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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The money in medicine is very good especially if patients are not using insurance. I just got a quote for a breast job. $14K for a 2 hour surgery. I don’t know if another profession that can reliably make $7K in an hour. [/quote]
You can’t possibly believe he pockets $7k, can you?
For a variety of reasons, this is an awful example to use. Why don’t you look at Medicaid reimbursement rates, not how much you are paying out of pocket for a boob job?[/quote]
Why is it an awful example? The best paid doctors tend to be plastic surgeons and dermatologists. Their clients have disposable money and insurance may not be involved. With that said why are doctors complaining about being family or pediatric doctors? Their grades and choice determined that. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants will eventually take over those field. They have more autonomy than ever. That’s why the pay and demand for those positions isn’t what it used to be. The doctors did it to themselves. [/quote]

They sort of do it to themselves.  Pediatricians and primary care aren’t compensated well because what compensates well is procedures.  And pediatricians and family doctors try really hard not to do procedures on kids if they can help it.  Because they are nice people who care more about children than making money.

They will also do things like “social rounds” where they see their patients in the hospital and check over their charts even though they aren’t the primary physician for that person while they are in the hospital and don’t get compensated.

Dermatologists and plastic surgeons agave a different way of thinking about things.  
Good luck getting an early diagnosis of melanoma or facial reconstruction surgery after a car accident if you are poor.  [/quote]
The reason they’re not doing procedures is because it’s not in their wheelhouse. Not because they are being nice. [/quote]

What?  
Who do you think is staffing the PICU or the Children’s ER?  [/quote]

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