re: I've decided that calling physicians "doctor" is quite silly...

We used to go through Cabrini way before I went through. I’m sure we trained at the same program. Good to know.

I have no problem referring to physicians as "doctor" in a professional setting, I do it often (I work in healthcare), but I think it's absurd when people refer to physicians as "doctor" in a casual setting. I think it's more of the boomer generation that does that, but it's just odd.

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Well, when you are placing your orders it should come up as a contraindication, shouldn't it?

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Not if you're asking your PCP for medicine A, but your cardiologist/endocrinologist/etc. prescribed medicine B. That's where your pharmacist comes into play.

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Sure, but those kinds of things can be done and directly provided by the payer. I'm not suggesting anything willy nilly.

In home wellness visits performed and provided by payers, labs ordered by payers and performed at network laboratories where results are directly sent to clinical care teams employed by payers, PA's on antihypertensives where results from in home visits and lab results are reviewed along with other medication interaction, etc.

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Can you clarify what you mean by "the payer"?

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So is med school until you get to residency.

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Wrong.

Wife (no pics) and I got married when she was in med school. 1st two years are in an academic setting, but most of the last two years were taken up by rotations, which is learning in clinical settings and not in a classroom one. She had rotations (usually each about a month long) at Charity, Tulane, LSUMC, Ochsner, and two out of town in locations she was considering for internship/residency once she got her MD degree: Emory in Atlanta and USF in Tampa. And these were not 9-5 M-F situations; at a lot of those she had to work night shifts, weekend days and such (obstetrics rotation was one).

Ca and Ga

My attitude? An MD and I should go stock shelves at Walmart? You got me. Such a brilliant insight….

We need to see your vita to see if you are worthy of the Title "Dumb arse."

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Plus a lot of the doctors you find in cities like Monroe LA, Alexandria, Lake Charles, Laffy, Shreveport.. some are Caribbean med school grads. Those schools take anyone with a pulse. They weren't good enough to get into US med schools. Took carribean route where like 50% fail out. The other 50% come back to the US and can't get jobs in Dallas, NY, Miami, Boston due to desirability. They almost end up in small towns like Monroe, Alexandria, Lake Charles, and practice family medicine. No caribbean med school grad has ever become a US surgeon. Theyre way to picky for that.

Anyways, since most this board is in Louisiana. It's highly likely your doctor got a 2.4 GPA in biology from LSU, partied way too hard, couldn't make med school, did the Caribbean route, and is now in Family Medicine in your small Louisiana town. Not what you envision a doctor to be.

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Well, they do call it "Practicing Medicine", which should be a giveaway about what they are good at. By the way, I call them Dr. In fact, my Cardiologist is Dr. Chuck. The guy who installed my carbon fiber heart valve had my heart in his hand, after cutting it open and I survived, so he deserves to be called Dr.

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Any law school worth a shite also has students in legal clinics, moot court, clerkships, etc, by third year.

Not to mention by summer after first year you are clerking for real law firms.

Representing real clients in real court, drafting memoranda that partners will rely on, researching opinions for real judges, etc. (under supervision, just like a resident).

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We really have people trying to equate law school to med school?