One or Two Snakes

[xoxoxoBruce]

You might take notice which your health care providers use.

[orthodoc]

[Happy Monkey]

Details

[cellarolson]

hehe...clever

[xoxoxoBruce]

In a survey of 242 healthcare logos (reported in his 1992 book The Golden Wand of Medicine), Walter Friedlander found that 62 percent of professional associations used the rod of Asclepius, while 76 percent of commercial organizations used the caduceus.

link

[sexobon]

Don't do it for money. Do it for the sheer
pleasure of taking things apart and putting
them back together again.

[orthodoc]

Or for the pleasure of keeping things together in the first place.

But do it for the sheer pleasure.

[xoxoxoBruce]

In the doctoring business, there's doctoring, then there's the business.
Sometimes the business will screw the people they use, as often as the customers.

The music business has a similar problem.

[orthodoc]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Sometimes the business will screw the people they use, as often as the customers.

This.

At this point, my husband is thrilled at the idea of going to underserviced countries with a team from one university or another, and providing care to people who don't otherwise have it. He has always felt obligated to stay home, stay safe, and keep earning money, because his first priority was to provide for his family and not do risky things that might compromise that. Now he feels like he can do the things that we all went into medicine for, in the beginning.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

At this point, my husband is thrilled at the idea of going to underserviced countries with a team from one university or another, and providing care to people who don't otherwise have it. He has always felt obligated to stay home, stay safe, and keep earning money, because his first priority was to provide for his family and not do risky things that might compromise that. Now he feels like he can do the things that we all went into medicine for, in the beginning.

It would be great if that worked out for him. It seems like it would be exciting to have that freedom again. To only be responsible for yourselves.

[sexobon]

@xoB,

So you're saying that both professions have a reputation for giving people the business.

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, in both cases I'm separating the profession from the business. You know, those evil MBA types we've been warned about.

[orthodoc]

Doctors are notoriously terrible businesspeople. It's not what we trained to do; the business-oriented among us are the minority. These days, businesses hire doctors and use them up, throw them out, and look for fresh meat. I'd say business tends to give people (patients) the business.

God knows my experience working under a non-physician 'manager' was worse than the zombie apocalypse.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

[____________] are notoriously terrible businesspeople. It's not what we trained to do; the business-oriented among us are the minority. These days, businesses hire [____________] and use them up, throw them out, and look for fresh meat. I'd say business tends to give people (patients) the business.

IT specialists, musicians, cooks, teachers, athletes, etc, etc, etc. I've often been asked why I don't hang out my own shingle and freelance as an IT mercenary. Your quote is why. I know my stuff, and I know my stuff is not Business Administration. I could be/have been, perhaps, I never studied it. But I have tried working for myself many times over the years from being my own "boss" as a paperboy, buying my papers wholesale from my distributor and selling them to my customers at a profit, to moonlighting as a computer expert, and other jobs in between. I'm a competent computerer, but I suck at running a business. I don't think your observation is valid only for doctors.

Originally Posted by orthodoc

God knows my experience working under a non-physician 'manager' was worse than the zombie apocalypse.

Likewise, I've had experience working for managers that didn't really have a clue about what the computer could deliver, but that often didn't stop them from asking. Combining that ignorance with time and money restrictions made for some epic fantasies about what could and couldn't happen.

[orthodoc]

And .... I want to know how you guys post without your little green light being on, without showing that you're logged in. I've looked at the profile options and it's not there. So dish, guys.