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Doc's must be a bunch of sissies to get upset over this little bit of teasing. The only ones I see quitting around here are the ones who're about to turn 40 and have already accumulated $10,000,000 in their retirement accounts.

Try putting up with lawyer jokes! They usually involve skid marks or something...Geo

I would rather hunt with a fellow Dr. than a Vice President.

Speaking for the legal profession in general, if I were hunting in the presence of THAT Vice President, I'd kind of like to have a Dr. around too...Geo

doubble, I thought it was so funny that it left me in stitches...

tim

Actually, your next doctor will not be American because the sad fact is an Indian doctor will work for much less. Just like brick laying or machining, the doctoring trade ain't what it used to be.

I don't feel especially sorry for the American doctor or the American patient. Why? Every American doctor and every American patient buys plenty of Chinese and Indian made crap every day - if we can export our jobs I don't see why we shouldn't import our doctors.

Drew,
With all due respect, what difference should it make to my Chicago born/raised/trained family MD if I keep guns in my home? And why can't he think for himself instead of putting forth questions from the AMA, an organization that makes no bones about the fact that they don't like even your guns?
He directed this question to my wife (what the hell would she know about what guns are kept in the home?) at which point I set him straight. If there was any BS in the conversation, it came from him, as I asked him point blank what he knew about guns and his reply was he knew they are dangerous.
The fact the conversation took place during a clinic visit instigated by his office to inform us they had screwed up the storage requirements of the vaccinations they had administered to my infant son, and needed to re-vaccinate him, was the icing on the cake. I can't tell you how thrilled I was to have more thimerosal coursing the lads veins, compliments of his clinic. The quality of my "providers' has been slipping for a number of years, additionally, many of them seem to have become no more than salesman for the phamaceuticals, with little interest in spending more than 5 minutes per visit with us, always, ALWAYS suggesting a perscription of some sort instead of trying to figure out what might be the actual cause of what is ailing us. This particular clown overslept the night my son was being delivered, but managed to get into the room in time to take over for the nurse on duty, just in time to see the boys knees being born.
I should have asked for a discount, and given it to her. Actually, I should have knocked him on his ass. I was beyond furious on what could have been the happiest day of my life.
I stay as far from the doctor as I can, and will probably rue that fact some day, but the truth simply is, I don't know a good one. I wish I did.
Yes, I'm looking for a new one, but my wife appreciates the fact he can utter some Spanish. I've had it with this clinic, the Doctors who populate it, and the whole medical profession in general.

I'm not alone, it would seem.





Best,
Ted

Lets be honest. This post has really gone off base. It started as a post of a Dr joke which is at least 5 years old. Not so funny any more, but who cares. There are physicians like myself who hunt, own guns, and are as " real American' as anybody else on this forum- 15 years active duty Army and 20 years in the reserve. I haven't worked a 40 hour work week in 35 years. More like 60 and during residency more like 160. I spent 15 years after High School in training to do what I do. Those years were spent earning less per hour than the average reader of this forum makes. I work my butt off everyday hoping to save a few folks from dieing prematurley from a disease I hope I can prevent and to relieve those suffering from current conditions that I can treat.
To link every physician or any other catagory of worker in the US to a mold based on your personal experience is wrong. Personally, I beleieve our medical care systen is so messed up because free enterprise allows them to bill for what the patient wants, not what they need.
However, I am open to any and all "Doctor jokes" and hope to hear them all

Rash generalizations seem to be causing a big stir here. The sad fact is, the medical profession is really no different than any other profession in that it is populated with a wide range of people of different skills and ability.

My last family doctor (internist) was as competent as any I've met and was a hunter and shooter as well. Sadly, he retired and my current doctor seems to under-diagnose and over-prescribe and would keep me coming back for eternity if I did not just cancel appointments after I am well. He seems to have to refer me to a specialist for everything no matter how simple, but his charges are the same whether he can fix me or not. Of course, I am shopping for a new family physician.

I have seen this same sort of thing in my own profession (electrician) and every other profession I can think of. We all know that some electricians are incompetent, some teachers can't teach, and some auto mechanics screw up more than they fix. Some can do more serious and lasting damage than others.

All, whether Doctor, Lawyer, Electrician, Mechanic, Teacher, etc. expect payment for their services and time, and this can be vexing when the services rendered are sub-standard. It is just as vexing when the bad apples make the good ones look bad too.

I think the information that initiated this thread will likely continue to surface so long as the AMA continues to villify inanimate objects that are misused by criminals and nut cases. It's sad that good, competent, hunting-shooting-gun owning Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, and Policeman get dragged into these frays when they are deemed associated with National organizations that are anti-Second Amendment.

I blame it all on the politicians who aren't bright enough to sort it out.

This is a good place to encourage membership in the NRA as our most effective means of countering all of the various anti-gun, anti-hunting groups.

Dr. Bob, I am trying like hell to think of a good Doctor joke, but am drawing a blank just now.

I'll tell you one:

"A man comes to the doctor with a prostate problem. He asks the doctor that, when he does his prostate exam to stick two fingers in instead of one. When the puzzled doctor asks why, the patient answered candidly:
I want a second opinion!"

Meant to be a bit of humor, but if it put yer panties in a wad...that's your issue, with all respect of course...