tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post7891564785111889818..comments2023-08-20T04:55:39.436-07:00Comments on Ars Psychiatrica: How Much is a Psychiatrist Worth?Novalishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-67772586847651959392009-01-09T06:04:00.000-08:002009-01-09T06:04:00.000-08:00Not facetious-captivatedNot facetious-captivatedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-71138847925160647582009-01-09T05:15:00.000-08:002009-01-09T05:15:00.000-08:00Where's my canoe?????Dr Ab SnopesWhere's my canoe?????<BR/>Dr Ab SnopesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-94111324654106182009-01-08T18:37:00.000-08:002009-01-08T18:37:00.000-08:00and I mean SUV driving mums - a very different bre...and I mean SUV driving mums - a very different breed indeed...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-74473526797609432732009-01-08T18:34:00.000-08:002009-01-08T18:34:00.000-08:00flawedplan,Psychiatrists don't necessarily 'choose...flawedplan,<BR/><BR/>Psychiatrists don't necessarily 'choose' which patients they treat --that would be superficial discrimination, and contradictory to the ethos of why they decided to practice in the first place.<BR/><BR/>ANd, when I said 'people they're forced to deal with', I'm actually not casting any nasty aspersions about the patients themsleves. Obviously, I'm intimating the possible perspective UNETHICAL PSYCHS unconsciously/consciously subscribe to.<BR/><BR/>I think most people aren't so ignorant as to not understand that patients vary with geography/socioeconomic class. Working class area psychs don't treat the same types of patients/disorders as others practising in predominantly white upper middle class suburbs plagued with stay at home mums driving their spoilt kids around the corner to school.<BR/><BR/>I want a war between thoughtless ignorance and open-mindedness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-27977551451681938912009-01-08T15:37:00.000-08:002009-01-08T15:37:00.000-08:00Aw, shucks. Now how do I get your check to you? ...Aw, shucks. Now how do I get your check to you? (There's always money in the budget for extravagant praise).<BR/><BR/>Wait, you're not that facetious Anonymous, are you?Novalishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-63050906172053023022009-01-08T12:29:00.000-08:002009-01-08T12:29:00.000-08:00Novalis for President! Really enjoy your blog pos...Novalis for President! Really enjoy your blog posts and your general philosophies. $134,000 seems like a fair salary for a young (new)psychiatrist. It's important work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-60434778697018100322009-01-08T09:38:00.000-08:002009-01-08T09:38:00.000-08:00the type of people they're "forced to deal with da...the type of people they're "forced to deal with daily?" Forced, for real? Pot meet kettle anonymous. <BR/><BR/>I'm the "type of people" psychiatrists choose to deal with daily and you're not even close.<BR/><BR/>I want a war between the rich and the poor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-63001386917019735042009-01-07T20:22:00.000-08:002009-01-07T20:22:00.000-08:00..Depends on the cost of malpractice insurance and.....Depends on the cost of malpractice insurance and housing where they practice. <BR/><BR/>It isn't just what they're paid, but what they specialize in. And the ghastly shortages of psychiatrists in some specialties that are risky and the worst paid (I believe). For example, one reads books on pediatric mental illness that talk about how to pick the best child psychiatrist or psychologist, but when the kid is actually psychotic, violent and suicidal you find that there is maybe one doctor in fifty miles brave enough to let them in their office, and they are in a clinic. That rations care and won't even let you pay retail to get the child more care, when they need it. In effect, we now have socialized medicine for severely disturbed kids and chronically mentally ill adults and it sucks. Not because of the practitioners but because of the rationing. <BR/><BR/>I don't understand what that says about our supposedly child loving society. Or our Judaeo Christian compassion for the sick and suffering.Retrieverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036341287285545932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-59109872892748230112009-01-07T18:34:00.000-08:002009-01-07T18:34:00.000-08:00No, $134,000 is poultry! I think psychiatrists de...No, $134,000 is poultry! I think psychiatrists deserve a much meatier sum than that. I mean, despite all the professional mental housekeeping you'd expect them to do in the interest of sanity, how can they not absorb and assimilate some of the crap they have to endure? --you'd have to be unhumanly bulletproof to have the stamina to be able to deflect everything.<BR/><BR/>How much is a saved life worth?<BR/><BR/>If a physician or psychiatrist has the foresight and skill to manifest positive life changes in a patient who would've otherwise rotted in some kind of misery, isn't that considered an invaluable service?<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, a physician who intentionally does the dirty, selling his/her soul for the price of a fine wine to rinse his/her cheap palate with, probably deserves @#$!-all...<BR/><BR/>Maybe, unethical psychiatrists begrudge the type of people they're forced to deal with daily, and so regard the bonus asides as just deserts....kind of like 'dirty money' given in exchange for cleaning up the 'filthier' elements of society.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-73008491321672096872009-01-07T18:00:00.000-08:002009-01-07T18:00:00.000-08:00Paltry, sheesh! Physicians have to spell correctl...Paltry, sheesh! Physicians have to spell correctly, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-271890422473914582009-01-07T17:56:00.000-08:002009-01-07T17:56:00.000-08:00Oh, goodness, not enough money. I'm not a physici...Oh, goodness, not enough money. I'm not a physician, but people have no idea of the work, the training, the cost and awesome demands of the job. $134,000 for a psychiatrist, is paultry compared with what a modern exec makes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-72790349449048663112009-01-07T17:43:00.000-08:002009-01-07T17:43:00.000-08:00I'm not sure that the size of the income matters a...I'm not sure that the size of the income matters as much as whether the professional violated professional ethics along the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com