Indeed. People like to forget that doctors as a class are the primary beneficiaries of America's for-profit medical system, and their political influence is th

Indeed. People like to forget that doctors as a class are the primary beneficiaries of America's for-profit medical system, and their political influence is the strongest reason it continues. Debts owed to doctors is the leading cause of bankruptcy in America. Doctors lower on the totem pole get screwed by doctors further along in their career, but that hardly phases them. This is a profession where the institution of hazing deeply entrenched. Doctors-in-training are hazed with sleep deprivation and overworking during residency, to the detriment of patients who suffer increased rates of medical errors. The harm is well understood but doctors continue this anyway, evidently under the logic of "I suffered through it, so I'll make the new guys suffer the same." So allow me to play the world's smallest violin for the plight of these doctors.