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Originally posted by Menelaus View PostMy GP, God love 'im, has his off days too.
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostThere are a lot of bad ones, Yesterday the gf comes home moaning because if you get a swine flu call you are meant to take a pack with swabs, wipes and protective clothing and go to the person's house. Doctor she works with is to lazy he invites the guy into the surgery. Potential to infect 50 folk in the waiting room, 8 doctors, 10 nurses and everyone on the bus there and back. He got a moaning at but realistically nobody can do anything to him. Should I be telling you this?
Typical Doctor, think they know best and ignores what anyone else tells them....
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Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View PostThere are barriers to entry too. Someone on this board was complaining about trying to apply for public sector roles but turned down because he/she didn't have any previous offences to be taken into consideration.
I don't care - it's not my money.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostDoes that apply to the public sector too, where demand for services always seems to exceed supply? Not least in medicine where if you cure the beggers they just come down with something else to be cured.
I don't care - it's not my money.
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Originally posted by expat View PostAs Adam smith pointed out a long time ago, the level of wages for a job is partly determined by the proportion of people who attempt the job but fail; the more people fail entry qualifications, or drop out during training, the more the successful candidates see their pay boosted.
Obviously these barriers to entry for doctors are substantial, and this is a major factor in the earning power of successful doctors.
In IT, by contrast, it often seems to me that nobody drops out, no matter how intellectually unsuitable they may be.
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostThere are a lot of bad ones, Yesterday the gf comes home moaning because if you get a swine flu call you are meant to take a pack with swabs, wipes and protective clothing and go to the person's house. Doctor she works with is to lazy he invites the guy into the surgery. Potential to infect 50 folk in the waiting room, 8 doctors, 10 nurses and everyone on the bus there and back. He got a moaning at but realistically nobody can do anything to him. Should I be telling you this?
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As Adam smith pointed out a long time ago, the level of wages for a job is partly determined by the proportion of people who attempt the job but fail; the more people fail entry qualifications, or drop out during training, the more the successful candidates see their pay boosted.
Obviously these barriers to entry for doctors are substantial, and this is a major factor in the earning power of successful doctors.
In IT, by contrast, it often seems to me that nobody drops out, no matter how intellectually unsuitable they may be.
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Originally posted by TonyEnglish View PostI must admit that I have not been impressed by My GP whenever I have needed to see him. he simply hands out prescriptions for antibiotics. One time my wife was prescribed pain killers which she couldn't take because of her kidney transplant. It was my wife who questioned him about them and he changed the prescription
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Originally posted by TonyEnglish View PostI must admit that I have not been impressed by My GP whenever I have needed to see him. he simply hands out prescriptions for antibiotics. One time my wife was prescribed pain killers which she couldn't take because of her kidney transplant. It was my wife who questioned him about them and he changed the prescription
That having been said, my diagnostic skills are, I'm sure, nowhere near as good as his. I had a knee injury two years ago during a rugby match (yes, yes...I know) and his intervention (we play for the same team) prevented me from being carted off the park in the ambulance - he was able to put the detail in context and took me to the A&E himself, explaining what was wrong thus getting me into early surgery.
Despite paragraph 2, above, when we're playing a training game I'll still call him a ****.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostYes but I bet they can do basic maths
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostYou're serious aren't you? You really think that a doctor and an IT developer (say) are comparable.
Why is CUK so full of deluded idiots?
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