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do you think we have too many doctors?

we absolutely have too many doctors, and among the existing pool of doctors we have too many specialists and not enough PCPs

when there are too many doctorsa and not enough patients that leads to physician-induced demand, often for services which are of dubious clinical benefit = higher health care costs = higher premiums = less money to spend on high priced upper NW DC houses :D

Originally posted by Celeste:
I do think we can have too many of both, yes…

I think we ALREADY have too many lawyers, but i dont think many lawyers (or decent ones) are having trouble finding work! meaning we dont have too many.

and as long as i sit in the ER for 7 or 8 hours waiting to be seen, we dont have enough doctors.

or at best, we dont have enough doctors in the right places. whatever……there can be more.

Originally posted by brennser:

do you think we have too many doctors?

we absolutely have too many doctors, and among the existing pool of doctors we have too many specialists and not enough PCPs

so when i sit in the ER all day long its cause there are too many doctors?

i guess you're going to say we have too many politicians next!!!

You do realize that there are doctors outside of emergency rooms, don't you?

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
so when i sit in the ER all day long its cause there are too many doctors?

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
You do realize that there are doctors outside of emergency rooms, don't you?

apparently they are ALL outside of the emergency rooms. i suppose you've never had an emergency have you?

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
so when i sit in the ER all day long its cause there are too many doctors?

no, it's because that pretty young resident is sick of you coming in every week to have those boils on your inner thigh lanced and she's hiding from you

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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
apparently they are ALL outside of the emergency rooms. i suppose you've never had an emergency have you?

My experience doesn't matter, it's just that you are a moron. You take one small sliver of the medical community and assume that what has held true for you personally in that small corner of the industry must be true for the entire industry.

What were you there for anyway? Were you having a heart attack or a hangnail? Was it a life-threatening illness? Were there more serious cases in front of you?

It burned when he peed.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
My experience doesn't matter, it's just that you are a moron.

i stopped reading your post after that. I think i have posted long enough on this board to not be called a moron like this.

until you have the respect to listen to someone else's opinion, i have nothing further to add, nor will i waste my time justifying my point to someone who will only try to prove me wrong or stupid for the point of doing so.

thanks a lot.

Originally posted by econo:
It burned when he peed.

i just watched that seinfeld episode last night where kramer and mickey work at a hospital acting out diseases and kramer keeps getting gonorreah (sp?) … classic …

I didn't realize Seinfeld had a skit on that.

Originally posted by econo:
I didn't realize Seinfeld had a skit on that.

it's the one where elaine finds out puddy is a christian-freak and jerry dates the girl with the "tractor story" … oh, and george walks out of the room whenever cracks a joke that goes over well …

I think we have too many stand-up comics.

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
it's the one where elaine finds out puddy is a christian-freak and jerry dates the girl with the "tractor story" … oh, and george walks out of the room whenever cracks a joke that goes over well … [/QB]

It's funny when Elaine and the preacher do the devil horn signs on their head when Puddy is told that he's going to hell for having pre marital sex.

Apparently you were in the ER trying to get your thin skin treated.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
My experience doesn't matter, it's just that you are a moron.

i stopped reading your post after that. I think i have posted long enough on this board to not be called a moron like this.

until you have the respect to listen to someone else's opinion, i have nothing further to add, nor will i waste my time justifying my point to someone who will only try to prove me wrong or stupid for the point of doing so.

thanks a lot.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Dark Horizons for the Real Estate Market

My question on the bubble bursting in DC is that, for quite some time, DC was undervalued via real estate compared to comparable cities (though Chicago was as well, and I believe still is compared to DC's real estate growth). I certainly believe there will be a slowdown or stagnation for a while, but I'm not so sure there will be a burst here in DC with a very steady employment scene and prices that now are comparable to L.A., still far under N.Y.C., etc. [PS, no, I'm not saying DC is comparable to NYC as a city…]

as i've said before, if there is a major terrorist attack (which is quite possible, if not probable) in this city, their could be panic with real estate prices … i'm not sure why people aren't taking this into account when they talk about the issue …

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
as i've said before, if there is a major terrorist attack (which is quite possible, if not probable) in this city, their could be panic with real estate prices … i'm not sure why people aren't taking this into account when they talk about the issue …

But there wasn't last time…are you thinking of something huge, focused on DC?

Originally posted by Bags:

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
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But there wasn't last time…are you thinking of something huge, focused on DC?

Maybe he's a member of the team planning the next one?

Originally posted by Bags:
My question on the bubble bursting in DC is that, for quite some time, DC was undervalued via real estate compared to comparable cities (though Chicago was as well, and I believe still is compared to DC's real estate growth). I certainly believe there will be a slowdown or stagnation for a while, but I'm not so sure there will be a burst here in DC with a very steady employment scene and prices that now are comparable to L.A., still far under N.Y.C., etc. [PS, no, I'm not saying DC is comparable to NYC as a city…]

The problem with that argument is that it assumes that prices should fundamentally be equal across cities. That's not the case.

The dangers to the real estate market are more related to the fact that prices seem detached from the fundamentals. That is, unless rents rise sharply or if the outsized capital appreciation continues, it is unlikely that one would make one's money back on a home purchased today.

Moreover, people are leveraged out the wazoo. The Wall Street Journal had an article a few weeks back noting that many people, in the wake of the dot-com bubble bursting, have shifted their savings from the stock market to real estate. Not coincidentally, it's many of the same people who lost money in stocks who are now making speculative real estate investments. Furthermore, people have been taking loads of equity out of their homes (in 2004, U.S. households borrowed $820bn in the mortgage market but only bought $540bn in homes). About a third of new mortgages (including refis) are short-term or interest-only packages.

Hence, the concern is that as rates rise and the economy cools off, people will be squeezed – they don't have any savings to protect them – and they will be forced to sell their homes to pay off their debts; and they will be selling into a poor market, since higher rates will dampen demand, and they will have to lower the price to attract buyers, yadda yadda yadda…setting off a deflationary debt liquidation cycle (in a worst case scenario) or simply meaning that prices will plateau (best case scenario).

There is little reason to believe a scenario in which real estate will continue to appreciate, since there is little room left for leverage and since the pool of renters continues to get smaller.