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After a physician in practice pays his family’s health care insurance, his retirement, disability, malpractice, license fees, professional organization fees, mortgage, car payments and all the rest (since he or she is typically responsible for his or her own benefit package), each month’s salary leaves about $600 of free money.
My wife and I found this rather comical. Some of you may be coming from a more financially sound background, but that ain't me folks.
I would LOVE to have $600 of "free" money each month after ALL my bills were paid. This is a weak apologetic, and should have been excluded.
The remainder of his points are certainly valid. More emphasis should be placed on the human factor of medicine. There are too many stoic physicians in the field. I firmly believe that a provider can supply emotional support as well as medicinal. There should not be a dichotomy.
After all, isn't the lack of emotion itself, an emotion?
We're not Vulcans here people!