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To: Mike M2 who wrote (98745)	5/1/2001 10:23:46 AM
From: baggo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

mike, hospitals work interns/residents because they're cheap labor and teaching staff are inherently lazy. never go to a teaching hospital for surgery unless it's super-specialized stuff. residents perform 95% of surgeries. sometimes staff is present,sometimes not. the good surgeons enter private practice where the larger bucks are made. i don't know how the health care dollar is divided, but seemingly the hmos are making money; look at the recent ascent of stock prices. the drs aren't getting raises. regards, BRICE

To: Mike M2 who wrote (98745)	5/1/2001 12:20:17 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Odd, but I just heard this discussed last night on the local news (I think it was). Anyway, they said that a hospital receives 100k for having an intern (don't recall who pays for this), and the hospital in turn pays the intern 30k. Big profit right off the top... Then work them 84 hours a week and basically you have really, really cheap labor to help you sell the high markup items, like baking soda and surgical tubing <g>