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Originally posted by Char-Lee
Really? what expenses? after they pay the 150-200 thousand back for school, their expenses should not be that much.
Average.. 2008 general practitioners were $186,044 in 2008. Specialists usually made more, about $339,738 per year.
Originally posted by NavyDoc
THere is a lot more expense to a practice than just paying back a med school loan. You have to employ staff: front office, nurses, billing, techs, and so forth. You have malpractice insurance, liability insurance, renter's/owners insurance. Health insurance for your staff, disability insurance. You have to pay for overhead: power, lights, heat, a/c. You have to pay for maintenance on your building or rent on it. You have the payments for the equipment or rent.........
Originally posted by ColoradoJens
reply to post by sirhumperdink
Perhaps everyone moaning about doctors being in the red should complain about the costs of medical school and force the universities to lower their rates so that we can have more doctors. How about that socialist idea?
CJ
Originally posted by sirhumperdink
Originally posted by ColoradoJens
reply to post by sirhumperdink
Perhaps everyone moaning about doctors being in the red should complain about the costs of medical school and force the universities to lower their rates so that we can have more doctors. How about that socialist idea?
CJ
quiet down with that kind of talk if supply meets or exceeds demand the "seller" has less leverage in price negotiations
Originally posted by Shoonra
This report is very problematical. The AMA made similar claims more than 40 years ago when Medicare was being proposed.
The organized and moneyed portion of the medical profession (mostly the AMA leadership) likes to tell us about how all the doctors are saints who have devoted themselves to healing the sick at enormous personal sacrifice, etc., EXCEPT when the govt does anything to try to monitor (or, worse, limit) the outrageous cost of medical care .... and then (and only then) are there hints from the AMA that these saints are pure mercenaries who would quit their offices and become beachcombers and trench-tampers rather than fill out a govt form. They were lying then, and they're lying now.
Originally posted by sirhumperdink
reply to post by Char-Lee
agreed ive only gone once in the last five to get a bone set everything else has passed on its own or ive dealt with myself
however i do believe people should see a doctor about twice a year for a general checkup because the costs are far lower (monetarily and to your health) if you actually have something to treat it early on rather than when more noticeable symptoms manifest
im fairly young and would consider myself low risk so i dont worry about it but in the next 5-10 years or so i will probably startedit on 10-7-2012 by sirhumperdink because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Lighterside
reply to post by paxnatus
83% of the doctors in this country you say? I'm a little bit skeptical, I know you've stated that the poll is "nonpartisan and unbiased", but your source is from a site founded by Tucker Carlson... so... I think I'll remain skeptical until looking further into it.
Unbiased?
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.