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05-30-2007, 03:03 PM
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Re: Can someone explain the health care \'crisis\' to me?
Fine. Residents make 50-80k. A GP in New Mexico just starting out might make barely 100k. But anyone who is saying that doctors aren't generally very well paid is delusional.
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#72
05-30-2007, 03:06 PM
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Re: Can someone explain the health care \'crisis\' to me?
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Did a doctor touch your pee-pee when you were little? You seem to have much contempt for the profession. [/ QUOTE ] You're correct that I have contempt for the profession. You are incorrect in assigning the motivation for my opinion.
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#73
05-30-2007, 03:08 PM
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Re: Can someone explain the health care \'crisis\' to me?
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Fine. Residents make 50-80k. A GP in New Mexico just starting out might make barely 100k. But anyone who is saying that doctors aren't generally very well paid is delusional. [/ QUOTE ] I wasn't saying that. I was just pointing how how wrong your 2mm figure was and gave several reasons why there is no way it is that high. Don't make up statements out of thin air and people won't argue with you.
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#74
05-30-2007, 03:08 PM
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Re: Can someone explain the health care \'crisis\' to me?
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Fine. Residents make 50-80k. A GP in New Mexico just starting out might make barely 100k. But anyone who is saying that doctors aren't generally very well paid is delusional. [/ QUOTE ] They also invest much more time and money in education to enter that field. Who in their right mind would go thru a med school, and the entry level training years to end up making 40 or 50 k a year. People dont get a CPA or advanced finance degrees to make 30k as an accounts receivable clerk.
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#75
05-30-2007, 03:10 PM
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Re: Can someone explain the health care \'crisis\' to me?
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Fine. Residents make 50-80k. A GP in New Mexico just starting out might make barely 100k. But anyone who is saying that doctors aren't generally very well paid is delusional. [/ QUOTE ] I hope you are right! Of course you are. But the thing you are glossing over is that well-paid != overpaid, and it also != accurately paid. It is a huge risk and a huge investment to take off down the road to becoming a doctor. I'm sacrificing many years of my life and risking hundreds of thousands of dollars in pursuit of this career. I'm not complaining about it, its a choice I freely made, but I made it with the intention that I would be ADEQUATELY compensated. In other words, the reward would be worth the risk. 90-200k/year is a lot of money, but its not like anyone cares about absolute dollar values. Is it enough relative to costs and risks? I think the answer is yes, or I wouldn't be doing this, but it isn't OBVIOUSLY yes. The point of this isn't that you need to placate my whining. It doesn't matter if I'm happy or if I get what I want. What you need to be worried about is whether future individuals will find the reward worth the risk. You have a lot going for you, however. Even in the face of worsening conditions, the Myth of the Prestigious Physician is keeping applications are ridiculous levels for medical school acceptance. It truly is an artificial, irrational demand, which will allow the influx of doctors to continue well past the point where any reasonable analysis would show it just isn't worth it for most of them. But that has to run out some time.
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#76
05-30-2007, 03:10 PM
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Re: Can someone explain the health care \'crisis\' to me?
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Fine. Residents make 50-80k. A GP in New Mexico just starting out might make barely 100k. But anyone who is saying that doctors aren't generally very well paid is delusional. [/ QUOTE ] How much debt do you think the average resident has when they come out of the program?
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#77
05-30-2007, 03:10 PM
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Re: Can someone explain the health care \'crisis\' to me?
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[ QUOTE ] Did a doctor touch your pee-pee when you were little? You seem to have much contempt for the profession. [/ QUOTE ] You're correct that I have contempt for the profession. You are incorrect in assigning the motivation for my opinion. [/ QUOTE ] Its cool, I'll treat you anyhow.
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#78
05-30-2007, 03:11 PM
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Re: Can someone explain the health care \'crisis\' to me?
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[ QUOTE ] Fine. Residents make 50-80k. A GP in New Mexico just starting out might make barely 100k. But anyone who is saying that doctors aren't generally very well paid is delusional. [/ QUOTE ] I wasn't saying that. I was just pointing how how wrong your 2mm figure was and gave several reasons why there is no way it is that high. Don't make up statements out of thin air and people won't argue with you. [/ QUOTE ] I wasn't responding to you when I wrote that.
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#79
05-30-2007, 03:12 PM
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Re: Can someone explain the health care \'crisis\' to me?
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[ QUOTE ] Fine. Residents make 50-80k. A GP in New Mexico just starting out might make barely 100k. But anyone who is saying that doctors aren't generally very well paid is delusional. [/ QUOTE ] How much debt do you think the average resident has when they come out of the program? [/ QUOTE ] Residency doesn't cost money, you make money, but you usually don't make enough to make any significant headway in your debt. I've heard lots of different estimates on average indebtedness, so take it for what its worth, but I would say its around $150,000. Mine is going to be ~$250,000.
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#80
05-30-2007, 03:15 PM
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Re: Can someone explain the health care \'crisis\' to me?
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[ QUOTE ] Fine. Residents make 50-80k. A GP in New Mexico just starting out might make barely 100k. But anyone who is saying that doctors aren't generally very well paid is delusional. [/ QUOTE ] How much debt do you think the average resident has when they come out of the program? [/ QUOTE ] None, cause doctor daddy and doctor mommy paid for med school. Dont you know almost every doctor is the offspring of at least one and sometimes two other rich doctors? I thought this was common knowledge. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
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