Comments on: Physician recruiting: Money talks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:17:00 +0000

"they will eventually realize that the providers are in the art of medicine for no one but themselves and do no harm applies solely to the pocketbooks and social status of the provider class."

I find this post curious. I think you are looking for a saint, not a physician. Docs are human beings, just like you. We want to help people, but we also want to be financially successful. What makes you think that there are 500,000 kindly altruists in our capitalist society, that will happily put the needs of others over the needs of themselves and their families?

As with any human needs, there is always a balance of what is best for the individual over duty to others. Docs fight to achieve this balance everyday, some more successfully than others. The granting of an MD does not change human desires for material things- and it is foolhardy for you to even think this could be true.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:02:00 +0000

Thats the funny thing about medicine, you can choose to have a great life or a miserable life. Many are suffering, many are thriving- it comes down to making the right choices. Medicine is a path to success, not a guarantee. Done right, being a doc will lead to money, prestige and the chicks, done wrong and it will bring misery.

Those suffering will complain bitterly, those thriving will quietly count their blessings. Just like most things in life.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:55:00 +0000

“You non-physicians are just jealous. We have the money, the prestige, and we even get the chicks.”

So much for the lie of being “killed” by malpractice insurance premiums. By the way, this is exactly what the idolaters need to here. Even they will eventually realize that the providers are in the art of medicine for no one but themselves and do no harm applies solely to the pocketbooks and social status of the provider class.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:47:00 +0000

I thought you all worked 200 hours a week and didn’t make enough to pay your malpractice coverage, much less your rent?

Where are you finding time to score w/ all the babes?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:39:00 +0000

You non-physicians are just jealous. We have the money, the prestige, and we even get the chicks.

If only you guys had the brains and determination to go to medical school perhaps you wouldn’t be so bitter. Society has to have both winners and losers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:33:00 +0000

Not to mention the sanctimonious drivel about how all proposals, from increased Medicare reimbursements to tort reform, are all about improving things “for the patients” and how “patients lose” when these things don’t happen.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:32:00 +0000

Please, there have been far too many posts on the inherent goodness of physicians v. all the rest of us who work for a living.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:16:00 +0000

"It's about the money.

At least you guys can finally admit it."

No one ever said it wasn't.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:42:00 +0000

Next you will let the drug rep samoles / bribes influence what you prescribe.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:32:00 +0000

After all the posts extolling the virtuousness of physicians, the truth comes out.

It's about the money.

At least you guys can finally admit it.