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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (123960)	8/2/2010 12:21:37 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 132070

Us Hospitals have heat and running water

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (123960)	8/2/2010 4:58:06 PM
From: GuinnessGuy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

FF, you wrote- "I assume some of it is the advanced technology used in our care (and or abused) and SALARIES. Of course we know that higher salaries do tend to attract the brightest people." I'm not sure brightness is the most important quality in a clinical MD. Maybe an academic MD. But maybe it's not MD's that are pushing up the costs. I've heard that it's not that uncommon for a primary physician to only make $80K/year. On the other hand, a radiologists makes an average of $400K/year - and the latter doesn't even have to deal with whining patients. As I mentioned here before, an old family friend who is a retired internist jokingly told me a few years ago that when he dies, he wants to come back as a hospital. <g> The whole medical thing is such a mess that it's almost unfathomable. I'd like to write about it but it deserves its own thread, or maybe website. In the most general sense I think the problems are that any entity, be it a business or life form, is to achieve maximum growth and prosperity. But in the health care field those two endpoints don't necessarily conform to the goals of those receiving its products and services. In fact, there can be a big big disconnect. craig