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Medical Forum / General / General / November 2005Think
THINK ABOUT THIS! A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it's a free market. A toy company can out source to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it's a free market. A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it's a free market. We can buy HP Printers made in Mexico. We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh. When I need to speak to someone about my computer, I talk to some- body in India. We can purchase almost anything we want from 20 different countries BUT, heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian pharmacy. That's called un-American! And you think the pharmaceutical companies don't have a powerful lobby? > We can purchase almost anything we > want from 20 different countries [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > That's called un-American! And you think the pharmaceutical companies > don't have a powerful lobby? COMMENT: The pharm companies do indeed have a powerful lobby. Much more powerful than that of the doctors. Medical politics in the US is controlled by insurance, pharma, HMOs, hospital corporations, and government. We doctors just work here. We get 20% of the money, but we are forbidden to unionize, and we're politically too fragmented to be able to do much about anything that goes on. I think we'd have a better system if we were in charge of it, but I guess we'll never know, will we? While doctors were going to school learning about medicine, the guys who were learning about business and politics instead, took over the whole shebang. Thus is it ever. Engineers and scientists don't get rich, either. The people who hire them do. For that matter, the chemists at pharm companies don't get rich, either. SBH While doctors were going to school learning about medicine, the guys who were learning about business and politics instead, took over the whole shebang. Thus is it ever. Engineers and scientists don't get rich, either. The people who hire them do. For that matter, the chemists at pharm companies don't get rich, either. SBH Well that is an interesting thought. However my cardiologist collects Ferrari's. His neighbor is an exec at Merck. He collects antique biplanes and owns a small jet. Anyone who believes that doctors dont get rich on Inside trading info Prescribing incentives Over utilization etc. is fooling themselves.... > Well that is an interesting thought. However my cardiologist collects > Ferrari's. Must be an interventive cardiologist---- a stenter. This makes a difference of factor of 2 or 3 in income. > His neighbor is an exec at Merck. He collects antique > biplanes and owns a small jet. But he makes my point, not yours. A business wonk not a scientist (and if he works for Merck might be collecting a pink slip sometime soon). >Anyone who believes that doctors dont > get rich on [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > is fooling themselves.... You're fooling yourself. Most doctors are not rich. Most of the richest people are certainly (damn certainly) not medical doctors. Is there overutilization in medicine? Sure. Are the doctors who have a procedure like stenting the most guilty of it? Sure. But there are an awful lot of middle class internists and pediatricians for every cath lab Ferrari driver. SBH "A rose blooms ~ The contact of form, contract of spirit Cultivated with matter, Where blossoming form weds point Of line's perfect circumference, Encircles perimeter of golden geometry, A blessed wild fragile thing Grows more fervently, If artfully romanced ~ A Hermit Thrush Sings song Not only of point, not only encircled, Inscribed, or described, Scribbling, but song of Quill's written Will Or The Architect of Reason's Blew Print ..." ~ Mum |
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