Comments on: Healthcare Update — 03-28-2011

By: nurseygurl

nurseygurl — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:35:28 +0000

Fix the **&&& copy machine for the ED staff

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:30:07 +0000

I like anecdotal stories, especially funny ones like that. They’re so meaningful. If your friend told you that, it’s because it’s April Fools day. Or she didn’t get out of residency.

By: Hueydoc

Hueydoc — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:49:57 +0000

Yet a coworker years ago quit the ER and went to Law school. Three years later she was out practicing malpractice defense.
Her exact words were ” I now work 8 to 5, no holidays, no weekends, no nights, I make 3 times as much as I ever made in the ER and no one with HIV or Hep C is vomiting or bleeding on me”.
I should have been so smart.
Actually, I looked into law school after that but balked at signing my soul away in my own blood.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:05:29 +0000

In many states doctors aren’t required to carry malpractice insurance. Your point?

In many states the bars actually dedicate a portion of the dues to a fund to compensate victims of legal malpractice. Do state medical societies do that, since they’re chock full of ethical people?

In what state are disciplinary actions against attorneys kept secret? Because they’re in my bar magazine every month, from reprimands to expulsions, and you can find them online in most, if not all, states.

Just because you believe things doesn’t make them true.

By: Avenger

Avenger — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:13:54 +0000

There are the occasional bad eggs among the medical profession just as there are the occasional good eggs in the legal profession.

As an aside, just try to pursue a malpracice claim against an attorney in most states. In many states attorneys are not required to carry malpractice insurance and in many states, complaints against attorneys are kept secret, even those resulting in disciplinary action!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:48:55 +0000

You’re still replying to me. Weird.

By: Hueydoc

Hueydoc — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:43:56 +0000

Obviously, I hit a nerve……..

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:03:57 +0000

How much do you think society should pay the physician with over 350 malpractice claims who tried to disappear in Europe? Hopefully he gets a premium for his ethics, academic credentials, and completion of such a rigorous field of study. He deserves it.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:53:55 +0000

I think everyone should make whatever the market allows them to make. The beat criminal lawyer defending an innocent man for his life may well have a value greater than the worst podiatrist. And, to a large extent physicians have removed themselves from the free market. But to say as a blanket statement that any physician is worth more than all those others and if not society’s values are warped is foolish.

By: Avenger

Avenger — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:32:24 +0000

Matt – lawyers should make less than physicians – it is much easier to become an attorney than a physician. The legal profession is full of people who were “C” students as undergraduates and then entered law school for three years more school, then took and passed the bar exam. No apprenticeship required and, frankly,no brains or ethics either. To become a physician requires much better undergraduate academic credentials, a more rigorous post-graduate course of study and then an extended apprenticeship.

The fact that any attorney, entertainer or professional athlete makes more than a physician tells you all you need to know about just how warped our society’s values are