Quote Originally Posted by HitsvilleUSofA View Post
Becoming a doctor is no longer about helping anyone. that breed is long gone.You could be wheeled into an er with all 4 limbs missing and if you are uninsured the best they will do for you is clamp down the veins to stop the bleeding and set you out in front of the hospital to wait for ride home.

There are no more doctors left in this country. They died in the early 70s.
My daughter is a primary care physician. Her boyfriend is an internist. Both grew up in lower middle-class families. They work 60 hour weeks often doing their paperwork after dinner or on Saturday. She has to deliver babies at all hours of the night. Neither cares much about money. Most of their patients are poor. My daughter is recovering from a pulmonary embolism herself which I suspect has to do with years of overwork. When their schedules allow them to get together on weekends, they wind up falling asleep on the couch. Her boyfriend often misses dinner [[an issue) because he does a lot of unrequired work at the hospital, has long conversations explaining things to families, and double checking. They drive a Ford Escort and a Chevy Malibu. Everyone of her young doctor friends I've met are similarly more focused on work they enjoy than whatever they get out of it. Remember that med school now costs about $100,000 at a state school and the nice paychecks do not appear until doctors are about 27 and deeply in debt. So from my perspective, what you wrote is total nonsense.

Doctors deal with whatever work shows up in front of them. Your problems are with health care management and government policies.

Every one of the young doctors I know would like a more Canadian like health care system . They would gladly give up the larger paychecks for more time off. Who would serve the public then is another problem.

Sorry to diverge from Bats comment but yours was so absurd it needed addressing. I'm still trying to find out why Bats thinks that, "A free market would help the primary care folks most of all."