Lets be honest. This post has really gone off base. It started as a post of a Dr joke which is at least 5 years old. Not so funny any more, but who cares. There are physicians like myself who hunt, own guns, and are as " real American' as anybody else on this forum- 15 years active duty Army and 20 years in the reserve. I haven't worked a 40 hour work week in 35 years. More like 60 and during residency more like 160. I spent 15 years after High School in training to do what I do. Those years were spent earning less per hour than the average reader of this forum makes. I work my butt off everyday hoping to save a few folks from dieing prematurley from a disease I hope I can prevent and to relieve those suffering from current conditions that I can treat.
To link every physician or any other catagory of worker in the US to a mold based on your personal experience is wrong. Personally, I beleieve our medical care systen is so messed up because free enterprise allows them to bill for what the patient wants, not what they need.
However, I am open to any and all "Doctor jokes" and hope to hear them all
Well said, Dr. Bob. My favorite duck hunting partner is also my primary physician, Dr. Domineco. His grandfather was a master engraver for Beretta, in Gardone Val Trompia, Italy and when Mussolini and Hitler formed their "Pact of Steel" he left for America and became a US citizen, worked as a tool maker in a defense plant during WW11- I have seen and shot several of his Beretta handguns and shotguns- My friend also has been decorated by the USN Blue Angels (He flies a Beechcraft however) and is an avid homing pigeon racer. He knows of my love of fine guns, also that I shoot barn (feral) pigeons in the off hunting season- and is open minded. His daughter is attending Julliard, studying piano, and we both love classic music as well as hunting. A very open minded and well-rounded man, IMO. My cardiologist, Dr. Tjender, is from India- speaks 6 languages fluently and goes out of his way to make all his patients feel at ease, again, IMO. My Dentist, Dr. Mallick, shoots a Beretta 28 gauge, and asked me to help him find and then sight in a BA scoped rifle for his MT. elk hunt. Super great guy. Doctors hold human life and trust of their patients in their hands, as you said, don't work a straight 40 hour week, and sure- there are Doctor jokes, just like their are lawyer and plumber jokes- No big deal!!
