re: Interesting Article About SSRI's. HHS Director Kennedy vs Congress

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but pain management specialists. One of them was double board certified in both neurology and pain management, so I don't think he was an idiot.

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There it is. So you were/are underestimating his knowledge. No biggie. Again that is very common. Similar to your comments re: psychiatrists which is the only real tie to the OP in all of this.

Working with physical therapists in the context of functional restoration/rehabilitation is a component of pain fellowships, along with exposure to OT, psychology, and behavioral medicine. So your doc would have had that obligatory exposure, whether or not he let on.

FWIW, your PM&R MD affordability comments didn't make sense initially, as the vast majority of pain docs are PM&R or Anesthesiologists. In compensation terms, PM&R's generally pull about 2/3rds what their Anesthesiology brethren do. Hence, my query regarding the "why not" former.

But Neurology based docs do usually lag both in income terms. Neuro-Pain docs were/are extremely uncommon (uncommon .. as in basically nonexistent TTBOMK) in the communities I've associated with. But N-P jibes with your observations re: affordability and limited procedures, and makes more sense.

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the medical lobby in Alabama is very strong and they keep salaries for physicians very high ... Alabama had the second highest average physician salary in the country behind only California.

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Yikes!

First, again just FYI, the "medical lobby" has little to nothing to do with MD salaries. Neither in Alabama, nor any state. There might be scenarios in which there was/is an effect on income. Second, Alabama has never ranked that highly re: MD incomes. It might be better in PPP terms, but here is an example:

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There it is. So you were/are underestimating his knowledge.

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What a fricking bulbous headed, blue veined, pulsing prick you are being.

No, I didn't underestimate anything. You weren't there, you don't know, and you didn't answer the question, which means that you don't want to admit that you don't know what the frick you're talking about.

What are you, a GP? Dermatologist? Just how unrelated is your speciality to what you're acting like you have inside knowledge about?

We both know why you didn't answer the question. Because your only qualification to act like you know what a neurologist/pain management specialist does or doesn't know about PT is that you may have had some PT once or twice, probably on your neck, from carrying around that enormous dick head of yours.

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So your doc would have had that obligatory exposure, whether or not he let on.

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Great, he probably had to take a nutrition class or two as well. Tell me how much he knew about nutrition (less than nothing is the answer).

And yes, the medical lobby does impact salaries, due to simple economics. When mid-levels are restricted from doing things that they can do in virtually every other state, you can't save the money of employing a mid-level...you have to hire a full MD.

When everyone has to hire a full MD, it's a buyer's market because it exacerbates a shortage that was already there. What happens when demand exceeds supply?

You tell me, Amazing Kreskin.

Now, I don't know if the information I saw on the matter was adjusted and compared for cost of living (my guess), or if it was just old data (despite your claim, nothing you posted proves anything about the market 6 or 8 or 10 years ago...I was in that game for 18 years), or both, but I know how simple economics works and very probably unlike you, I was actually on the hiring end of the equation. In Alabama.

Let's find out. After you answer the original question about your speciality, answer these two, please: Have you ever employed/hired an MD at all? If so, was it in Alabama?

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Great, he probably had to take a nutrition class or two as well.

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Did he? Really? No?
BUT, aside from a nutrition class or two, HE DID HAVE TO LEARN ABOUT PT!

I don't get your obstinance here.

You act like I'm suggesting the dude could have done your job.
I'm not.

But to suggest he'd not have known when to refer a Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Case to PT, or what to expect of decompressive physical therapy, is ... silly .... to be kind.

I do not get your beef in a Psychiatric drug thread.

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I know how simple economics works and very probably unlike you, I was actually on the hiring end of the equation. In Alabama.

Let's find out. After you answer the original question about your speciality, answer these two, please: Have you ever employed/hired an MD at all? If so, was it in Alabama?

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I've been owner/partner in several medical corporations.