Doctors In Financial Trouble: Many Selling Their Practices & Switching Careers

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I don't think many people start out in biz & are able to work 3.5 days a week. Once you make it, you can cut back some, until recently of course.

I just refuse to see a doc who has a constantly full waiting room, harried staff & always runs late.

I think the docs that try to see 6-10 patients an hour suck. That's where people start thinking - this guy is billing $1,200 to $1,500 per hour...., the nurse does everything, the guy walks in and asks me whats wrong? I say "I have the flu"... he looks at my tongue & throat, temperature, etc and tells me "You have the flu, that will be $150; come back if the medicine doesnt work w/in a week." and you're thinking "No shit, I have the flu & I'm a Buck Fifty lighter too."

 

[spinn]

Quote from Masterchanger:

Yeah, your a doctor hater, and if that gives you power and makes you feel good about yourself then go for it.

I don't know if you were referring to me as the Former 80+ hour person. Why would I lie about that? That's not something I'm proud of or even think is healthy.You think I could do what I did working 4 eight hours days a week? Some doctors have to take afterhours call which may involve long hours in the hospital or OR. Even when I wasn't on call I took telephone calls from my patients no matter what time of day or night it was. You think when a doctor is oncall that they get to take the next day off if they are called in the night before? Some Family Doctors don't take hospital call and if they don't they end up working shorter hours. LOL you really have no clue, but I don't expect you to understand. Its obvious that you paint doctors as the worst sort of people yet you overlook the care and compassion that some have given to people. I'd like to run into you in the ER and have you tell me I'm full or Sh*t when I'm trying to help you and have you tell me I'm wrong and argue with me. I'd get you to sign a against medical advice/refusal of care statement and I'll go back to bed. I'm sure given your circumstance that your opinion of doctors is set in stone. Of course, you are entitled to your views and opinion.

LOL, I worked always on fridays and often on Saturdays. When providing a cosmetic service may patients appreciate not having to take time off from work and their rides home would have had to take time off work and wanted the convience of a saturday surgery time. And I provided it! and still do!


As far as what works, evidence based medicine is gaining support and that should help you have confidence that what is being done medically has a sound scientific basis. I just hope you are objective enough to look at what ALL doctors are prescribing and cast a critical eye at ALL unscientifcally supported treatments. As you likely know nutritional and herbal supplements, such as the one's sold by the Drs Website who talks about Adrenal Exhaustion, will need to face the same scientific scrutiny. Are you ready for that? I doubt it!

You are wrong...completely. I said half of DRs are bad people, not all. I could refute all of your points if I cared enough to do that, but why try to change your opinion?

I hate the DRs who prescibe medication to me that they know does not work, such as most anti depressants. Or the DR who sent me to have a biopsy of my thyroid, having another DR stick a needle 3 inches into my throat, for no good reason. I hope the kickback the hospital paid him paid for some cool 20 inch wheels for his Porsche.

I went to the ER in May with what was possibly swine flu and left their facility 2 days later, after being lied to numerous times, sicker than I was when I went in. Now I have to pay for that????

You've made millions and seem like a decent guy.......defending the DRs I write of is akin to defending a pedophile.

I have about 40 more such stories and I am young and healthy.....

If you missed the true point of this rant.....it is.......stop defending the DRs who are bankrupting America and being assholes, we all know who they are, even you, and saying it is the fault of "the system".

 

[MKTrader]

Quote from domestic:

dude, you are the most negative articulate educated person i ever come across on the web.

my fatherinlaw is a 68 year old gastroenterologist specialist who also speaks of how bad things are; yet vacations constantly, spends thousands in restaurants, essentially living quite well for decades. all jobs can "stink". there are two sides to every story.

just be happy for a little while, you might like it.

LOL at the "articulate educated" (sic) part.

This is a guy who quotes Paul Krugman like he's an authority or something.

 

[MKTrader]

Quote from indexer:

One of the reasons why there are so many lawsuits against doctors is that they are distracted by their money obsession. Thinking about their stock portfolio, wondering if they closed on the 2nd vacation home. Spending more time thinking about how to code this patient for revenue maximization rather than thinking about whats ailing the patient.

Health care might actually get better as well as less expensive under a public option.

Yeah, I got tired of my doc constantly checking stock quotes during my last open-heart surgery.

Argument by ridiculous stereotypes...what will come next? The level of debate at ET is about as low as the collective IQ at a quasi-religious "Yes we can! Change! Spread other people's wealth to my fat a@@"!" rally.

 

[ByLoSellHi]

Quote from MKTrader:

LOL at the "articulate educated" (sic) part.

This is a guy who quotes Paul Krugman like he's an authority or something.

Yeah, you're right.

Better to quote you than that Nobel Prize Winning (for economics) hack.

 

[Bond Trader]

Quote from indexer:

I hope with health care reform we can flush the money obsessed doctors out of the system and replace them with people more interested in healing.

While medicine may not be like the clergy, studying long for no pay, it should not be as money obsessed as it is. It should be a calling to heal.

Doctors I have met in a non-patient environment (save some public service or teaching doctors), were more money focused than real estate agents, Wall Street types and mortgage brokers.

FOOL

 

[Bond Trader]

Quote from indexer:

One of the reasons why there are so many lawsuits against doctors is that they are distracted by their money obsession. Thinking about their stock portfolio, wondering if they closed on the 2nd vacation home. Spending more time thinking about how to code this patient for revenue maximization rather than thinking about whats ailing the patient.

Health care might actually get better as well as less expensive under a public option.

A greedy legal system and far too many "Americans" who believe in their God given entitlement wouldn't have anything to do with the obscene amount of lawsuits would it? Anyone who bashes anyone else for their LEGAL pursuit of profits be they doctor, lawyer, trader etc... has no business being in a forum who's ultimate focus is making $.

 

[clacy]

Quote from Nattdog:

So funny to see all these socialist minded traders.

ha! us greedy capitalist traders will take your money with a smile on our face, then buy services from the best, highest priced doctors with the latest and greatest equipment developed by capitalistic companies, even if we have to travel to another country to escape the rationed shit-care Obama and the other political parasites have in store for us.

I agree, but the vast majority of these socialist mided people are likely unsuccessful at trading (and everything else).

They're not taking anyone's money.

 

[Bond Trader]

Quote from clacy:

I agree, but the vast majority of these socialist mided people are likely unsuccessful at trading (and everything else).

They're not taking anyone's money.

Maybe they're not taking anybody's money via trading but who's money pays for all the handouts and entitlements the whining , whimpering socialist promote / receive? Ours - those of us actually making $.

This is the basic problem with this country - We've allowed too many soft indiviuals that can't succeed by their own ability spend far too much time envying / coveting those of us that can. they want what we have but they want it by insurrection not by initiative.

 

[indexer]

Have you ever heard of George Soros?

People who's minds are locked in a rigid ideology do not make good traders. They don't have the mental flexibility.

The exception are pit traders and market makers who trade with a built-in institutional edge and have a sense of entitlement, not unlike many doctors.

Real traders have empathy for others because they have been through so much themselves. Obviously you are not a real trader.

Quote from clacy:

I agree, but the vast majority of these socialist mided people are likely unsuccessful at trading (and everything else).

They're not taking anyone's money.