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To: Wildstar who wrote (34985)	11/1/1998 11:03:00 AM
From: Lee Lichterman III	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

I concur with your view however you forgot to include the other thing that people don't see. You pay out the nose for malpractice insurance because people always want the easy buck and view someone's death or injury someone else's fault and never their own. I come from a family of Doctor's ( I am the under achiever in the group) and when a lady wrecked her car through gross negligence it caught on fire. A friend of ours, a doctor, stopped and saw a 8 year old still inside while the mother was freaking and weeping. He did the movie hero thing and ran to the burning car, yanked the child out seconds before the car went up in a ball of fire. She sued him for disclocating the kids shoulder. It took over a year before the case was thrown out and his insurance rates went up even though he won. On the other hand, you could give up all those years of schooling you are having to do, the sleepless nights of your internship and being a resident and put hub caps on a car at any Detroit plant that a monkey could do and make 20-40 bucks an hour thanks to union BS. This country has it's priorities all screwed up. In October's National Geographic they pointed out the developed nations birthrate is dropping while under developed nations (Africa, Central and South America etc) is 2-3 times ours. I read a report in the past where here in the US there is an inverse proportion to education and birth rate. I was looking throught the 99 US budget and saw we as usual are giving money to under developed nations for famine relief, hurricane damages etc. Therefore, hurry up and get your schooling out of the way so we can make you work for free and pay the welfare for the rest of the world and the crack mothers. <g> Lee EDIT - Just read throught the rest of the string and saw the lawyers mentioned. While I love a good lawyer joke, I believe it is the people that sue not the lawyers. A lawyer didn't run up to the lady that dropped the coffee in her lap at Micky Ds. She sought them out to sue. I have seen surveillance tapes of people smearing lettuce on the floor of a super market then gently sitting on the floor before screaming and trying to claim they slipped and fell so they could sue Albertsons. Now days if you try a frivolous lawsuit and lose, you can sue your lawyer for losing the case. No one wants to work anymore. They just want the money given to them. PS - If I don't get rich in the market from what I learn on SI, maybe I can sue them. LOL

To: Wildstar who wrote (34985)	11/1/1998 12:07:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Wildstar, So, you are saying we get socialized medicine in 2 1/2 years? <G> MB

To: Wildstar who wrote (34985)	11/1/1998 3:45:00 PM
From: heraclitus	Respond to of 132070

Wildstar, One profession comes to mind, Pilot. (but then we have a vested interest in each landing <g>) jps

To: Wildstar who wrote (34985)	11/1/1998 5:51:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 132070

Hi Wildstar, I am not down on doctors, and refer you to my post to Skeeter Bug, Message 6244499 >>>>>how many other professions are there in which you have to get up in the middle of the night and perform a task perfectly and do it so every time or else someone dies?<<<<< Well, to begin with, there are nurse anesthetists. When I was a scrub tech, I couldn't tell the difference between the quality of gas being passed by nurse anesthetists and doctors, and neither could the patients. They had just as many patients whose lives were in their hands, as I recall, but they didn't get paid anywhere near as much. Then there are paramedics, physician assistants, EMTs. Do they count? My brother is a nurse in an ICU, does he count? My brother-in-law is a nurse in a hospice, he used to work in a burn unit, does he count? My sister is a nurse-midwife, does she count? My father is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, he is on the hospital's list and gets called in when an accident victim gets smashed in the face and needs emergency care, does he count? None of them think they are entitled to any particular level of compensation. Interestingly, I have never heard my father-in-law, the oncology surgeon, nor my brother-in-law, the psychiatrist, pissing and moaning about not getting paid enough to make it worth their while. Since you asked. CobaltBlue