Interestingly, I find that most of the time I know far more about the inner workings of the body than the docs that "treat" me. Then again, I have a bio/molecul

Interestingly, I find that most of the time I know far more about the inner workings of the body than the docs that "treat" me. Then again, I have a bio/molecular bio/comp bio background...so that might be the cause. Seems the memorization that drives our docs in the USA forward often doesn't translate into understanding the concepts as a whole. I do agree salaries are getting out of control. Look at PhD's they contribute quite a bit to society, have an even harder time getting the PhD than an MD and yet...aren't similarly rewarded. Don't get me started on "oh, well, we have lives in our hands." You know what, so do the programmers, engineers, technicians that make the tools that make medicine possible. So...our incentive system is a bit out of whack in the USA. It wasn't this way a few decades ago, and it won't be that way a few decades from now. For the moment though, there are lots of perverse incentives skewing costs. Chief amongst them is the 3rd party payer system.