Comments on: Money talks http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/money-talks.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/money-talks.html#comment-86011 Anonymous Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:03:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/06/money-talks-2.html#comment-86011 "Pay and honor primary care . . . "<br/><br/>But who is to be compelled to pay? Who is to be compelled to give honor and by whom?<br/><br/>Better to end centralized price fixing and let the market decide. If in the end, the public is not willing to pay primary care commensurate with the resources required for their training and motivation, then the public shall not have it. <br/><br/>It may be that this culture really wants and is only willing to pay for, and therefore deserves, disjointed uncoordinated and impersonal high tech care consisting of a string of procedures.<br/><br/>If so, then let it be. “Pay and honor primary care . . . “

But who is to be compelled to pay? Who is to be compelled to give honor and by whom?

Better to end centralized price fixing and let the market decide. If in the end, the public is not willing to pay primary care commensurate with the resources required for their training and motivation, then the public shall not have it.

It may be that this culture really wants and is only willing to pay for, and therefore deserves, disjointed uncoordinated and impersonal high tech care consisting of a string of procedures.

If so, then let it be.

]]> By: Toni Brayer MDhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/money-talks.html#comment-85990 Toni Brayer MD Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:23:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/06/money-talks-2.html#comment-85990 Do you really think young students decide to be doctors because they have a life long dream of passing gas (anesthesia) or reading X-rays or treating skin or doing urology? No, they learn that these specialties are the R.O.A.D. (radiology, opthalmology, anesthesia, derm) To Happiness while they are in training. Pay and honor primary care and you will see a shift. Until that happens, young doctors will make choices that are fun and lucrative. Do you really think young students decide to be doctors because they have a life long dream of passing gas (anesthesia) or reading X-rays or treating skin or doing urology? No, they learn that these specialties are the R.O.A.D. (radiology, opthalmology, anesthesia, derm) To Happiness while they are in training. Pay and honor primary care and you will see a shift. Until that happens, young doctors will make choices that are fun and lucrative.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/money-talks.html#comment-85989 Anonymous Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/06/money-talks-2.html#comment-85989 Duh! Duh!

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/money-talks.html#comment-85983 Anonymous Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/06/money-talks-2.html#comment-85983 Whereas, hanging on a cross for peanuts is SO much more admirable. Whereas, hanging on a cross for peanuts is SO much more admirable.

]]> By: IVF-MDhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/money-talks.html#comment-85978 IVF-MD Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/06/money-talks-2.html#comment-85978 I'm on faculty at two medical schools (one MD, one DO). My talks are to 3rd year students, after my lectures, I have started polling them on what factors they consider when choosing their future specialty and the #1 answer -- LIFESTYLE. When I ask what that means, one student clarified, the maximum compensation for the minimum hours worked. Very blunt and honest. I’m on faculty at two medical schools (one MD, one DO). My talks are to 3rd year students, after my lectures, I have started polling them on what factors they consider when choosing their future specialty and the #1 answer — LIFESTYLE. When I ask what that means, one student clarified, the maximum compensation for the minimum hours worked. Very blunt and honest.

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