Comments on: The Falling-Down Professions – Medicine

By: Ambrose Okpokpo

Ambrose Okpokpo — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:29:20 +0000

Thanks for this response. I is best to be positive. Some people have found a way to be negative and your are certainly not one of them. These people need to get a life or never fall sick. They just don’t to go to a doctor if they hate the doctors this much with their comments. Sombody has to do the work of a doctor and they might as well do the work for a doctor if they know that the doctor is not doing is work. They should go to med school and stop complaining. Medicine would always be good if not the best because it take care of everyone. Thanks again for your good comments. It is very encouraging for aspiring doctors like me.

By: Ambrose Okpokpo

Ambrose Okpokpo — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:03:16 +0000

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

OpenAWindow — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:06:54 +0000

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

Moe — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:06:52 +0000

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

hak — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:42:31 +0000

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.