DISQUS

Anonymous · 1 year ago

"For all the laymen who sit in the peanut gallery and say doctors make too much money I give you a glimpse on what it took to get there. If you believe doctors make too much, you simply don't get it. You will never get it unless you lived it. Nobody would do what we do; go through the painful rigors of achieving excellent high school and college grades all day, every day, just to get into medical school. You don't get a C in biology and get accepted to medical school."

And we're up late working hard writing software to replace you. Too bad you invested all that time and money in a career that will be obsolete before you're 50.

Doctors just do case-based reasoning. That's the easiest kind of logic to code. Better save your pennies, doc.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Ah, a clash between two arrogant people. How pleasant.

EE · 1 year ago

I really look forward to this argument.

Go Happy!

The Happy Hospitalist · 1 year ago

It's hard to argue a position that has no merit. It's like me trying to arguing that computers will take over the role of software programmers. It's just more of the same from lay folk that don't understand the spectrum of medical care and disease

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Lets see, in 79-80 I was a surgical intern and worked 36 on, 12 off (nominally)...unless my opposite number was away. Then it was just on for 24/24, no off. 5 days straight in the ER. As in straight 24/24. But, in my dad's day it was worse. Back then the pay was only room, board, and laundry. Things are better now, I guess.

michele · 1 year ago

Ann Coulter had a great column about the supposed overpayment of docs.
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=208

To the above anon. who states he's writing software to replace us health care folks - write faster. And do a better job. My HCA hospital's meditech is a nightmarish patchwork of unintuitive, illogical mess. It takes me twice as long to document and about four times as long to pass my meds as when I was paper charting.

E · 1 year ago

nice post happy.

scalpel · 1 year ago

So far they can't even write a decent electronic medical record program.

Old MD Girl · 1 year ago

Do you have any idea how awesome it would be to have computer programs do the easy algorithmic work for me? That would leave me only interesting work that required a brain.

Oh wait. They've already done this. They're called mid-levels.

(No offense to the mid-levels out there -- you provide a completely indispensable service.)

Anonymous · 1 year ago

ROFL at the programmer. Somebody thinks that the body is wired the same way as a computer.

EE · 1 year ago

HAHA, I KNEW someone was going to bring up the crappiness of the electronic medical records systems!

I love it!