Modern medicine

[sasguru]

. I am going to take a wild guess and say that you never got the exam results to get into medical school.

Does seem to be some sour grapes there.

[Menelaus]

So because you don't like the fact that doctors earn decent money you want change the system in the UK to model a communist dictatorship where people will jump on a inflated tractor inner tube as soon as the wind starts blowing in the direction of the USA. I am going to take a wild guess and say that you never got the exam results to get into medical school.

Not too wild a guess in my case: took five A levels - got 4 As (maths, further maths, physics, biology) and the one subject I needed an A in (chemistry) I got an E



Anyway - if I'd gotten all five I wouldn't be a contractor ...

[NotAllThere]

There's no money in the cure!

When was the last time scientists found a cure for anything? Nowadays they find a drug to help with medication....that where the money is

Just recently in the news, two men who had inoperable prostate cancer are now cancer free, because of a new, experimental drug, with the catchy name "MDX-ZERO-ONE-ZERO".

[Menelaus]

Just recently in the news, two men who had inoperable prostate cancer are now cancer free, because of a new, experimental drug, with the catchy name "MDX-ZERO-ONE-ZERO".

Indeed, and the doctor on hand last week cured Michael Jackson of that nasty oxygen habit he'd developed!

[minestrone]

Not too wild a guess in my case: took five A levels - got 4 As (maths, further maths, physics, biology) and the one subject I needed an A in (chemistry) I got an E



Anyway - if I'd gotten all five I wouldn't be a contractor ...

gf scraped into medical with 4As and a B.

[sasguru]

I have a solution for TimberWolf. Don't visit a doctor ever. If you're ill treat yourself. Hope you have a good epitaph ready.

Perhaps "Here lies Timberwolf. He diied young because he was a bit of a plonker"

HTH

[snaw]

Indeed, and the doctor on hand last week cured Michael Jackson of that nasty oxygen habit he'd developed!

People seem to be jumping to an incredible amount of conclusions based on nothing more than pure speculation and hearsay.

[Pogle]

People seem to be jumping to an incredible amount of conclusions based on nothing more than pure speculation and hearsay.

- just another day at CUK then....

[expat]

After all isn’t it a fact that the healthiest people are those that never see a doctor?

Are you sure about the implied cause and effect here? Just asking.

[PM-Junkie]

Being a doctor is probably a cushier number than being a bus driver. After all, the worse and hardest jobs also tend to be the lowest paid in Western economies. How do they get people to be doctors in Cuba, rather than them going for a cushy number like a bus driver? Perhaps doctors there aren't in it for the money?

Congratulations, one of the dumbest statement I have ever read on this forum from someone who clearly knows absolutely zip about what being a doctor actually involves.

If you were to direct your criticism to the pharmaceutical industry then I would agree with you since I think they have a lot to answer for (not necessarily in the MJ case though). And there is definitely an issue in the US because of the way their health "service" is in cahoots with insurance companies - but comments like that make you look just as silly as the muppet who calls himself "pzz".