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Originally Posted by GeorgeMD2B
Money isn't everything and it is not the only thing either. All the money in the world could not bring back my beloved Marie. She was the woman I once planned to marry, and she was killed in a car wreck a year before I started medical school. All the money in the world won't bring her back to Earth.
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But it's what pays by mortgage and feeds my kids. I'm not a rich doctor. I am on a fairly tight budget. After school loans, mortgage, car payments, groceries, gas, retirement etc. There isn't much left. I have to plan for my own retirement, nobody gives me a pension. Doctors have to live, too. I don't live in a big house, or buy expensive things.
I do the best job I can do for my patients, and when people can't afford it, I don't charge them at all. At the end of the day, I don't think it is unreasonable to ask to be paid for the job I do.
I'm sorry for your loss. Even though it doesn't apply to the topic at hand. G