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carbonrx8

May 15, 2007, 1:34 PM

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climb_eng wrote:

...- Doctor: Great pay, you can climb six months and have six months off....

Ha! This makes me chuckle. Sure, there are some docs out there making big bucs, but they are the minority. And if you are making money, you are working. Consider what you would feel like working 28 days a month on average, 12-36 hour shifts with no end in sight. Climbing would be the farthest thing from your mind. Even if you are a primary care doc and working normal 12 hour shifts, 6 days a week, you are only getting reimbursed half of what you bill for. THat means for a 15 minute visit you might bill $45 and get $20. Now you have to pay your billing agent, your land lord, your receptionist, your $30,000 malpractice bill, and yourself, with what comes out to be about $50-100 dollars an hour (for all that, not just you). Good luck with that. If you break even you are doing well.

If you sincerely want to help sick people, go into medicine; if you want to make money (real money) forget it.

Edit: no I am not a doc (at least not an MD.) But I know several, particularly the one that administers to me the "painful elbow procedure" when I snore. She claims that elbow proceedure is SOC. I think she is using it "off-label."

(This post was edited by carbonrx8 on May 15, 2007, 1:38 PM)

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