My point is, what else would you do for money?
Ray,
Money is a means to an end.
While the idea of becoming an "honorable" physician that works for the sole purpose of healing the sick and bettering mankind would have been great in a fairy tale ending kind of way, I realized early on that physicians are sadly but puppets catering to the agenda of the larger pharmaceutical companies.
Pharm companies do the majority of the research work that goes into developing new drugs that cater to their needs. They spearhead these studies by paying off a few physicians that will eagerly place their name on an IRB study (in order to give it a little credibility by way of credentials) alongside a few actual scientists. They then release a drug that rarely ever cures a disease, but instead masks the common and bothersome symptoms that the disease sparks on its own. They market these drugs, push it onto patients by way of your basic doctor visits (You go in for a physical, your doctor magically connects your random symptoms to the probability of you having something possibly malignant, BUT that can be reversed if you try this new drug. Bingo, there goes your sample and their also goes the doctor's monthly kickback from the pharmaceutical. Tada!) In turn, they just potentially earned a lifelong addict to a useless drug. The doctor's purpose in all of this? He was just the tool used in between the exchange, a fancy, white-labcoat wearing, eloquent individual who you should trust due to societal stereotypes deeply implanted from youth.
The body has an incredible way of healing itself, don't forget that.
My entire point being that over time you realize that what is important is how you decide to live out your life. I don't want to be a perpetual slave to the money that will meet a sad end. Instead, I am happy in knowing that doing what I do for a living provides me the pleasures I've always wanted to indulge in and will allow for an early retirement.
So instead of practicing medicine, I help to invest in the companies that come up with *cures* to diseases, companies that then, in turn, keep your doctors employed and your modern day patients "healthy" and "happy".
That's what I would do for money..
"
1"
