Further, you clearly don’t know what YOU are talking about either. MD is the initials for one of two degrees one can get to become a physician, not an abbreviation for doctor. The abbreviation for doctor is Dr. Further, plurals don’t use apostrophes. MDs is correct pluralization of MD; MD’s is incorrect. MD’s is possessive. Next time, try to form a coherent thought before posting.

One Retired but not Tired Doctor

For example, certain foods, with a high success rate, have been known to prevent and even successfully treat cancer, but there’s not much money that can be made from these because natural elements and compounds cannot be patented. Only artificial, man-made, products, like what the drug companies produce, can be patented, but they come with many adverse side effects and low success rate in treating disease. But, because they can be patented, there’s much money to be made from them.

It seems hard to compare the training of two careers, especially if you’ve never been through one of the trainings you are comparing yourself to. Sort of like saying “I just started a new exercise program, and its every bit as demanding as going through Marine boot camp”.

I have an MD. The training for it is pretty rough; first getting into medical school which requires exceptional credentials (which were not just handed out to anyone who comes from a “just plain wealthy environment”), then getting through med school, then the 30hr shifts, the 100hr weeks, the IOUs to family for quality time. All of which was payed for with debt of over $200K. I don’t know how rough it is to be a clinical psychologist; I’ve never done it. But I do know that there is one thing that a medical doctor has to deal with that other care providers don’t. That is that “the buck stops here”. When all is said and done, its the MD who is responsible for giving the potentially lethal drug to a patient having a stroke, or find the hemmorhaging vessel and tie it off, or decide what chemotherapy to give. And we also have to live with the burden of the failures in a way that the non-decision makers will never have to. For that reason, yes, MDs do feel a bit entitled.

For the record, I’m all for a single-payer system, even if it means my personal salary drops. I do, however, feel that having an above-average salary is something that MDs earn.

I also have a feeling that most MDs would be able to do just fine if they “had to compete in the real job market”, as the work-ethic, intelligence, and skill-set needed to become an MD in the first place is probably more generalizable than you are making it out to be.

– If they only knew how simple cancer was!! It can easily be cured by diet and vitamins!! They should have read my blog!! They should have eaten more peas!! If they had, they would be alive and feeling great today!! And all those medical researchers who dedicate their careers to studying a disease are just idiots!! All they needed to do was read an online post from earthclinic.com and they would understand everything so much more clearly!! –

I get irritated when people elude to medical science as more closed-minded then things such as holistic medicine. I see it as exactly the opposite – the entire point of science is the admission that we don’t know all the answers and don’t want to jump to conclusions. Anyone can say anything they want: “toadstools cure HIV”, “asparagus stops gout”, “the sun revolves around the earth”. Science then says “Whoa, wait a minute… Lets actually test these things and see if there’s any validity to them”. People who tout “cures” to complicated diseases through some sort of untested treatment are simply closed-minded and uninformed.

Oh, and our healthcare system is very flawed (to get back on topic).