My wife and I were actually talking about this the other day.
No doubt - Would quit the next day. I agree with one of the other posters about getting a PA or NP to do the scutwork, too. I'd feel a little guilt about having the other residents take my call and would buy each resident a sweet ride (We take home call - better known as car call since we just bounce from one hospital to another on call).
Retire to some hot, sunny country and pursue my real interests -
Ask anyone in residency and I'm sure they'd all say the same thing.
As far as continuing to practice - you'd be a walking target for litigation. The lawyers have nothing to loose! They'd file a lawsuit and offer a small settlement right up front. Even if it's BS, it would cost you more to hire a lawyer to represent you - So of course you'd settle after the 10th one. And if you're stupid enough to continue in medicine, you'd realize that despite your wanting to contribute to society, everyone else is looking to hit the malpractice jackpot - financed by you of course.
We had a family sue a local ENT for performing unnecessary surgery (T&A) on 4 year old kid and accused the doctor of performing surgeries to make $$$$ (the family had medicaid). No post-op bleeding, no issues, and is perfect post-op. The lawsiut was filed 6 weeks after the surgery. The family quickly offered a settlement for $50k, the malpractice company told the doctor to agree to the termsit, which the surgeon refused - so the malpractice company refused to pay for the lawyer, and told him he was on his own. He spent ~$100k on the defense and was found not guilty. In his defense argument, he demonstrated to the court that he actually LOST $$$ treating medicaid patients (once you look at the daily cost of an office staff, malpractice, office space, transcription, etc), but felt a civic duty to take care of underprivileged children. So he's $100k poorer, but did it so a mapractice settlement would not be reported to the National Practitioner Database. Needless to say, he doesn't see medicaid pts any longer.
NOW - you have $100+ Million in the bank. You want to guess how many people will be coming after you?
Word of advice - put everything in your partners name and live in a non-community property state.
I could go on - but will leave it for another thread.
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