Re:The Dark Side of Doctoring
by seanp2k2 on Monday May 15, 2017 @10:42PM
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200k is also on the low end. A friend of mine just finished her residency and is making almost twice that now. I did some on-site PC service for a few doctors in a job about a decade ago. They literally all had 911s and mansions. Anecdotal sure, but from what I've seen, doctors here are loaded. Anesthesiologist always seemed like the best gig....you work a few days a week, set up your schedule months ahead of time, bring in your kit and pump the person full of drugs, sit there and watch the screen for however long the surgery takes, bring them back to life, then go home with a few grand. The anesthesiologist is typically an independent contractor.
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Re:The Dark Side of Doctoring
by throwaway5752 on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:38PM
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It's great until a patient dies and you have to inform their families. You are keeping a living being in a state between life and death chemically while they are undergoing massive trauma. Do you know how much their malpractice insurance is?
It's not just hard work to become a doctor. It's hard work and sustained excellence. You don't just put in the hours, you have consume an enormous amount of information and are tested on it constantly through the education process. You have to take on enormous personal risk financially in loans. You very frequently have to make large personal sacrifice in your life to get to the point of board certification.
Some get paid great, most get paid well, but if you know more than a few doctors you would probably be less glib. /me not a doctor.
Re:The Dark Side of Doctoring
by stickfigure on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @09:57AM
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You are keeping a living being in a state between life and death chemically while they are undergoing massive trauma.
Why can't this be automated?
Its almost exactly analogous to being an airline pilot, everything easy enough to automate was automated multiple human generations ago, now the primary purpose of the human is judgment calls, emergencies, monitoring, what boils down to non-computer systems administration using hopefully sterile biochemical machinery rather than CPUs and disks, equipment failures ...
Re:The Dark Side of Doctoring
by throwaway5752 on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:18PM
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Re:The Dark Side of Doctoring
by Lordarminius on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:07AM
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You possess an uninformed opinion of what it takes to practice medicine at an acceptable level.