Welcome, Mario.

As one of the most ranting contributors on the boards, I appreciate your company. I know my patients (not all but many) are very, very worried about the upcoming proposed changes to health care. They are not confident that the current government will produce a viable solution for them. It may be great for those "underprivileged" patients but not for the hard-working middle class. I had one patient comment to me this week, "I have no problems with the meek inheriting the Earth. I do, however, resent the stupid and the lazy getting it all."

On another note, I have as a patient probably the biggest malparactice lawyer in my community. He was in the office the other day and telling me how he had seen an orthopedist in town for a shoulder problem. He is also defending this doctor in 2 malparactice cases. The two exchanged professional advice...the ortho advising treatment for the shoulder, the lawyer advising the course of the legal case. When the lawyer left, he had made $150 and the ortho $60. Speaks volumes.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "