Re: [APML] Payment for astrophotos

["Robert Gendler" <robgendler@worldnet.att.net>]

Oh so you don't admire doc's who have spent half their lives training
to do those procedures which pay so well. When you're having your
MI and desperately need a stent placed in one of your coronary arteries
I bet you'll go to your small town generalist who you so admire. Yeah right.

Rob Gendler

>
> Their tax lawyer. And I do know that small town generalists--who are
> essential to the system--don't make this kind of money. Those Docs I
> especially admire.
>
> Andy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David B. Toth" <ve3gyq@amsat.org>
> To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 9:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [APML] Payment for astrophotos
>
>
> > At 08:18 AM 11/2/2002 -0600, awallacejr@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> > >Bobby-
> > >
> > >I represent a number of Docs in the Dallas area. If they are doing
> > >"procedures" or work in any number of specialties, it is not at all
> unusual
> > >for their annual net after expenses to be over $1,000,000.00. That will
> buy
> > >some astro gear! :-) And most don't work 90 hours a week either.
> Medicare,
> > >paperwork and all, was one of the best things that ever happened to
most
> > >Docs.
> >
> > I'd sure like to meet them ... those sure must be great procedures they
> are
> > doing.
> > The rest of us schmoos who don't do procedure-based medicine never come
> > within barking distance of that.
> > And you are mistaken - medicare has been steadily declining, and like
> > social security, its collapse is inevitable, so plan ahead (i.e. die
young
> > or save $$$  for retirement or move to Canada when you retire <grin>)
> >
> > Just curious - how do you "represent them" ?
> >
> > Dave
> > PS: if they seem to have so much $$$, you must not have subtracted their
> > malpractice costs. An obstetrician in our Ohio town of 50,000 pays about
> > $120-140,000 annually in premiums - that is also a lot of where YOUR
> > dollars went.
> >
> >
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