Comments on: "Why are doctors such ass-holes?"

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:55:00 +0000

Better not let Catron hear that. He says it can’t be done and you’re abandoning the poor if you do try.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:19:00 +0000

I decided to stop letting the “system” tell me how to practice, and went from scheduling 4 patients per hour to a max of 2. Lower overhead meant that I made the same income with only a 30% increase in the per visit fee. I liked it. Patients liked it. No one elses opinion counts.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:41:00 +0000

It's interesting that like all things Kevin sees as problems in medicine, that "the system" gets blamed.

Until physicians start taking responsibility for themselves, and realizing that they are a major player in creating "the system", not much is going to change.

An asshole is an asshole, regardless of the time they have to bill for it.

By: Rian

Rian — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:33:00 +0000

An equally appropriate question to ask would be "Why are doctors such pretentious twats when they come to the pharmacy?"

And I mean that, too. I'd rate the group, on the whole, at about a 9.5 on the pretentiousness scale. I'd rate lawyers, as a group, as a perfect 10, with their doctor buddies not far behind.

I wonder what that means in the perennial doctor-lawyer wars. Probably nothing. Those that are well-off tend to rate around an 8 on that same scale, so I guess it makes sense.

By: Bayle

Bayle — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:53:00 +0000

True as that may be, I don’t believe PA’s should treat patients in 15 minutes either. The point is to avoid errors.