Is there one tiny speck of moral good in studying medicine?

[Boojatta]

I mean you have to actually work as a doctor and refuse to accept money for your medical work before you can be said to be doing something morally praiseworthy, right?

[GreenStormCloud]

1. Do you do your job for free?

[MichaelHarris]

2. my wife

sees patients for free and pay.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. There's a lot of moral good in studying medicine.

There are many outstanding doctors who care enormously about their patients and who do their darndest to take good care of them...

Money is necessary to live.

But you need a soul to be a good doctor.

These are not mutually exclusive.

[AngryAmish]

19. What about medical expert systems?

Kinda snarky but I think soul/bedside manner is overrated in doctors. Most of the time expert systems do better than doctors.

[Xipe Totec]

4. No. The moral good comes when you practice it, not study it.

But seriously...

By your moral gage can any profession be said to contain one tiny spec of moral good?

Computer Science? Law? Physics?

Even the priesthood accepts money for their work. Are they morally unworthy? If so, who's left?

[Boojatta]

5. Kick

[Boojatta]

6. Kick

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. its a career. unless the doctor, is donating services for free, i dont think s/he is being more

moral than the rest of us

also, unless he is with holding services deliberately in a way a non-doctor wouldnt he/she wouldnt be immoral either

(for instance, if someone got run down, i would run to help them. at that point if a doctor refuses because person doesnt have money or whatever, that would be immoral)

going to med school in an off itself doesnt make one moral or immoral

[blondeatlast]

8. FFS. Of course there is.

Geez.

[beam me up scottie]

10. Someone snuck out of R/T...

damn newbies keep forgetting to lock the door behind them.

[cali]

9. this may well qualify for the most idiotic post of the day, but fear not

it may be eclipsed. The day is still young.

[blondeatlast]

12. Maybe you haven't seen the White House basketball court one.

So far, I'd say this one and that one are neck and neck, but as you say, it's still early.

[Boojatta]

14. The Original Post of this thread wasn't posted today.

As a matter of fact, this post was posted today.

[blondeatlast]

15. Why start anoother--toatally without context--thread about it?

:eyes:

[Boojatta]

18. You are replying to a post in this thread about another post in this thread.

O8)

[blondeatlast]

16. Oopsie-dupesie. nt

[Statistical]

11. WTF?

Why should a Doctor rack up 1/4 million in student loan debt and then work for free?

[Boojatta]

17. Some people are well-suited to higher education...

and there are only so many options, especially when all the seats for future classes at terrorist training academies have already been taken by students who have already paid tuition.

[liberal_at_heart]

13. it depends

It usually all depends on the motivation. If a doctor is motivated to doing good then they will find ways of doing good. Like not peddling certain prescriptions just because they get a good deal on them from a pharm sales person. Like not overbooking patients and only spending 15 minutes with each patient just so they can make more money. Like volunteering for free down at a free clinic every once in a while. I think the problem comes when doctors are motivated by the wrong things like wanting a $150,000 car or a $3 million home. I do believe that doctors do face a problem with the insurance companies charging them too much for malpractice insurance. I don't think the answer to that is to cap how much someone can win in a malpractice lawsuit. I think just like everybody else in the country right now the insurance companies are gouging doctors and taking on insurance companies that charge too much is something we as an entire country have to do.

[BoneDaddy]

20. of course there is

contrary to many on du, cops, docs, priests,the pharmaceutical companies and those who work for them, the rich, white folks and many other groups portrayed as all bad, actually are good as well. ooooo am I speaking heresy?

[Boojatta]

21. Are you speaking heresy? That's what I want to know. e.o.m.

[BoneDaddy]

22. Nah

not at all.

[Boojatta]

23. Kick