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A little humor :)
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I think a good heart surgeon is a 2 or 3 million a year man and 4 or 5 doesn't seem impossible. I think an average to mediocre GP makes at least a couple hundred grand. Trick is to continue to keep the numbers low and thus wages high due to scarcity of practitioners. My last echo said my aortic valve leak was only 'mild to moderate'. Kinda makes a person feel funny though when they know everytime his heart beats the main outflow valve fails to fully close with resultant backflow. Saw it on the echo screen myself.
.....guess I'd fail a leakdown test for sure........
The thought of that kind of a personal 'valve job' frequently wakes me up at night in a very cold sweat.
.....guess I'd fail a leakdown test for sure........
The thought of that kind of a personal 'valve job' frequently wakes me up at night in a very cold sweat.
Melting Slicks
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From: Brea CA
ok... remember...
There was this Orthoscopic Surgeon got tired of the life and death in his job... decided to go into automotive repair... took a class on how to rebuild a engine... The instructor told the Dr.... he could only give him an "A" but wished he could give a higher grade... He told the Dr., that he rebuilt the engine perfectly.... but... nobody had ever done all the work through the exhaust pipe before.... 
Last edited by AtHomeSoda; Mar 30, 2007 at 12:35 AM.
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I think a good heart surgeon is a 2 or 3 million a year man and 4 or 5 doesn't seem impossible. I think an average to mediocre GP makes at least a couple hundred grand. Trick is to continue to keep the numbers low and thus wages high due to scarcity of practitioners. My last echo said my aortic valve leak was only 'mild to moderate'. Kinda makes a person feel funny though when they know everytime his heart beats the main outflow valve fails to fully close with resultant backflow. Saw it on the echo screen myself.
.....guess I'd fail a leakdown test for sure........
The thought of that kind of a personal 'valve job' frequently wakes me up at night in a very cold sweat.
.....guess I'd fail a leakdown test for sure........
The thought of that kind of a personal 'valve job' frequently wakes me up at night in a very cold sweat.
A good heart surgeon might make 1/2 million, the busiest might make a million. 2-3 million? Don't think so. The average GP makes 100k.
Keep this in mind....a heart surgeon goes through 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, followed by 10 years of post graduate training (typically 6 years of general surgery residency, and another 3-5 years of cardiothoracic surgery training). That brings him / her to 36 years old before he starts practicing, and typically over 40 before partnership. By that time he typically owes 200k in educational debt.
Not only that, but he typically spends upwards of 100 hours / week in training, possibly 80 hours a week in career. Available for emergencies 24/7, pays 100k in malpractice insurance, and typically ends up divorced paying half his salary in alimony. Not only that, but every case, even the easy ones, are risky and there is always tension and the possibility of a complication. A good heart surgeon keeps his pager / phone on for issues that arise after surgery at all times. A good nights sleep without interruption - unheard of.
Not to make a light joke into a political commentary, but please keep the above in mind when quoting such absurd figures.
Last edited by cmb13; Mar 30, 2007 at 09:48 AM.
Drifting
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From: Denton The Lone Star State!
Thats great! as an Aircraft Maint. Tech. with the biggest Airline in the world,I asked a passenger(he was upset because he was delayed 30 min.) if he thought about calling AAA at 35,000 ft. while pulled over to the side of the skies?, cant do that can ya? hey my mother was a pioneer patient at one of th best schools/hospitlals in Cal.,(back in the early 60's) I appreciate what these Guys do!
