Truly appreciate all the
SHOUTOUTS.
Looks like all you
O.G.s have been holdin' this pad down nicely!
I'm posting this after the O.B.A.M.A. (
One Big Ass Mistake America) health bill.
I'm worried.
A little.
Heres what I know:
1) I'm fourteen (uhhhh...thats one-four) years into this gig as a private practice anesthesiologist and I still spontaneously awaken before my alarm sounds at the RIDICULOUSLY early time of 0530. SO....obviously I love what I do. Truly. I love the trade. I enjoy the operating room environment. I enjoy the fact that I can interact with patients as long as I want...and if I reach the point where I'm not enjoying it anymore, I just slipp'em a mickey in the IV.
I enjoy bantering with surgeons. I enjoy working my ass off in an effort to make the operating room efficient.
2) I enjoy the fact that if you've got a good "rep" as a hard working consultant physician, the physicians you are consulting to don't f u ck with you. And if they do, you just write them off as being a total dick. Those types are few and far between where I work.
3) Unless you are a primary care doc who is at the top of the consulting hierarchy, ALL SPECIALISTS CONSULT TO SOMEONE. Heart surgeons to cardiologists. Cardiologists to the primary care docs. Where do you think orthopedists get their total joint patients? PRIMARY CARE DOCS. GET OVER IT. GET OVER THE FACT THAT WE CATER TO SURGEONS. SO WHAT. Does that bother you
THAT MUCH? REALLY? If it REALLY does, what else bothers you? Do you wanna take a surgeon to the fair and go to the bell tower with a sledge hammer and see if you can hit the bell before he does? Wanna drop your scrubs and measure each other's schlongs? Where does it stop? WHO CARES.
4) If 3) above bothered or insulted you, consider primary care.
5) Physicians as a whole may take a hit with this new obama bill...BUTCHA KNOW WHAT? KNOW WHATS REALLY BEAUTIFUL ABOUT IT? (please refer to 6)
6)Insurance companies are like the mafia. Insurance companies are LEGALIZED EXTORTION COMPANIES. This health bill is gonna
PUT A NINE MILLIMETER TO THE DOME concerning insurance companies. They cant drop you if you get a long standing illness. They have to take you if you have a long standing illness. There is
NO ceiling on how much your policy will pay for a long standing illness.
7)I hate insurance companies. Whether you are a patient or a doctor, when you look at the hippocracy (sic) they
BREATHE... dont wanna pay for patient care....dont wanna pay doctors who provide patient care...
MEANWHILE THE F UKKING CEO IS CRANKING IN TWENTY MIL A YEAR.....gimme a break.
8) When it comes to putting the insurance companies in their place, I like what One Big Ass Mistake America did.
9)I think anesthesiologists will always make a great living.
10) I really like my job.
11)Thats enough.
12)Buh bye now.
