Comments on: Marcus Welby is dead http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/marcus-welby-is-dead.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/marcus-welby-is-dead.html/comment-page-1#comment-81561 Anonymous Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:37:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/marcus-welby-is-dead.html#comment-81561 >>"Based on some of the comments posted on this web site, I'd say that far too many younger MDs appear to be totally heartless."<br/><br/>Based on some of the snide comments I read from non-medical types who lurk here, the blogosphere has plenty of self-entitled leeches who think that expecting fair dealing in professional work is some how being "heartless." You might think about growing up a little.<br/><br/>I always love how posters like yourself are so ready to suggest others are heartless for not doing what they themselves would never sacrifice. So what makes you so self- righteous, then? >>”Based on some of the comments posted on this web site, I’d say that far too many younger MDs appear to be totally heartless.”

Based on some of the snide comments I read from non-medical types who lurk here, the blogosphere has plenty of self-entitled leeches who think that expecting fair dealing in professional work is some how being “heartless.” You might think about growing up a little.

I always love how posters like yourself are so ready to suggest others are heartless for not doing what they themselves would never sacrifice. So what makes you so self- righteous, then?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/marcus-welby-is-dead.html/comment-page-1#comment-81552 Anonymous Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:56:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/marcus-welby-is-dead.html#comment-81552 "I don't believe older doctors are one bit more virtuous or harder working or more dedicated than doctors of any other age category. All they generally do tend to be is richer."<br/><br/>Based on some of the comments posted on this web site, I'd say that far too many younger MDs appear to be totally heartless.<br/><br/>Why they really entered medicine is more than I'll ever know. Do you?xf “I don’t believe older doctors are one bit more virtuous or harder working or more dedicated than doctors of any other age category. All they generally do tend to be is richer.”

Based on some of the comments posted on this web site, I’d say that far too many younger MDs appear to be totally heartless.

Why they really entered medicine is more than I’ll ever know. Do you?xf

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/marcus-welby-is-dead.html/comment-page-1#comment-81457 Anonymous Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:00:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/marcus-welby-is-dead.html#comment-81457 This "older workhorse" myth needs debunking, as does the nonsense that somehow older doctors are more motivated. They are the ones who made out well before reimbursements were curtailed and who now want to quit. In my practice experience, they are the ones looking to dump difficult patients on others and to try to hire "associates" to let them take it easy. Sorry, but calling them "workhorses" does a disservice to draft horses. <br/><br/>All I can see is doctors--young and old, no difference--who having lost the motivator of good money for hard work wanting to trade long hours for non-medical activity that while not paying as well might give other personal satisfactions.<br/><br/>I don't believe older doctors are one bit more virtuous or harder working or more dedicated than doctors of any other age category. All they generally do tend to be is richer. This “older workhorse” myth needs debunking, as does the nonsense that somehow older doctors are more motivated. They are the ones who made out well before reimbursements were curtailed and who now want to quit. In my practice experience, they are the ones looking to dump difficult patients on others and to try to hire “associates” to let them take it easy. Sorry, but calling them “workhorses” does a disservice to draft horses.

All I can see is doctors–young and old, no difference–who having lost the motivator of good money for hard work wanting to trade long hours for non-medical activity that while not paying as well might give other personal satisfactions.

I don’t believe older doctors are one bit more virtuous or harder working or more dedicated than doctors of any other age category. All they generally do tend to be is richer.

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