tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post3367553132590057263..comments2024-03-22T17:05:55.267-04:00Comments on MD Whistleblower: Are Doctors Paid Too Much?Michael Kirsch, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07555280388086931097noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-87691598533852825372019-10-17T13:44:27.547-04:002019-10-17T13:44:27.547-04:00Both of you are acting with unnecessary aggression...Both of you are acting with unnecessary aggression, so as a voice of reason, who is on <b>neither</b> side, may I just say that you are both acting a bit childish. Anonymous person, doctors provide an essential service that is more important than programming. Without quality doctors, our world would be worse off. We may have google to help us, but it, as MauiGabe said, cannot make up for years of training and continued training after college to keep up to date. Doctors work hard to save lives, including yours and mine, so making a statement that patients go under extortion would be inconsiderate of all you have been given. As MauiGabe said, you are paying for a professional with years of experience as well as the cost of the equipment used to help you, which can be quite expensive.<br />MauiGabe, I can see that you are upset at Anonymous's poor phrasing and ignorance of what you and other doctors do. I'd like to remind you that a doctor's job is to help the patient first. By using unprofessional language and an aggressive manner, you are only supporting Anonymous and people like him in their own mind. The impression you give is that you are unreasonable due to your anger, which small-minded people would see as proof that doctors are arrogant, irrational, and should be paid less. By acting more considerate and refined, you can better portray your argument and at least proving to the people who do not already have an opinion that your side is more respectable in its dealings with the other argument.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-38729909474778469232017-06-19T02:34:19.743-04:002017-06-19T02:34:19.743-04:00Fair enough to voice your opinion. The big differ...Fair enough to voice your opinion. The big difference you fail to see however is that if you flood the market with practitioners of whatever skill/job, quality declines as well. There are more people offering service X, but if 5/100 plumbers are bad plumbers and we allow 1000 additional plumbers to get a license and work then that's 50 additional bad plumbers. You may get your drain snakes for 25% less than in the period before allowing the new 1000 plumbers to work but there are more bad options you may choose as well resulting in, at a minimum re-doing the work previously done poorly (drain re logs in a couple days) or in a worse case, they create new problems (crack pipe under house requiring thousands of dollars in excavations, etc.). This is probably an acceptable risk for most people when it comes to plumbing issues (or whatever service you want to discuss) because the risk of a bad outcome (drain reclogs) is relatively minor compared to potential benefits of allowing more total but also more inept plumbers into the workforce (reductions in costs for plumbing services). I think you or anyone else could be referred to as a dimwit (as you so elegantly described the author in your first sentence, which quickly shows everyone how smart you are when reverting to name-calling within a few sentences of providing a countering opinion to the initial discussion point) if they decided this was an acceptable risk when relating to your health (be it a nurse practitioner mistaking a colon mass for a hemorrhoid, a bad surgeon clipping a ureter instead of a muscle tendon, or a psychiatrist treating your bipolar disorder (I) with an ADHD medication. Doctors, which I obviously am, are the most talented people in our population and most everyone would collapse under the incredible amount of balls we juggle on a daily basis, not to mention the incredible importance of each of those balls (missing a melanoma on a patient is a little more serious than incompletely snaking a drain). You however are like every other ungrateful troglodyte in society. "If my doctor screws up, I'll sue his ass!". We doctors are at a breaking point and I'm quite certain the attitude of patients and society in general will be much more apologetic and appreciative of physicians when your moms, dads, daughters, and sons are in poor health and the good old supply and demand nurse practitioner just can't figure out what is wrong, unfortunately for you the mean, greedy doctors are now acting like every other profession and working on a cash basis, maybe $1000.00 for an initial consultation, $2,500 extra for diagnosis and treatment plan. I may sound love me an ass for that approach but people like you and your attitude towards the amazing service and dedication of physicians has forced us to that point. Good luck with your third rate nurse practitioner and your google searches, because unlike me, you will probably find it difficult to concentrate when your son, wife, daughter, mother is screaming in pain and google or nurse Susan just can't figure out how he. Good luck, ingrate!MauiGabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17975019173774971182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-55101143005403859022016-10-01T02:48:41.807-04:002016-10-01T02:48:41.807-04:00You honestly come off as a real dimwit.
What you ...You honestly come off as a real dimwit.<br /><br />What you are talking about is the price of labor, and the thing that affects that the most is supply and demand, and the relevant thing re: supply in medical situations is, How competitive is the labor market? Flood the country with programmers from elsewhere, and their salaries will go down. Flood the country with doctors from elsewhere, and the price will go down. Protect the labor market...and prices stay up...which is what has been happening for a long time. And that is indeed not fair to patients who are effectively undergoing extortion.<br /><br />It is very difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com