tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post6024063310184534229..comments2023-10-30T08:41:06.178-07:00Comments on Inside the Law School Scam: Tell or don't sellLawProfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05174586969709793419noreply@blogger.comBlogger180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-71196685564657437262012-02-13T15:16:17.132-08:002012-02-13T15:16:17.132-08:00Hi Friends,
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A. Disclosure wo...The commenter was 100% correct.<br /><br />A. Disclosure would not change the admission equation one little bit.<br />2. Whether law schools are lying (a moral problem) is not all that relevant to this discussion.<br />C. There is no duty for a law prof to gather potential career info so that he or she might properly advise students. <br /> a) They are already students of an advanced degree that should have done that "homework"<br /> b) That is not the law profs job, i.e. advising every possible question of a law student<br /> 3. As you said: a law prof's opinion on whether a student should stay in school is just that ... an opinion, which may or may not be based in fact.<br /><br />D. The inference that someone somewhere will be deposed as part of a lawsuit sometime, is a horrible reason to act in any particular way. Do the right thing or don't, who cares if there is liability (this is bad as doing things for "tax reasons" and usually ends just as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-59538522990915775782011-11-30T08:06:18.390-08:002011-11-30T08:06:18.390-08:00The anti-AMA person got owned by 10:33. Brutally o...The anti-AMA person got owned by 10:33. Brutally owned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-86191830066829951522011-11-30T06:02:58.332-08:002011-11-30T06:02:58.332-08:00On another topic, the article about the partnershi...On another topic, the article about the partnership between law schools and firms was not a part of a special issue directed at LLMs. It was a part of a special issue of The Financial Times called Innovative Law Schools 2011. There are a number of articles directed at different aspects of law schools in the UK and other countries. Some interesting stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-28610136948575487812011-11-30T05:30:40.195-08:002011-11-30T05:30:40.195-08:0010:24:
Don't put words in my mouth. I did no...10:24:<br /><br />Don't put words in my mouth. I did not critizize doc salaries. Yes, I envied them. And yes, many physicians are smarter than me---many people are smarter than me. So what? Good for them. I benefit from a society full of people smarter than I. However, my envy and lack of intellect does not justify your poor manners and ad hominen attacks on those who respectfully disagree with you. The lady or gentleman with whom I was speaking was giving valuable information and had observations worth hearing. You attacked him or her, personally. If you argued like that in court, at least down here (I know--you think we're all just a bunch of ignorant crackers) the judge would admonish you. <br /><br /> And what does my representing people injured by a physician breaching the standard of care and significantly harming them have to do with solutions to the law school crisis? Don't start in on me about frivolous malpractice suits. Look at TN and Ga malpractice statutes and see how hard it is to bring an action. Furthermore, these suits cost about 60 to 70k just to get to the mediation stage. Do you think I spend that on a patient's hurt feelings? To justify that outlay, I have to believe that a jury, in a very conservative state will value my client's injury at least at 500k---here, a very grievous injury.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659995537790248686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-57638853243726102872011-11-30T05:16:23.493-08:002011-11-30T05:16:23.493-08:00Yes, and despite the fact that a single payer syst...Yes, and despite the fact that a single payer system would provide administrative efficiencies, the AMA has opposed a single payer system. They say it is out of concern for patient choice, but the organization must must know what it would do to the salaries of doctors--which is where this conversation started. This is not all about greed. The cost of medical school is high, though other countries manage it well enough to give doctors training and provide them with a good standard of living.<br /> The US could use more doctors. Admiring the AMA for keeping the numbers lower than they should be, to maintain medicine as a high status profession, is not the way to go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-76960688564670765742011-11-30T04:01:33.183-08:002011-11-30T04:01:33.183-08:00I work in IP for an IT firm that does a lot of wor...I work in IP for an IT firm that does a lot of work with healthcare providers.<br /><br />Put simply, the biggest, and most rapidly increasing part of the cost of healthcare in the United States is in administration costs. McKinsey estimates that of difference between the predicted cost of healthcare in the US based on GDP figures and the actual cost, 85% is caused by the unjustifiably high administrative costs. <br /><br />This post and the links in it are a good primer on this topic:<br /><br />http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/why-does-us-health-care-cost-so-much-part-ii-indefensible-administrative-costs/<br /><br />Blaming pharma IP for this is barking up the wrong tree. Yes, pharma companies do engage in some very dodgy practices - see the AstraZeneca EC competition law case for an example of how what was essentially patent fraud inflicted great costs on society as a whole. However, this does not explain the overall difference in costs between the US and Europe, because many of the products patented in the US are also patented in European countries, and the behaviour of pharma companies in the EU and the US is essentially the same. <br /><br />Litigation costs are also a red herring. Although the number of cases per capita is much higher in the US, the lower pay-outs compared to e.g., the UK means that the average cost of litigation in the US is only a small component of the overall cost of healthcare, and does not explain the difference in costs between the US and other countries. See here:<br /><br />http://www.unc.edu/courses/2007fall/nurs/379/960/Module%208%20econ%20forces%20budget/anderson.pdf<br /><br />Basically, the high cost of the US healthcare system is explained largely by the inefficient way in which it is adminstered. Hard as it might be to accept, the US healthcare system is inefficent to an extent stunning compared even to bloated giants like the UK's NHS. Large-scale healthcare reform is the only realistic solution to this.Gilman Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06607416440240634159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-87986217625571428212011-11-30T03:24:19.257-08:002011-11-30T03:24:19.257-08:00I once looked into the possibility of pharmacy sch...I once looked into the possibility of pharmacy school. Pharmacy school requires a specific set of prerequisites that take about 2 years to accumulate as a normal undergraduate on a normal schedule. Its heavy on biology, chemistry, and organic chemistry, but also requires calculus, physics, and economics. A few of the required credits can come from the liberal arts.<br /><br />One great thing is that you do not need a bachelor's degree to apply to pharmacy school, all you need are the prerequisites. So, it is common for people to become pharmacists after 6 years of education, 2 at the undergraduate level and 4 in pharmacy school. Many universities with pharmacy schools have "pre-pharmacy" programs that help the students complete the prereqs required to attend their pharmacy school and I assume many students complete all 6 years at just one university.<br /><br />So its great for the students who are serious about pharmacy and it pretty much keeps out everybody who is not. When I looked into the program, I already had about half of the prereqs completed (when I got my BA years ago), but I didn't have a lot of the science. I would have to take night school for over a year in order to qualify to apply. I actually started doing this, and did it for a year, although my plans changed later when I finally and unexpectedly got a real lawyer's job. I took a total of 10 courses.<br /><br />This was a gigantic commitment. Organic chemistry is hard, you have to study, it takes a lot of time. The average person just won't do this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-65875023106551144852011-11-29T22:47:55.262-08:002011-11-29T22:47:55.262-08:00Health care costs obviously can mean the cost that...Health care costs obviously can mean the cost that people pay to go to the doctor, which is what I was referring to. Having lived here and abroad, the difference is astonishing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-40532414815067609032011-11-29T22:40:26.245-08:002011-11-29T22:40:26.245-08:00Yes, but not because of doctor salaries. The error...Yes, but not because of doctor salaries. The error you are making is that you think healthcare cost = physician's salary. I just showed you above that phsyician salaries make up only 6% of healthcare cost.<br /><br />At this point further discussion by you is either a sign that you are mentally handicapped or a troll. Either way you and that wallstreetpit.com person's moronic analysis were pwned. I'll leave you the same way the MCATs left you, defeated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-80702002477661904762011-11-29T22:37:11.212-08:002011-11-29T22:37:11.212-08:00Do American citizens pay more for visits to the do...Do American citizens pay more for visits to the doctor than do people in other countries?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-53268859992585435842011-11-29T22:34:30.612-08:002011-11-29T22:34:30.612-08:00Sure, whatever...Sure, whatever...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-10869606531937180482011-11-29T22:33:26.090-08:002011-11-29T22:33:26.090-08:00According to the BLS, there are about 650,000 doct...According to the BLS, there are about 650,000 doctors in the country earning an average of about $250,000 each. That's 162 billion in salaries paid to doctors.<br /><br />The total amount spent on healthcare last year was about $2.7 trillion.<br /><br />162 billion divided by 2.7 trillion = 6%. <br /><br />Still think it's doctor salaries driving the cost of healthcare?<br /><br />FYI that's how you do analysis. You might want to send that to the wallstreetpit.com moron.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-9086581599795126972011-11-29T22:33:07.773-08:002011-11-29T22:33:07.773-08:00Sure,whatever...Sure,whatever...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-59582276196816023152011-11-29T22:25:35.163-08:002011-11-29T22:25:35.163-08:00I'm not an unemployed lawyer, obviously. Next ...I'm not an unemployed lawyer, obviously. Next time, say thank you when someone educates you on a topic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-56733253525972087362011-11-29T22:24:57.280-08:002011-11-29T22:24:57.280-08:00And it is not a matter of jealousy at all to say t...And it is not a matter of jealousy at all to say that the salaries of doctors in the US are artificially high with no better outcomes than in other countries. Cancer treatment may be better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-19855752745692708582011-11-29T22:24:02.560-08:002011-11-29T22:24:02.560-08:00You do deserve it, because a wrong thought leads t...You do deserve it, because a wrong thought leads to wrong action, which leads to a dysfunctional world.<br /><br />Aren't you a medical malpractice lawyer tdennis? Of all the people to criticize doctor's salaries.<br /><br />There are hard working pediatricians with 30 years of experience making a measily $100k salary. Once you investigate the data, read the ABC News story linked above and read the more detailed studies, you will never again blame doctor salaries for the cost of medical care.<br /><br />You'll blame the lawyers - the intellectual property lawyers that allow medical companies to make incredible profits off of their new inventions, and the medmal lawyers who force doctors to use the inventions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-16207026520578079722011-11-29T22:20:50.056-08:002011-11-29T22:20:50.056-08:00Go away 10:12. The person at 10:10 did not deserv...Go away 10:12. The person at 10:10 did not deserve your snarky disdain. I don't care if you think you have the right to express yourself anyway you want. I don't care if you think I'm trying to stifle 'free expression'. I don' t care how much pride you take in your obnoxiousness. You are uncivilized. If you are an unemployed lawyer, I can see why. If you aren't, you should be.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659995537790248686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-38480455679039088522011-11-29T22:18:49.350-08:002011-11-29T22:18:49.350-08:00"I promise you, you do not know what you are ..."I promise you, you do not know what you are talking about...."<br /><br />Start researching FACTS. For example, read this: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/health-care-costs-biggest-drivers/story?id=10044091&page=1<br /><br />If you want more, dig up the detailed studies. <br /><br />A bright person collects complete data and then makes a decision. You made a decision based on some jealous person's blog post on wallstreetpit.com. It's things like this that prevented you from getting into medical school. Such errors in reasoning and analysis can kill people when made by a doctor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-38442640971317673732011-11-29T22:16:04.465-08:002011-11-29T22:16:04.465-08:00The biggest driver of healthcare costs is new drug...The biggest driver of healthcare costs is new drugs, new technologies and new procedures. It's essentially medical inventions that are the problem.<br /><br />Why do these new things have to be used once discovered? Because if you don't use them some lawyer will sue you. It's called defensive medicine. A bunch of expensive and cutting edge tests make no sense, except in front of a jury as some scumbag attorney is grilling you.<br /><br />Lawyers are a far bigger driver of healthcare cost than medical salaries, by orders of magnitude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-68180083467940715182011-11-29T22:15:20.296-08:002011-11-29T22:15:20.296-08:00I promise you, you do not know what you are talkin...I promise you, you do not know what you are talking about....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-48518509315073141822011-11-29T22:12:14.612-08:002011-11-29T22:12:14.612-08:00That's why I told you to investigate the perce...That's why I told you to investigate the percentage of the total healthcare cost that goes to pay doctor salaries. It's a small percentage, and thus you are wrong when you say "the main problem is the artificial shortage of doctors."<br /><br />On a deeper level, control your jealousy of people who did better than you. You could have gone to medical school too if you had what it takes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-59170121479507241222011-11-29T22:10:17.871-08:002011-11-29T22:10:17.871-08:00That is why I said HELP raise costs. The main prob...That is why I said HELP raise costs. The main problem is the artificial shortage of doctors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164886390834386622.post-85537981998617589392011-11-29T22:06:29.796-08:002011-11-29T22:06:29.796-08:00Your analysis is missing a key piece of data - how...Your analysis is missing a key piece of data - how much health care revenue goes to pay doctor salaries? It's actually a tiny percentage. The biggest chunk of healthcare cost goes to drug companies, medical products manufacturers, health care "executives and managers" (meaning white collar types who don't practice medicine), health care company shareholders, and yes lawyers.<br /><br />Try to discipline yourself to think things through before you jump to erroneous conclusions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com