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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (23984)	7/1/2012 7:01:18 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

>> They can be a great physician but a crappy businessman with a crappy personality. Just like any other profession, it takes more than education. You seem to be saying they have a right to be successful, regardless. not the way the world works. I'm not saying that at all. Nobody has a "right" to be successful, including school teachers (who have received that benefit imo). If a physician is a lousy businessman he'll make less money -- as it should be. If he has a crappy personality, he'll make less money -- perhaps less than a school teacher or truck driver makes. He's not guaranteed anything. Throughout this discussion we've been discussing, at least by inference, the typical or average physician vs. the typical or average other person. But the point is that supply and demand dictates that physicians be more highly compensated because demand is high and, due to the rigors of becoming an M.D. or D.O., supply is limited. I don't think any of the physicians I know feel the kind of "sense of entitlement" that many school teachers seem to exhibit. MDs know they are in the fight of their financial lives right now, or if they don't know, they should.