[quote name='seanr1221']Because with generics all the leg work is done for them. Do people not realize how many trials drugs go through?
I also cannot stand the doctor greed mentality. It blows my mind. Every doctor I've worked for or around got into the field to help people. People doing research make shit. Doctors have worked their assess off to get where they are and deserve some respect. If it was so easy, everyone would do it.
Call big pharm greedy, but it's a business like everything else out there.[/QUOTE]
The legwork portion is right yes, but still, a lot of that testing and research is provided for with grant money.
I don't think anyone said being a doctor was easy, its a very, very specialized line of work, most anything in the medical field is. But look at hospitals for example. They are a business and they make profits off the sick. I can't blame them for making a profit, that's not my point at all, it's their right to make money. My point is that hospitals have no problem kicking people to the curb who have no insurance or have insurance that isn't good enough. Again, I can't blame them because they need to make money to continue helping the sick. But I don't hear many stories of doctors who say own private practices and who take on patients with bad or no insurance out of the goodness of their heart. Sure, you can't give your services away for free, but I don't think doctors should also be so trigger happy in turning people away because they can't get paid.
Not saying either way is right or wrong, there's no obvious solution, these are just observations. Do I think doctors truly want to help people? Yes. But do I also think that they're going to do everything they can to make as much money as possible? Yes.
[quote name='CaseyRyback']They aren't inherently wrong either. You may dismiss them for their points, but the whole way that society treats medical professionals and professionals of all levels is pretty
ing ridiculous. Most of these professions in other parts of the world don't have the stigma and aura attached to them as they do in the US. Doctors historically were not regarded with the sort of prestige that has come to define them. All this is a 20th century invention. A societal realignment needs to take place where these people shouldn't be put on such a high level, and the whole industry needs to reduce its spiraling costs.[/QUOTE]
To be honest, like I said earlier, the medical field is so specialized it's hard NOT to put them on a high level. Same goes for lawyers, engineers, programmers, certain mechanics, etc. I'm not saying that those other professions contribute the same benefits to society that doctors do, but those are also specialized jobs that are placed on a fairly high level.
Doctors and lawyers are two absolutes that most common people need to have in their life. You need a good doctor, and you need a good lawyer and that's why those two professions in particular are looked at with such awe and that awe is not going to go away any time soon.
