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To: Ilaine who wrote (97206)	4/23/2001 12:55:43 AM
From: Gut Trader	Respond to of 436258

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To: Ilaine who wrote (97206)	4/23/2001 6:17:41 AM
From: sun-tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Well CB, you certainly don't help to alter the ambulance chasing stereotype blanketing your profession. Physicians that complete residencies at this point are typically $150,000 in debt secondary to student loans. Add to this a home mortgage, practice buy-in, auto financing, children's education, etc., and you have an individual who is maybe a half a million in debt at the age of 32. Meanwhile, they have to work 80-100 per week and make less money each year. While this is happening, less educated administrators, nurses or physicians who weren't skilled enough to maintain their own clinical practices, are imposing clinical restrictions on the care delivered to patients. All of this fun as reward for finishing in the top of their high school and college classes just to have the honor of not sleeping for four more years of medical school. Then, you get to participate in a residency that pays less salary than McDonalds for the next 3-5 years so that maybe you can get a job that will cover the monthly payments on your education, mortgage and children's upbringing. Not to mention the extortion most specialist practices extract from their new partners in the form of "goodwill" and a practice buy-in that includes accounts receivables on care they didn't even deliver. The icing on the cake is having to deal with undereducated lawyers such as yourself. Keep chasing out the good doc's. One day you're going to find yourself in an ER needing emergency attention. Maybe you'll be lucky enough to get a young doctor who was born wealthy and has nothing but altruism in mind for his life goals. Miracles can happen. More likely, you'll get some foreign medical grad. But don't fret, if you live through the ordeal you'll have another doctor to ream. Happy trails (~)^(~)