Post #215,650
7/19/05 4:57:17 PM
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Ok, cretin.
Just because you make a disclaimer that some doctors may be ok, then go on to call most of them fascists, pigs, etc, etc don't cut it, pinhead. I don't lead THAT charmed a life that I can believe that (based on the doctors and med-staf I KNOW and am RELATED TO) 'most physicians' are greedy shits out to soak people. If that's what floats your boat, bubby, then by all means hallucinate away. You can live in your little black-and-white fantasy world where 'impoverishing clinicians' is the right thing to do, but like I said, I want to be there to laugh when you complain about the state of medical care if even a FRACTION of your brain-dead ideas are ever put into place.
You didn't say anything moderate, you fucking asshole. You weren't arguing specifically against obscenely high medical rates - you were arguing to IMPOVERISH (remember that word? No? Syphilis kick in again?) medical workers. Then you tried to insist that doctors aren't REALLY under financial pressure, that the AMA protected them from any liability, and that they can pay off all expenses by going to underserved areas to practice.
In closing, you moronic get of a diseased babboon - you haven't managed to actually SAY anything that makes any kind of point, or even makes any SENSE, at all!
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Post #215,651
7/19/05 5:04:56 PM
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Again, you mislead.
Impoverish physicians != Impoverish all medical workers. HTH, pinhead.
bcnu,
Mikem
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Post #215,657
7/19/05 5:35:36 PM
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_I_ mislead?
You tell me I can't read when you can't even decipher what you wrote? Here: "And, if we are going to be able to afford it, clinicians and hospitals are going to have to be impoverished." cli\ufffdni\ufffdcian Pronunciation Key (kl-nshn) n. - A health professional, such as a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, or nurse, involved in clinical practice, as distinguished from one specializing in research.
- A health professional who practices at a clinic.
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- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Post #215,660
7/19/05 5:54:22 PM
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Free clue, knucklefuckers.
Take this to Politics.
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Post #215,661
7/19/05 5:57:59 PM
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But I'm having too much fun HERE!
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] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #215,664
7/19/05 6:02:39 PM
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Crap. I c. My bad.
I had this argument with a few physicians my wife works with that we had at a party a couple of years ago. I've always refused to call a physician "doctor" and was arguing with the MDs that they were clinicians, not doctors; for, doctors wrote and defended dissertations and mds did not. After quite a few beers and a visit to m-w.com, they all agreed that "clinician" fit them better than "doctor". So, when I say "clinician" I mean "physician". One of them even introduces himself as "Clinician X" to patients in the ER now. ;0)
bcnu,
Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #215,671
7/19/05 6:35:44 PM
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OK
I still say the problem isn't greedy doctors. Or hospitals, for that matter.
It's the goddamned insurance companies, and their partners in 'crime', the lawyers.
I've worked in the insurance industry in one capacity or another for the last 23 years; the profit margins are obscene, regulation is minimal, and government falls all over itself to make insurance mandatory.
It's not just MDs of course, the insurance industry infects everything.
Having said that, one of the reasons I'm happy with my current job is that my current employer is one of the most moral insurers I've ever worked for - they allow employees a say in company policies, the CEO has informal chat sessions with low-level employees in order to get an idea about problems, and they don't rape their customers. Our economic landscape might be a LOT better if more companies were like this one. I plan to stay here a long time; I don't feel dirty workng here. I only hope they keep it up as they grow.
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] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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