Originally Posted by teratos

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