I don't think many people start out in biz & are able to work 3.5 days a week. Once you make it, you can cut back some, until recently of course. I just refuse to see a doc who has a constantly full waiting room, harried staff & always runs late. I think the docs that try to see 6-10 patients an hour suck. That's where people start thinking - this guy is billing $1,200 to $1,500 per hour...., the nurse does everything, the guy walks in and asks me whats wrong? I say "I have the flu"... he looks at my tongue & throat, temperature, etc and tells me "You have the flu, that will be $150; come back if the medicine doesnt work w/in a week." and you're thinking "No shit, I have the flu & I'm a Buck Fifty lighter too."
You are wrong...completely. I said half of DRs are bad people, not all. I could refute all of your points if I cared enough to do that, but why try to change your opinion? I hate the DRs who prescibe medication to me that they know does not work, such as most anti depressants. Or the DR who sent me to have a biopsy of my thyroid, having another DR stick a needle 3 inches into my throat, for no good reason. I hope the kickback the hospital paid him paid for some cool 20 inch wheels for his Porsche. I went to the ER in May with what was possibly swine flu and left their facility 2 days later, after being lied to numerous times, sicker than I was when I went in. Now I have to pay for that???? You've made millions and seem like a decent guy.......defending the DRs I write of is akin to defending a pedophile. I have about 40 more such stories and I am young and healthy..... If you missed the true point of this rant.....it is.......stop defending the DRs who are bankrupting America and being assholes, we all know who they are, even you, and saying it is the fault of "the system".
LOL at the "articulate educated" (sic) part. This is a guy who quotes Paul Krugman like he's an authority or something.
Yeah, I got tired of my doc constantly checking stock quotes during my last open-heart surgery. Argument by ridiculous stereotypes...what will come next? The level of debate at ET is about as low as the collective IQ at a quasi-religious "Yes we can! Change! Spread other people's wealth to my fat a@@"!" rally.
A greedy legal system and far too many "Americans" who believe in their God given entitlement wouldn't have anything to do with the obscene amount of lawsuits would it? Anyone who bashes anyone else for their LEGAL pursuit of profits be they doctor, lawyer, trader etc... has no business being in a forum who's ultimate focus is making $.
I agree, but the vast majority of these socialist mided people are likely unsuccessful at trading (and everything else). They're not taking anyone's money.
Maybe they're not taking anybody's money via trading but who's money pays for all the handouts and entitlements the whining , whimpering socialist promote / receive? Ours - those of us actually making $. This is the basic problem with this country - We've allowed too many soft indiviuals that can't succeed by their own ability spend far too much time envying / coveting those of us that can. they want what we have but they want it by insurrection not by initiative.
Have you ever heard of George Soros? People who's minds are locked in a rigid ideology do not make good traders. They don't have the mental flexibility. The exception are pit traders and market makers who trade with a built-in institutional edge and have a sense of entitlement, not unlike many doctors. Real traders have empathy for others because they have been through so much themselves. Obviously you are not a real trader.