Comments on: The Falling-Down Professions - Medicine http://www.medschoolhell.com/2008/01/10/the-falling-down-professions-medicine/ A Cynical Look At Medical School and Medical Training Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:18:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Ambrose Okpokpo http://www.medschoolhell.com/2008/01/10/the-falling-down-professions-medicine/#comment-22808 Ambrose Okpokpo Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:03:16 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2008/01/10/the-falling-down-professions-medicine/#comment-22808 If Medicine falls then people will fall as humans, also. Imagine a world with almost no doctors of medicine. You would have almost no lawsuites. You would miserable people with old the past sickness killing them. In this context, I have strong believe that medicine would never fall but the human health would deterirate before it would (I mean Medicine) fall. People who think they can run everything with money a the ones falling. One of this days, there money would no-longer heal them or give them a good health for taking Medicine forgranted. Medicine is still the best profession. If Medicine falls then people will fall as humans, also. Imagine a world with almost no doctors of medicine. You would have almost no lawsuites. You would miserable people with old the past sickness killing them. In this context, I have strong believe that medicine would never fall but the human health would deterirate before it would (I mean Medicine) fall. People who think they can run everything with money a the ones falling. One of this days, there money would no-longer heal them or give them a good health for taking Medicine forgranted. Medicine is still the best profession.

]]> By: OpenAWindow http://www.medschoolhell.com/2008/01/10/the-falling-down-professions-medicine/#comment-22729 OpenAWindow Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:06:54 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2008/01/10/the-falling-down-professions-medicine/#comment-22729 What possesses a person to specialize in gastroenterology? I'm glad some people do, but how do they do it? To paraphrase George Carlin, the odor can "...knock a buzzard off a shit wagon." Similar scatalogical theme: A buddy of mine's an anesthesiologist. He says that you haven't lived until you've needed to defecate during the middle of the surgery that you're helping with. We're talking about the kind of load where, in your home bathroom, you'd be grabbing the towel rack with both hands, and you'd have the bottom of one of your feet pressed-up against the wall. What possesses a person to specialize in gastroenterology? I’m glad some people do, but how do they do it? To paraphrase George Carlin, the odor can “…knock a buzzard off a shit wagon.”

Similar scatalogical theme: A buddy of mine’s an anesthesiologist. He says that you haven’t lived until you’ve needed to defecate during the middle of the surgery that you’re helping with. We’re talking about the kind of load where, in your home bathroom, you’d be grabbing the towel rack with both hands, and you’d have the bottom of one of your feet pressed-up against the wall.

]]> By: Moe http://www.medschoolhell.com/2008/01/10/the-falling-down-professions-medicine/#comment-16637 Moe Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:06:52 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2008/01/10/the-falling-down-professions-medicine/#comment-16637 Please....finding one article that downplays the perceived legitimacy of physicians cannot simply validate your perspective on medicine "falling." Yes, med school is ridiculously expensive (i just took my loans out) and its a long journey, but the money is actually great and the respect you get is excellent. When people hear you are in med school or a physician they look at you differently. You cannot generalize a few retards that you've met doing your rotations as a matter of fact. Prestige? Come on. Please….finding one article that downplays the perceived legitimacy of physicians cannot simply validate your perspective on medicine “falling.” Yes, med school is ridiculously expensive (i just took my loans out) and its a long journey, but the money is actually great and the respect you get is excellent. When people hear you are in med school or a physician they look at you differently. You cannot generalize a few retards that you’ve met doing your rotations as a matter of fact. Prestige? Come on.

]]> By: hak http://www.medschoolhell.com/2008/01/10/the-falling-down-professions-medicine/#comment-12709 hak Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:42:31 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2008/01/10/the-falling-down-professions-medicine/#comment-12709 While the medical profession may be on a downward slide, I also found the article to be rather sensationalistic. I'm no fresh-out-of-college med school aspirant, but one pursuing a new career after investing nearly 20 years in my first field as one of the "creative" types mentioned in the article...the one where everyone allegedly has freedom to make work take form around their lives. Same goes for the web moguls. It's all work with a small percentage hitting the jackpot. While the medical profession may be on a downward slide, I also found the article to be rather sensationalistic. I’m no fresh-out-of-college med school aspirant, but one pursuing a new career after investing nearly 20 years in my first field as one of the “creative” types mentioned in the article…the one where everyone allegedly has freedom to make work take form around their lives. Same goes for the web moguls.

It’s all work with a small percentage hitting the jackpot.

]]> By: Roger, Esq. http://www.medschoolhell.com/2008/01/10/the-falling-down-professions-medicine/#comment-12641 Roger, Esq. Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:27:40 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2008/01/10/the-falling-down-professions-medicine/#comment-12641 I don't fully agree with the news article. You have to realize that it's the NEW YORK Times talking. In New York there are tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people who are millionaires. That's not even counting the billionaires. Brad Pitt who makes $25 million per movie just moved in down the street. The founder of Google works next door. The hedge funder who makes $100 million a year works a couple of floors up from you. Your neighbors are 20 year old trust-funders who sleep and shop all day and party all night. And look, 50 Cent just drove up to the club in his $350,000 Lamborghini. All of a sudden, being a 25 year old, know-nothing fresh out of law school who makes the going rate of $160k salary + $40k bonus, and lives in a 500 sq. ft. studio apartment, doesn't seem like hot shit. But ll in all, things still need to be put into perspective. Being a doctor or lawyer who makes $200k+ at a relatively young age is still a big deal in many other big cities not named New York. I don’t fully agree with the news article. You have to realize that it’s the NEW YORK Times talking. In New York there are tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people who are millionaires. That’s not even counting the billionaires.

Brad Pitt who makes $25 million per movie just moved in down the street. The founder of Google works next door. The hedge funder who makes $100 million a year works a couple of floors up from you. Your neighbors are 20 year old trust-funders who sleep and shop all day and party all night. And look, 50 Cent just drove up to the club in his $350,000 Lamborghini.

All of a sudden, being a 25 year old, know-nothing fresh out of law school who makes the going rate of $160k salary + $40k bonus, and lives in a 500 sq. ft. studio apartment, doesn’t seem like hot shit.

But ll in all, things still need to be put into perspective. Being a doctor or lawyer who makes $200k+ at a relatively young age is still a big deal in many other big cities not named New York.

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