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Well said. I get a lot of flak from, well, pretty much everyone for pointing out that your neighborhood doctor is likely a scam artist. Clearly I’m generalizing
by throwaway100773 7y ago
Well said. I get a lot of flak from, well, pretty much everyone for pointing out that your neighborhood doctor is likely a scam artist. Clearly I’m generalizing but just suggesting it may be the case is usually met with undue skepticism.
Not to mention, having an inside look at med school gives you a different perspective on the motivations of most rising doctors. It’s rarely about anything but lifestyle and money. I mean, they are people too, but most med students I’ve met are looking out for number one first, and anything else is a distant second.
- JudgeWapner 7y ago> your neighborhood doctor is likely a scam artist. I don't blame a Dr for trying to charge 7x the actual value of their time if 6/7 people don't pay them at all (the case in ERs). They're employing the same practice as insurance companies. But when a Dr does it he's a scam artist?
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoYes. If the price was 1/7th, people would pay. $70 for ibuprofen is still a huge ripoff, but they would pay it. No one will pay $700.
- Aeolun 7y agoI don’t think this is true. 4/7 people wouldn’t pay regardless. 2/7 might, and that last one was paying anyway because insurance covered everything.
- eragone 7y agoNot sure where you went to med school, but couldn't be different for me for med school and residency. Very little of being a doctor has to do with money. If I wanted money, I would have stayed in software and not gone another half a million in debt.
- EliRivers 7y agoBut the median salary of a doctor is much higher than the median salary of a software engineer; or is it just the debt that you mean?
- eragone 7y agoBoth - I spent 6 years not making any salary, plus another 4 making less than a software engineer, and on top of that I took on a lot of debt.