was accepted to a tier I top 10 law school and I’m sure if many of medical school friends who are smarter and more motivated than myself had tried their hand at something else they would be extremely successful. How much do you think I would have made if I had chosen to go that route?
Good point anon 2:38. Most medical students would be at the top of their class in Law school. Or in their MBA class, or whatever. People who get into medical school are smart and work very hard. And because being a doctor is tough work, and takes a lot of training, doctors command a high price.
“Most medical students would be at the top of their class in Law school.”
Maybe, maybe not. And, being in the top of your class doesn’t mean that you’re that great a lawyer.
“It doesn’t make a lot of sense to compare professions because that is not apples to apples.”
I’m not comparing professions, I’m comparing compensation. Being top of your class in high school has nothing to do with your ability to make money.
At the end of the day, for all this talk of “destruction” of the medical profession, you’re still the best paid profession by far. So perhaps some of the whining is a little premature.
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