On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > You have shown that one study shows that 'primary care physicians' make less > than doctors in other specialties (the numbers Rob posted seem to dis-prove > what you are tryign to say) - that is a far cry from proof that doctors in > general don't care about money.
I'm not sure where the idea got started that I think all doctors are inherently altruistic and would happily work for nothing. As I said before, I want and expect doctors to make a very decent living. They have a very tough job and they generally have a huge pile of loans to pay off after a very lengthy education and training period. The link I posted to PCP salaries was not to compare them to other types of doctors. It was to refute the point you put out there saying that even the worst doctor in the country could make several hundred thousand dollars a year and to refute the point that Gruss and Rob made saying that doctors wouldn't work for only 150K a year that they would supposedly earn under a single payer health insurance program. I simply showed that the bulk of the PCPs out there are making less than 200K a year and a large minority of them are earning less than 100K a year. That doesn't mean that all doctors live a paupers life, it doesn't mean that they are all noble physicians in it for nothing but the public good. What it does mean is that the picture that was being painted of doctors all earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and being in it just for the money is patently false. There is a lot to meaningfully debate here. But when people are starting with a preconceived image of one of the major factors (physicians) that is demonstrably wrong, it makes it difficult to get to anything meaningful. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296704 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
