Reply #127: Don't think vets do this. [View All]

Surgeon or pyschiatrist, just for an example:

13 years K to 12

04 years college

04 years med school

01 year internship

05 years residency.

That's 27 years of school/training, making them around 32 (very tired and deeply in debt) before they are ready to operate or shrink in private practice.


For neurosurgery, add another 5 years to the residency, bringing it to 32 years of education and about 37 years of age.


And during the non-school years, they are working 36 hour shifts sometimes. Of course, the profession could change that part of it if it chose, but it doesn't. " Sure, it increases risk to patients, but we had to go through it and so do you. ...." is about the mentality. Every now and again, the state threatens to pass a law reducing the shifts and the AMA says, "Oh, no, let us police ourselves." And the state backs off.

So what. If some exhausted surgery resident lops off your left arm instead of your right one, you can always sue.

Oh, wait. Maybe not. That's where tort "reform" comes in to help the docs' and hospitals; malpracticce insurance companies.

So, the profession gets what it wants, the doctors eventually get what they want, the insurers always get what the want and the armless guy can just sit in a corner and twiddle his thumbs.


Oh, wait....