tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977100937974295832.post1316373239798112022..comments2023-10-03T12:32:51.778-04:00Comments on Confessions of a Street Pharmacist: Not as lucrative as you think.Divemedichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583007051962299381noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977100937974295832.post-25708903560942424462014-02-07T18:46:44.554-05:002014-02-07T18:46:44.554-05:00Also, factor in expenses. Many pay their own malpr...Also, factor in expenses. Many pay their own malpractice insurance and other business related expenses. This is a large chunk of their pay check. I knew a doctor that had quit to be a carpenter because he actually brought home more money after everything being in construction. He also loved being a carpenter and built some amazing pieces. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977100937974295832.post-72577196830650212962013-11-27T16:46:58.774-05:002013-11-27T16:46:58.774-05:00Ouch. :(Ouch. :(Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977100937974295832.post-27902753293399940832013-11-24T20:57:38.412-05:002013-11-24T20:57:38.412-05:00No amount of money is worth the pain in my heart a...No amount of money is worth the pain in my heart and the tears on my face as I tell grieving parents that I could not save their precious child.pediemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062837495328074735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977100937974295832.post-53890869934839500242013-11-24T14:18:37.380-05:002013-11-24T14:18:37.380-05:00Further, for every neurosurgeon or invasive cardio...Further, for every neurosurgeon or invasive cardiologist pulling in the Big Union Dollars, there's a small-town GP or stethoscope jockey at the local doc-in-a-box who is making pretty "meh." money in relation to what it took to get there.<br /><br />Much like airline pilots: Everyone hears "airline pilot" and thinks about the guy in the left seat of a transoceanic 747, and not the gal in the right seat of a RJ flying back and forth between Cleveland and Chicago.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977100937974295832.post-86361677027106241872013-11-23T12:08:19.631-05:002013-11-23T12:08:19.631-05:00After watching my wife go through her cancer treat...After watching my wife go through her cancer treatments, I dropped whatever thoughts I might have had about doctors being overpaid. Yeah, I'm far making from $150 or $200k, but I don't cut people open to repair things, or know that making a single mistake might kill them right then and there. While it's true a bad design might lead to unsafe air flight, there are dozens of people who watch each other to prevent that. <br /><br />And while I've known a few doctors socially, I've never known anyone who took that responsibility lightly. True, a sociopath or psychopath might not care if they lost patients, but very few of them make it through the selection process. <br /><br />One of the unintended consequences of the coming health care reform is going to be physicians changing from being essentially dedicated to their patients and available 24/7, to being employees. The kind that <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/09/07/man-dies-after-doctor-goes-on-lunch-break-during-surgery/" rel="nofollow">go to lunch</a>, leaving a surgery in process, and let patients die for it.SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977100937974295832.post-10533850286514547952013-11-22T19:47:51.242-05:002013-11-22T19:47:51.242-05:00Leaving him with $150k a year?
More than I make.
...Leaving him with $150k a year?<br /><br />More than I make.<br /><br />And his choice to make nothing for those first 8 years seems to be a much better one than mine to go into the military for 3, then fuck off for 5...<br /><br />And the person to blame stares at me in the mirror when I shave.Angus McThaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09295013525738248801noreply@blogger.com