Well, I feel the important data is not big pharma offering payouts, but our "health care professionals" taking it.
Many doctors may be pompous assholes, but it goes without saying they are not stupid. They may be ignorant, like any mortal, but not stupid. Accepting such large sums of cash clearly under the table indicates some high-level mass citizen-fuckery taking place.
I can't believe they expect "bonuses" or "tips" for simply fulfilling their Hippocratic Oath responsibilities.
-They know. They know everything is going to change for them. Kind'a ironic that the vile persecution they wanted foisted on us is going to completely submerge them. They will not know the peace they once took for granted with their elevated societal status.
They are, and most certainly will be, scared shitless. Deservedly so.
Does it go without saying that they are not stupid? Many is the physician that I have met that I concluded I would have preferred to encounter while under anesthesia.
Compounding the problem is everyone treating MDs as if they are geniuses -- the M.Deity syndrome.
No. They make mistakes.
But! Today's medicine is metric bound and liability policed. Test results one smidgen higher or lower than 'average' require medication without consideration of all the other activities of the body.
There is a wonderful documentary -- I believe it is called "Rounds" -- that shows older physicians instructing medical students. The older physicians do wild things like listening to the patient, touching the patient, and asking questions. Shocking. Then, if they need to know more, they look at the tests. The medical students swoon in confusion. The older doctors get the diagnoses right more often than not and they seem to be able to hear trouble coming with impressive accuracy.
Well, I feel the important data is not big pharma offering payouts, but our "health care professionals" taking it.
Many doctors may be pompous assholes, but it goes without saying they are not stupid. They may be ignorant, like any mortal, but not stupid. Accepting such large sums of cash clearly under the table indicates some high-level mass citizen-fuckery taking place.
I can't believe they expect "bonuses" or "tips" for simply fulfilling their Hippocratic Oath responsibilities.
-They know. They know everything is going to change for them. Kind'a ironic that the vile persecution they wanted foisted on us is going to completely submerge them. They will not know the peace they once took for granted with their elevated societal status.
They are, and most certainly will be, scared shitless. Deservedly so.
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Does it go without saying that they are not stupid? Many is the physician that I have met that I concluded I would have preferred to encounter while under anesthesia.
Compounding the problem is everyone treating MDs as if they are geniuses -- the M.Deity syndrome.
No. They make mistakes.
But! Today's medicine is metric bound and liability policed. Test results one smidgen higher or lower than 'average' require medication without consideration of all the other activities of the body.
There is a wonderful documentary -- I believe it is called "Rounds" -- that shows older physicians instructing medical students. The older physicians do wild things like listening to the patient, touching the patient, and asking questions. Shocking. Then, if they need to know more, they look at the tests. The medical students swoon in confusion. The older doctors get the diagnoses right more often than not and they seem to be able to hear trouble coming with impressive accuracy.