Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
That\u2019s two stories [recently] about doctors who see themselves as victims.<\/p>\n
Do they realize they\u2019re one percenters who have nothing to bitch about?\u00a0 Why aren\u2019t they ashamed to be complaining?<\/p>\n
They know they\u2019re on the top rung of intelligence, we all do.\u00a0 We know they have as much perseverance as any Marine \u2013 they made it through college, medical school, internship and residency.\u00a0 They have enormous student loans but they also get paid a great deal of money (hard to get accurate figures but think about it, would you choose to practice a hugely in-demand trade in Worlds-End Minnesota for less than $200,000 a year?)<\/p>\n
We know doctors are at the very top of the heap in every medical clinic; anything they say, goes.\u00a0 We know they are one of the very few professions that still have any respect from the general public.<\/p>\n
And yet these two think they are victims.\u00a0 Persecuted.\u00a0 Unloved.\u00a0 Ground under the iron heel of injustice.\u00a0 Suffering at the hands of The Man.\u00a0 Precious snowflakes, unique but ever so delicate.<\/p>\n
Makes me want to vomit.\u00a0 Maybe something I ate doesn\u2019t agree with me?\u00a0 What do you think, doctor?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: That\u2019s two stories [recently] about doctors who see themselves as victims. Do they realize they\u2019re one percenters who have nothing to bitch about?\u00a0 Why aren\u2019t they ashamed to be complaining? They know they\u2019re on the top rung of intelligence, we all do.\u00a0 We know they have as much perseverance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-great-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63778,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63750\/revisions\/63778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}