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Doctors without prestige
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I like how doctors are grouped with lawyers 😱
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The only thing this article tells me is that Americans value people who can make a quick buck without really putting in the hard work.
The guy who invented Facebook? What exactly was the invention? A social networking website? How original. Gee, then SDN might have been a major contender once upon a time.
People glorify the quick-rich scheme in the United States today, that guys like you and me and, unfortunately, the jackal lawyers, who have to haul ass to make a living are seen as so yesteryear. Then again, the laziness of the American public has pervaded the medical schools, and that's why students now focus on getting into "lifestyle friendly" specialties.
To each his own, I suppose. I still think, despite all the negativity this article expresses for our profession's plight, being a physician is the best job in the world. I don't need the validation of the lay public to feel important. Damn it, my mom tells me I'm important everyday. 🙂
The guy who invented Facebook? What exactly was the invention? A social networking website? How original. Gee, then SDN might have been a major contender once upon a time.
People glorify the quick-rich scheme in the United States today, that guys like you and me and, unfortunately, the jackal lawyers, who have to haul ass to make a living are seen as so yesteryear. Then again, the laziness of the American public has pervaded the medical schools, and that's why students now focus on getting into "lifestyle friendly" specialties.
To each his own, I suppose. I still think, despite all the negativity this article expresses for our profession's plight, being a physician is the best job in the world. I don't need the validation of the lay public to feel important. Damn it, my mom tells me I'm important everyday. 🙂
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You had a nice argument going until you decided to call all current medical students lazy.
In full disclosure, I'm an ENT resident.
I wouldn't say my generation isn't willing to work hard. We've just collectively realized there's more to life than working 100 hours a week at 45 years old. I'll bust it while in the hospital. I'll read when I can. But I like the fact I can set it all down and spend time with friends and family. That doesn't make me lazy, that makes me a normal, social human being.
In full disclosure, I'm an ENT resident.
I wouldn't say my generation isn't willing to work hard. We've just collectively realized there's more to life than working 100 hours a week at 45 years old. I'll bust it while in the hospital. I'll read when I can. But I like the fact I can set it all down and spend time with friends and family. That doesn't make me lazy, that makes me a normal, social human being.
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Well, maybe I went a bit overboard with my response. Not ALL medical students are lazy and I don't think the ideals in today's med students are any different than those who graduated during the Days of the Giants. I'm sure those who pursued General Surgery didn't always love it, but it paid damn well (thousands of dollars for a hernia repair 30 years ago was big bank!), and so it was popular enough.
Compared to the rest of the country physicians and physicians to be are a hard working group. We don't need validation from bankers, traders, lawyers, or any of the lay public. So what's the point of this article? It's just another stab at a profession by a LAY PERSON who knows little about it. It reads like a Michael Moore movie. So it's garbage as far as I'm concerned.
The knocks on the profession by the high-rollers down on Wall Street are cute, especially when one of them lands on your OR table and are counting on your "modest means" ass to save his life. 🙂
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How many antibiotics did you have back in those days? How many years did it take you to diagnose SLE? Most are sitting comfortable behind the fact of: "Well I did it and i went through hell and now it's your turn." Really? Thank you for the dishonesty. 
It just ticks me off that the bar goes up many times unreasonably. CS, rumors of Step IV, more board certification, harder hospital privilages, more rules on your consult notes for you to be able to bill, more rules on the h&p. You get burnt after a while.
You take the fun out of medicine, then you kill their income, and then expect the physicians to be happy doing it? The sad part is when it's done by people who were there before you who just don't care who is coming after them.
It just ticks me off that the bar goes up many times unreasonably. CS, rumors of Step IV, more board certification, harder hospital privilages, more rules on your consult notes for you to be able to bill, more rules on the h&p. You get burnt after a while.
You take the fun out of medicine, then you kill their income, and then expect the physicians to be happy doing it? The sad part is when it's done by people who were there before you who just don't care who is coming after them.
