Havarti666 said:
No kidding. The anesthesiologists I have worked with thus far have been a 100% cool group of people. Until now....
Surgeon: "Mr. Money, would you mind excercising some of your power and give the table a little more Trendelenberg"?
Haaaaaaaahahahahahah.. if I heard a surgeon say that, I'd die laughing.
Trendelenberg power!!!! *Table buzzes as it slopes*
Personally, I didn't choose medicine -for- the money, because I'm not the type of person who can overlook unhappiness in his life so long as the dollars are rolling in. If I were to have chosen a profession soley for its monetary benefits, I've no doubt that I would end up miserable. I enjoy working with people, I enjoy having the opportunity to influence others' lives (for the better, I hope), and I love science. Besides, daddy was a doctor, too.
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However, I really hope you all aren't above admitting that it's simply not practical to claim you'd go into a medical career if it were paying $50,000. For the amount of work that some (or rather all) specialties require, it simply isn't feasible (and I'm not talking about the few people who have $100M and choose to continue working for the sheer philanthropy of it, and there are several at our hospital).
Medicine is a profession, and is a way to make a living. Much as a mechanic learns of the inner-workings of automobiles and how to repair them, physicians learn how to manage the human body. If you asked the average mechanic if he chose his job to help improve the world of automobiles, he'd look at you like you were a lunatic.
Medicine is a noble profession in that we have the opportunity to (hopefully) help improve quality of life for other people after dedicating years of hard work toward achieving the status of "Doctor," but at the end of the day, it's still a job, and it's still a source of livelihood. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that one of the factors in choosing medicine was money, because for the amount of time and effort it takes, there had better be some. On the flip-side, for someone like me, for all the work and endless time medicine takes from one's life, no amount of money could in and of itself make it worthwhile.
My feeling as far as Mr. Money goes is that he could use a course in humility.
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There's nothing wrong with being good at what you do. I'd sincerely hope that if you're in-charge of the lives of others, you -are- good at what you do, but there's really no reason to flaunt it. Honestly, what's the point in acting as if you're too good for the rest of humanity? We're all on the same playing-field here, and no one is 'better' than anyone else. Having been given the opportunity to serve as a physician doesn't make one 'higher' than anyone else; maybe you think it does, though. I hope not. Being respectful toward others and actually meaning it (e.g., not just "I can be nice to anyone for five minutes!") is something the majority of this planet's populus could stand trying out. Trust me, there are enough douche-bags walking around that losing one won't lend a crippling blow to the planet's state of dickitry. It might make you a better and happier person, though. Who knows.
We chose to pursue medicine... others chose a differen't path.
*shrug* At the end of it all, what does it matter? We're all going to die, and then that Viper sitting in your ex-driveway won't mean much.
Good Lord, get over yourself. You're two weeks out of residency and obviously slipping a little of the Versed under the table to yourself. Yeah, that's what the rest of the docs think about you guys, "prestige and power". If you just finished anesth, then you got into it when the fill rates were hanging around 50%. Congrats on your "prestige and power" and overpaid specialty.
