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[sweetalkr]

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How many of the residents are a part of the ASA and ASAPAC?
Our program pays for our memberships, and I really hope you young guys join so the ASA and ASAPAC can fight obama, i mean government changes to restrict our practice and lower our salaries.

 

[periopdoc]

The program can pay for your membership in ASA, but I don't think it is legal for them to make contributions to ASAPAC on your behalf is it?

- pod

 

[DO4lifer]

How many of the residents are a part of the ASA and ASAPAC?
Our program pays for our memberships, and I really hope you young guys join so the ASA and ASAPAC can fight obama, i mean government changes to restrict our practice and lower our salaries.

Obama's goal is to not to restrict the practice or the salaries of anesthesiologists. His goal is to find healthcare solutions that can provide care for all Americans. The fact that the healthcare industry has been neglected for so long has led to such ridiculous problems and wasteful spending. People still love their doctors and I don't understand where you get such bizarre ideas about Obama's intentions. Maybe you can send me the transcript of him saying "We need to restrict the practice of anesthesiologists here in America, and further more, we need to cut down their salaries."....

Yeah, right.

 

[jwk]

Obama's goal is to not to restrict the practice or the salaries of anesthesiologists. His goal is to find healthcare solutions that can provide care for all Americans. The fact that the healthcare industry has been neglected for so long has led to such ridiculous problems and wasteful spending. People still love their doctors and I don't understand where you get such bizarre ideas about Obama's intentions. Maybe you can send me the transcript of him saying "We need to restrict the practice of anesthesiologists here in America, and further more, we need to cut down their salaries."....

Yeah, right.

Did he actually say something about anesthesiologists? Probably not.

I hope you're kidding with your statement - otherwise - What a startling level of naivete.

 

[Jalopycat]

He's probably a med student who is a big fan of AMSA and their big socialist agenda.

Then someday he will join the rest of us in the real world

 

[Antigunner]

Med student here that's NOT a big fan of AMSA... don't know if I've quite made it into the real world yet, but I am at least a member of ASA and donated to the ASAPAC. Seems like an easy way to at least make a small difference in my future career...👍

 

[Surfer]

Obama's goal is to not to restrict the practice or the salaries of anesthesiologists. His goal is to find healthcare solutions that can provide care for all Americans. The fact that the healthcare industry has been neglected for so long has led to such ridiculous problems and wasteful spending. People still love their doctors and I don't understand where you get such bizarre ideas about Obama's intentions. Maybe you can send me the transcript of him saying "We need to restrict the practice of anesthesiologists here in America, and further more, we need to cut down their salaries."....

Yeah, right.

Actually obama has said quite a few very disturbing things about physicians. there was a recent speech where he talked about how dr's only spend 5 minutes with the patient but the nurses spend the whole time... etc. do you really think he's going to come out and SAY he wants to cut physician salaries? read between the lines....

 

[2win]

Obama's goal is to not to restrict the practice or the salaries of anesthesiologists. His goal is to find healthcare solutions that can provide care for all Americans. The fact that the healthcare industry has been neglected for so long has led to such ridiculous problems and wasteful spending. People still love their doctors and I don't understand where you get such bizarre ideas about Obama's intentions. Maybe you can send me the transcript of him saying "We need to restrict the practice of anesthesiologists here in America, and further more, we need to cut down their salaries."....

You're funny and sad in the same time. "People still love their doctors " - where did you get this one from - malpractice trials?
Obama goal is to make all of us poor and kissing his messianic feet. He's manipulating really good a lot of ignorants but not for long - I hope. People are starting to realize his true goals. I am waiting to see him in a picture with Chavez, Castro, and arab terrorists. Oh - sorry, I cannot say this word anymore.

 

[ProRealDoc]

Med student here that's NOT a big fan of AMSA... don't know if I've quite made it into the real world yet, but I am at least a member of ASA and donated to the ASAPAC. Seems like an easy way to at least make a small difference in my future career...👍

Screw AMSA, donate to the ASAPAC instead.

 

[coprolalia]

"People still love their doctors " - where did you get this one from - malpractice trials?

Just one point...

Yes, some people still do love and respect their doctors. But, it's often a love hate relationship promulgated by the mass media. It's a form of public "borderline personality" disorder. The public becomes 'splitters', where we're either in their minds Albert Schweitzer or Josef Mengele - there's no in between.

Problem is, the "system" is changing, indeed, to support us less. There are nurse-activist groups, pharmacists telling us what we can/can't prescribe, nurse practitioners with conflicting information, protocols we're expected to follow in all instances... etc. A whole host of individuals are interacting with patients and giving them often mixed messages, not the least of which is the perception that - at all times - all outcomes are quantifiable and able to be reduced to a binary directive - "here, you should've made this patient, with this ICD-9CM diagnosis code, better... but you didn't... why?" Illness and humans, both giving and receiving care, are just not that easily reducible.

Couple that with a public who gets its information about what it is we do in the hospital from shows like "Gray's Anatomy", and you begin to understand why we have a huge uphill battle ahead of us as we try to uniformly and fairly administer care... which I don't believe we will ever be able do.

Again, watch this episode from PBS (it is excellent):

Sick Around America

-copro

 

[sweetalkr]

Coming back to the media and the perception of doctors, the ASA/MSA lobbied about 4-5 years ago to show more positive perceptions of doctors in society on TV, and I think it has shown some progress.
another reason to donate to the people that dedicate their careers to making our careers easier/more profitable.
Don't forget the ASAPAC. they saved our butts by getting us a pay increase at academic institutions instead of a pay cut the other specialties got hit with a year ago!😍