Originally Posted by raatkirani2005
This is the biggest bunch of garbage I've ever read. First of all, do you even know how hard it is to become a doctor? How much you have to sacrifice? When others are having fun in their college years, goofing off, getting laid, going to parties, most serious premed students are isolated, with their noses in their books or in the lab. It's a huge sacrifice in the prime of their lives. That continues during med school and residency (where incidentally they work their tails off for virtually no money). Would you work overnights and weekends without extra compensation? I doubt it, but doctors do. Continue to when they get an actual job...again they are working their tails off....weekends, late nights, doing CME, etc. They have hospital administration and the threat of ridiculous lawsuits choking them. You seriously have no inkling of the kind of pressure physicians face. Everything they do is scruitinized to a T in this litigious society. One of my husband's friends is being sued by the family of an 85 year old woman because...she died. Seriously, the old lady kicks the bucket from natural causes and her family is convinced they have a lawsuit. The amount of stress these lawsuits puts on doctors is incomprehensible.
In addition to what Mossad stated, healthcare costs are high for another couple of reasons:
1. Insurance companies and their complicated demands for billing specialists, coding specialists, practice managers, and all that BS
2. Litigious patients and their shyster lawyers (I'm looking at you John Edwards) who sue at the drop of a hat.
3. Hospital administration who pocket profits
4. Patients who demand extreme treatments for every little ailment. A simple cold? They NEED antibiotics. A little back pain? They NEED Vicodin. How about bucking up and not medicalizing every single thing that happens?
The general population is always so quick to blame doctors for healthcare costs. We live in a very unhealthy society where everyone is fat and depressed. Perhaps the government should spend money tackling the root cause of these issues (i.e. educate the masses about eating less, exercising more, working on their relationships, improving mental health, finding holistic ways to improve their lives) rather than war mongering. Doctors make good money, but not that good. They don't get bonuses like CEOs, nor do they get commissions like those in the financial sector. And truth be told, why should a doctor work for free (except for charity or pro-bono work)? He's providing a service and you should pay for that service. We never ask police officers, firefighters, teachers, nurses, dentists or anyone else to give us their precious services for free. Doctors work very hard for their money and if you worked as hard, you'd make the same amount too and you wouldn't be here *****ing about their incomes.
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