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  • 18 Oct 2012 5:29 PM
    Reply # 1107583 on 923661
    Vilma
    No fax payday loans can be a great opiotn when you find yourself short on cash from time to time. They work by allowing you to borrow money against what your employer is expected to pay in your next paycheck. Because they are so easy, payday loans are the choice of many people who just need a little help before the next paycheck arrives.
  • 18 Oct 2012 6:13 PM
    Reply # 1107608 on 871291
    Tlou
    Just do me a favor and keep writing such trenchant alnasyes, OK?
  • 18 Oct 2012 6:29 PM
    Reply # 1107614 on 1038288
    Angel
    I'm giving three stars autrhos write well, provide information experiences medical writers. I'm giving three stars 's incomplete frustrating. Basically I felt cheated. isn't really a whole book. 's a book. section goes through experiences two autrhos become medical writers. give information exactly kind writing a medical writer , formats involved, , market yourself a job a medical writer. first book a self-published series, further information field, reader next book series, one , one , , I assume, $16.95 each. a much better project autrhos a full, complete book divided three sections: first section consist book (possibly slightly, down 100 pages), second section detail kinds writing a medical writer , third section details a job a medical writer. a much better, more complete, project stood chance being picked up a commercial publisher. I happily plunked down $19.95 $22.95 such a book. I , I felt cheated. a few self-published books I mistakenly , I've purged self-published books wish list. I going next autrhos' series Accidental Medical Writer books. next. next. next.
  • 18 Oct 2012 8:22 PM
    Reply # 1107670 on 1096334
    Copyservi
    You keep it up now, udnestrnad? Really good to know.
  • 18 Oct 2012 8:41 PM
    Reply # 1107692 on 990472
    Tax
    I agree with many of the posters that the rscerittion in the number of doctors may not be a deliberate ploy to increase doctor's wages. Nonetheless, the AMA cartel and their monopoly on certification is still a problem. They are not serving the needs of the customers (patients). Perhaps one reason is that they have overly strict standards. A lot of people here and probably within the AMA are probably convinced that relaxing standards would only lead to poorer service and thus lower medical quality, but the high standards are restricting the number of places that can serve as medical and the profitability of medical schools and restricting the number of medical students and thus the number of doctors. Obviously, having too few doctors decreases quality of medical service. In other words, if relaxing standards can increase the number of doctors, then a balance needs to be struck between high standards and having enough doctors. If there were other certifying agencies we might have more diverse responses to this doctor shortage. From the looks of it, the AMA just sounds like it's a money problem: it costs more money to open more schools, so we just need more money, without being willing to make the type of compromises that could best serve the needs of the customers, which includes both quality medical service and affordable prices (whether one pays via an insurer or directly).If people are worried about medical malpractice, I read somewhere (I think it was in Gladwell's Blink) that the more time a doctor spends with a patient the less likely they are to be sued; ie the more attentive the doctor is and the more the doctor listens to the patient, the better. Patients like this, and aren't inclined to sue doctors they like, even if that doctor errors. Thus, these overworked doctors are a formula for malpractice and thus means more work for the abundance of lawyers.
  • 18 Oct 2012 9:03 PM
    Reply # 1107816 on 1038234
    Tayten
    That's what we've all been waiting for! Great psoting!
  • 18 Oct 2012 9:40 PM
    Reply # 1107835 on 990502
    Jailen
    Clear, informative, spimle. Could I send you some e-hugs?
  • 18 Oct 2012 10:33 PM
    Reply # 1107869 on 1078219
    Jheny
    Check that off the list of things I was cnfoused about.
  • 18 Oct 2012 11:18 PM
    Reply # 1107896 on 782044
    Jaikumar
    TThere is no medical caretl. The American Medical Association, the largest physician organization, represents fewer than one-fourth of all physicians.I work in a bargaining unit position and am not a member of the union. Yet I do not deny that the union has significant influence over the economics and politics of my duty position in their dealings with my company.It has a lobbying group that has only modest influence on the government.By what statistic do you measure "modest influence?" I disagree entirely and assert that the AMA has tremendous influence over political decisions. My data is just as good as yours, so there! We are experiencing a cyclical rise in medical school applications.That could certainly be true, given the data. What evidence is there that it is true? Have you compared the growth rate in applications to the growth rate of the student population or, better yet, the growth rate of biology and/or chemistry majors?So what. Most of the applicants are unqualified and/or unsuitable.This statement is not falsifiable. "Unqualified" and "unsuitable" involve value-judgments and the main criteria for setting the bar is the limited number of seats in medical school classes.If we had a surge of Straight A students pouring applications into medical schools because of the rational belief that demand for medical services will increase for the next three decades, you cannot claim that we are in a "cycle" - the trend is changing. You also cannot say that average quality of the applicants has declined. You have come to plausible but fallacious conclusions.
  • 19 Oct 2012 1:20 AM
    Reply # 1107931 on 758217
    Roman
    There is an interesting coaporismn between US and Sweden. I spent my first 30 years in Sweden before moving to US and becoming a dual citizen. Sweden has one of the lowest health care costs, high standard of healthcare, free and universal (paid through taxes), and one of the lowest MD salaries. There are several things that strikes me: 1) In Sweden, being an MD is an honorable job, but not something you can get rich on. The "best and brightest" still seek to become doctors by passion. The salaries are determined by the local government who has to balance its health care budget by law. The private hospitals and practices follow the state salary levels.2) Sweden has a good supply of MDs from its schools. There is a surplus and a percentage of unemployed doctors. Still, it's a popular education requiring a 4.0 GPA.3) Medical school is free, so you don't have the issue with a large student loan debt.4) US is a litigious society. Law suites are quite rare in Sweden, being more of a homogenous trust society. Any award amount is based on missed earnings etc, and not as a deterent. At any rate, you don't sue an individual doctor, you will sue the hospital.Very hard to compare the two models. More as food for thought.Bottom line : The US health care system is the world's most expensive system, and we don't get the best care - it needs to be fixed! High MD salaries is probably only one of the smaller "leaks" in the system.

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