Posted on 05/20/2002 1:09:58 AM PDT by sarcasm
LOL, The unions will never allow their minions to pay more. Every time our local teachers union contract comes up they sqquak if they have to may a measy 1% more of their contribution.
Besides the incredibly silly stereotyping going on here (which unfortunately does not surprise me), it is the decided lack of solid reasoning (which again does not surprise) which causes me to respond
Please demonstrate (using facts instead of hyperbole) how an increase in women in medicine is the cause of a decline in "hard driving specialists". You give zero evidence to back up your statement, but provide ample evidence of another cause...skyrocketing malpractice costs.
Do you really believe that an cardiology specialist makes no more than the doctor at your local HMO. Get real. click here for salary info. It took less than 1 minute to find this information. If you don't like that survey try this one. Maybe you'll like this one.
Your last point (if there is indeed a point here) that women docs "just plain quit" if they marry another doc needs substantiation, which of course you studiously avoid providing.
The reason (IMHO) that we won't see your reasons added to the costs is because they're not reasons at all, just your own personal opinion/agenda. I think we have learned more about you from your post as opposed to being enlightened about anything having to do with the health care debate.
The problem is healthcare coverage is seen as an entitlement, so free market forces will never be allowed into play.
Women don't want to go there...hours and demands too high. Women now make up over 50% of new med school attendees. Women prefer the cushy office or quieter hospital specialties. Internist specialties, gasmen, that ever-lucrative opthalms. GS's don't make those big bucks, either. Neither do the neuros, who have mal premiums in the hundreds of thousands of dollars in some states to contend with. We already know what's happening to OBs who deliver babies...there's fewer.
Women docs often marry men docs, and when they do, they often retire "temporarily" to tend to children. Then can afford to--
Sterotyping? Perhaps. Just observing, and reading about the alarming drop in GSs. How many female general surgs do YOU know? I don't know any. How many lady anesthesiologists? I happen to know several.
I'll play some more stereotyping. Gen surgs are a particular personality type (so are neuros), an arrogant sort that aren't too feminine . Most loved they are when they sew you back together again, but are often abrasive in other contexts. And, no, I haven't the stats to back that up. Just some experience.
Ask your local hosp how easy it is lately to get new gen surgs on staff to answer emergency call.
Mark
That is an excellent point. I am intimately familiar with that BS as I once did Utilization Review--what a crock! We have a huge number of government bureaucrats trying to cut costs, while an entire industry has grown up trying to maximize reimbursement.
In the meantime, the health consumer is the loser.
Yeah, Hillary Care will make sure that we are all EQUAL. No one will have decent healthcare. The Socialist Rules and Regs will make sure of that.
HA!!
~and broke & unhealthy as we've ever been, at that.
HA!
...just *nuts*.
How do you hide a ten-dollar bill from an orthopedic surgeon? (You hide it in his medical journals)
How do you hide a ten-dollar bill from a radiologist? (You hide it on the patient)
How do you hide a ten-dollar bill from a plastic surgeon? (You can't hide a ten-dollar bill from a plastic surgeon.)
It requires some familiarity with the various specialist sterotypes to laugh at such humor, but orthopods *are* known for disliking academics, just as internists *are* known for being compulsive anal-retentives, and women *are* known to prefer the tidier specialties such as radiology, anesthesiology, opthalmology the various internal medicine specialties.
If you need general surgeons, you need general surgeons. If half of the new medical school grads (women) veer away from that specialty, then there will be fewer general surgeons. Add to that other pressures, and there's no dressmaker (dressmaker?) waiting for you in the OR when you crash your car.
Is this a great country or what?
Nobody that is except Steve Forbes. Check out forbes.com in the subject...... Steve knows and his ideas work in practice.
and no, taking these online quarrels too seriously is not something that would show up on my profile
As opposed to going to the politically connected, which is the Democrat goal.
True. But it takes time and - as someone else pointed out - the cutting edge will always be beyond the means of the average person.
... Solace for this uncomfortable, inescapable fact of existence can be had, among other places, in the teachings of Christ.
Solace can be found in many ways. You find yours in Christ. I find mine in intellectual and aesthetic exploration. There are many other - often much more destructive - ways.
What is clear is that a successful society must offer hope of a better lifetime - in this lifetime - to a sizeable segment of the population - or their children.
You're no bimbo! This is exactly correct...
We already have socialized medicine in this country, and it is destroying all medicine with it. It's called Medicare. The government tries to fix 10,000 prices in 3000 counties across the United States. Doesn't work, never has, never will. Don't think doctors are getting a piece of these double digit increases in insurance premiums, either. Here in Montana, Blue Cross is raising cost of some products 10-15%, and did the same last year. Physicians overall saw no increase in their reimbursement either year, and for some physicians reimbursement has gone down every year for the last 8 years.
Whatever you want to believe is fine with me but frivolous malpractice suits cost US untold millions every year. Honest lawyers are there for when a malpractice suit NEEDS to be filed but they are way out-numbered by the sharks.
I admit that there are some lawyers who possess the same scruples as your average businessman and will do anything for a buck, but most lawyers are more professional than you realize. Malpractice suits are not easy to win. Most of the time the lousy doctors and hospitals get away with it. parsy
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