[Snowrunner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'I') guess I should say that's the net. It's after business expenses. I was starting up a practice so I had lots of deductions and not a lot of income. And no I didn't cheat on my taxes if that's what you're implying.

[ohcomeon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Snowrunner', 'W')as that what your tax return stated or what you actually billed / were paid before any deductions?

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ohcomeon', 'E')ven you have to admit, SPG, that it won't always be that way. In fact, depending upon lease agreements, equipment depreciation methods, increased patient base, etc., your net profit will climb quickly in the next few years,

[misterno]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ohcomeon', 'S')orry, dream16, but I never met a doctor, solo or not, who didn't make more than me. And I paid the bills on my salary. So could they. In fact, in the last five years I worked for primary practice (2002-2007), we had no doctors, not even the part-timers, who made less than six digit incomes. And yes, that was their pay check after the practice expenses.

[twobyfouroftruth]

No.

My friends first year as a doctor was 16,500 and he worked 36 hour shifts and every day from 7 am to 7 pm. every third night had to work also.

Second year was 17600 and last year was 21,000.

Had one law suit on a patient he didn't even but in a group setting where he did the H&P workup.

4th year was 42,000 and he had loans of 180,000 dollars.

Medical fees are 12 a year for license, and B&O tax on top of loan interest.
took him 7 years to get out of debt

He now makes 140,000 and pays 60% of that, also his own malpractice which is 18,500 that must be paid BEFORE he practices this was hard in year 4 had to take a loan.

Now his attorney who he hired charged 350 dollars an hour .

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterno', 'T')his is a joke right?

[twobyfouroftruth]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ohcomeon', 'E')ven you have to admit, SPG, that it won't always be that way. In fact, depending upon lease agreements, equipment depreciation methods, increased patient base, etc., your net profit will climb quickly in the next few years,

[twobyfouroftruth]

Look, medicine is like GM or Ford.
The old guys who have a clinch on the hospital and have been in the comunity make a ton and they do not share, the new people coming in get the garbage and the difficult hard cases that take a lof of time. One doc I know in portland partnered with another and all they do isw family practice and hand out prozac to middle aged women and he pulls in 46,000 a MONTH after expenses, him and his partner...

while the younguns and those who didnt fall into a good job make didly.

just like CEO's some make millions while the workers dont survive.

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'G')ot to love that condescending physician attitude.

[smallpoxgirl]

Yeah. That's me to a T.

Think about what you know of me PM. My grandest ambition in life is to have some land where I can raise goats. I drive a 15 year old Saturn, live in a rented duplex, and made $19,000 last year. Does any of that remind you of God? I'm about as plain old folks as they come.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

I have often thought it was stupid to overwork doctors for things like when your work wants you to bring in a note. Its obvious you ahve a cold or flu so why do you have to go to a doctor for that. Or is that like giving a doctor a 5 minute break because it is a simple thing they can charge for.

Should we burden doctors for small trivial things? Face it we have become a society of whiners, we have to see doctors for almost everything... (yes, taht is a generalization and I don't mean the majority of peak oil peoples.)

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', ' ') My grandest ambition in life is to have some land where I can raise goats. I drive a 15 year old Saturn, live in a rented duplex, and made $19,000 last year.

[Ayoob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('misterno', 'T')his is a joke right?

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'I') have often thought it was stupid to overwork doctors for things like when your work wants you to bring in a note. Its obvious you ahve a cold or flu so why do you have to go to a doctor for that. Or is that like giving a doctor a 5 minute break because it is a simple thing they can charge for.

[RedStateGreen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '
')
Its not surprising Doctors are ready to quit here, but just what are these folks going to do as an alternative? Go out and drive a truck?

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', ':')lol:

Yeah. That's me to a T.

Think about what you know of me PM. My grandest ambition in life is to have some land where I can raise goats. I drive a 15 year old Saturn, live in a rented duplex, and made $19,000 last year. Does any of that remind you of God? I'm about as plain old folks as they come.

[TommyJefferson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'R')VUs - Relative Value Units. ...This is why our healthcare system is the way it is.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', ' ')When it's something simple like a work note, that's bonus.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TommyJefferson', 'H')ere's an interesting interview from Lew Rockwell this week where a doctor describes how the government broke the physician/patient relationship