Guest guest Posted January 9, 2003 Report Share Posted January 9, 2003 In a message dated 1/9/03 11:20:25 AM, Graduate-OSSG writes: << $200.00 >> Dear Randy: I think maybe medical malpractice insurance is more like $200,000 plus, per year, and its more if a doc has had complaints in the past twenty years or if he has been named defendent in lawsuits. But, not 200.00. For plain old therapists malpractice insurance is running well over 2 grand a year now, and more if you are male, and more if you have been greived against or sued-- rightly or wrongly does not seem to matter. Part of the problem is with the insurers. Part of the problem is no caps on court settlements for malpractice. Also, lots of docs of the older age group didn't necessarily go into medicine becuase they wanted to heal people, help people, but becuae they wanted the lifestyle, the instant regard without necessarily workng to earn it, the high financial rewards. For years the insurance companies subsidized docs the way the Feds subsidized farmers. (In fact, the idiom is the sme, pay them overly much for what they do then trun around and pay them not to gorw tha crop, not to do that surgery---its so sick) I teach second and third year residents, and boy, since managed care, the whole landscape of who wants to be a doc and who doesn't has changed. There are FAR fewer 'country club dreamers' applying. It is one of the strangest parts of the incredible mess that managed care has brought to us, that medicine is attracting more young people who really do want to heal and help and are not just in it for the money and hubris alone. Amazing. love, ceep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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