You do realize that a part of that $80K needs to go into 401K for retirement and don't forget that for the last 7 to 12 years of training that the physician did not earn enough money to put into their retirement account while still accumulating debt. From my own perspective, I now have > $300K in debt that needs to be paid off and I have not a single piece of wealth to show for it. I don't have a car, home, retirement account, stocks / bond, or anything that I can hang my hat onto if the proverbial shit hits the fan. It's folks like you that don't understand the amount of time that we put into medicine, lose out on opportunities during training, and come out the other end with significant debt load. You despise us for the incomes we make but fail to gauge the above.

As a physician working with other physicians daily, I don't perceive us as being unscrupulous. We didn't go into this career for the money or accolades but to help people but that doesn't make us immune from daily life including requiring payments to make a living (have you noticed how much our loans are in the US? That we don't effectively earn a living until after 4 years of medical school and 3+ years of residency.). Please don't equate big pharma and the small minority of unscrupulous physicians with the rest of us as it does the rest of us a disservice.

Here's a list of Ubuntu hardware partners including Dell and Asus and their products. I'm not sure why you're blaming Canonical when the vendors are responsible for putting the hardware out.

I'm a doctor who is involved with the hospital's IT and EMR. The cost of switching over to electronic records is an already expensive proposition at the beginning and where the vendors get you is for maintaining the EMR on a yearly basis. Yes, it is minimal labor and not many pages but it is NOT minimal cost. Neither the private insurance nor medicare/medicaid reimburse the doctor for his or her use of the EMR and the patient is saddled with the cost.

I think that aurispector is suggesting the institution of health courts. The idea is that you have judges specially trained in health care issues who then retain objective outside experts to provide feedback and allow the judge to make a decision based on their findings. It's a lot more fair in getting money to more people injured from medical mistakes than the current system where the "jackpot" helps the lawyers than the patients.

What you might call a dictatorship I call a stabilization and modernization of Iran in face of growing Islamic and Communist groups working against the Shah and his policies. There are two sides to every story and it seems that you have clung onto one point of view and readily dismiss the positives outcomes that the Shah brought to Iran.

If I had to choose between a Shah run Iran vs that of an Islamic Republic, I would choose the Shah.

As a medical student, we are taught chemistry and biochemistry (not so much physics) including chemical kinetics in both our undergraduate training and in medical school. Your doctor either forgot the basics since he hasn't put them to use or is a dolt.

As one of the other posters mentioned, we get sporadic lectures on statistics and often it is in 60 minutes or less. Unfortunately, there are more important things that we need to concentrate on and stats just falls on the backburner of "things to do".

Nonetheless, statistics is useful to glean important information from medical journal articles and justifying whether a particular study is correct or incorrect in its assumptions and conclusions and by association how you can better treat and manage patients.