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[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I work with docs in my practice every day and almost all of them profess great love for it. Of course, most of my docs are at academic medical centers, they're very smart, and they went into it as much to do good as to do well. In my own family, the docs who are less happy are inevitably the money grubbers, but they'll never be satisfied (in any profession, really).

You know, it is pretty easy to get data on lawyer and doctor incomes and if you looked you'd find out that you are way off on across the professional averages. The average physician makes north of $200K, while the average attorney is around $150K. Obviously, in both groups, it's possible to identify a subgroup that would scoff at that figure.

Same, but I'm also in academic medical centers. Some practice areas are stronger than others, and I've seen a lot of movement toward telemedicine. We haven't had too many departures, but we're a really good gig.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Same, but I'm also in academic medical centers. Some practice areas are stronger than others, and I've seen a lot of movement toward telemedicine. We haven't had too many departures, but we're a really good gig.

I love telemedicine. Soooo much can be done by zoom, about half my appointments are now zooms. I think a lot of docs really like it, too.

[Pretty Little Flower]

The enthusiastic crowd reaction to Gladys Knight & the Pips got me thinking about other notably enthusiastic crowds, and one of the best is on Cannonball Adderly’s album “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Live at ‘The Club’.” The entire album is great, and solos on the track “Sticks” are so intense and breathtaking, and the crowd is so electrified that you can almost see them standing, clapping, shouting. But for the SOTD, I’m going to go with the more popular, more laid back title track, “Mercy. Mercy. Mercy.” Written by Josef Zawinul, the cunning Austrian keyboardist who later featured prominently on Miles’s “Bitches Brew” and later founded Weather Report, it has a groove that cannot be denied. Cannonball Adderly’s introductions to songs on live albums are great, but this is one of the best:

“You know, sometimes we're not prepared for adversity.
When it happens sometimes, we're caught short.
We don't know exactly how to handle it when it comes up.
Sometimes, we don't know just what to do when adversity takes over.
And I have advice for all of us, I got it from my pianist Joe Zawinul who wrote this tune.
And it sounds like what you're supposed to say when you have that kind of problem.
It's called mercy, mercy, mercy.”

Preach!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mYN0Tkoik

True story:

Live at “The Club” was not really a “live” album and was not recorded at “The Club.” The Club was a new club in Chicago owned by a friend of Cannonball Adderly, and Adderly wanted to give him some free publicity. But, I learned many years after first purchasing the album, after countless listens imagining how wild the atmosphere in The Club must have been that night, that the entire album was actually recorded in a sound studio in LA, with a bunch of Adderly’s friends and music industry folks who had been bribed to attend with an open bar in order to give it a live recording feel. When I first learned this, I was disappointed for about two seconds, feeling like this masterpiece of a live album was somehow inauthentic. But then I thought about how I would feel if I had been invited to watch Cannonball Adderly record one of the best albums of his storied career, and I was given free booze on top of it all. Well, god damn, I’d be going nuts too, and there would be nothing contrived about it.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

The enthusiastic crowd reaction to Gladys Knight & the Pips got me thinking about other notably enthusiastic crowds, and one of the best is on Cannonball Adderly’s album “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Live at ‘The Club’.” The entire album is great, and solos on the track “Sticks” are so intense and breathtaking, and the crowd is so electrified that you can almost see them standing, clapping, shouting. But for the SOTD, I’m going to go with the more popular, more laid back title track, “Mercy. Mercy. Mercy.” Written by Josef Zawinul, the cunning Austrian keyboardist who later featured prominently on Miles’s “Bitches Brew” and later founded Weather Report, it has a groove that cannot be denied. Cannonball Adderly’s introductions to songs on live albums are great, but this is one of the best:

“You know, sometimes we're not prepared for adversity.
When it happens sometimes, we're caught short.
We don't know exactly how to handle it when it comes up.
Sometimes, we don't know just what to do when adversity takes over.
And I have advice for all of us, I got it from my pianist Joe Zawinul who wrote this tune.
And it sounds like what you're supposed to say when you have that kind of problem.
It's called mercy, mercy, mercy.”

Preach!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mYN0Tkoik

True story:

Live at “The Club” was not really a “live” album and was not recorded at “The Club.” The Club was a new club in Chicago owned by a friend of Cannonball Adderly, and Adderly wanted to give him some free publicity. But, I learned many years after first purchasing the album, after countless listens imagining how wild the atmosphere in The Club must have been that night, that the entire album was actually recorded in a sound studio in LA, with a bunch of Adderly’s friends and music industry folks who had been bribed to attend with an open bar in order to give it a live recording feel. When I first learned this, I was disappointed for about two seconds, feeling like this masterpiece of a live album was somehow inauthentic. But then I thought about how I would feel if I had been invited to watch Cannonball Adderly record one of the best albums of his storied career, and I was given free booze on top of it all. Well, god damn, I’d be going nuts too, and there would be nothing contrived about it.

I will say I enjoyed the Gladys Knight and the Pippiest Pips. Got to see that movie.

Cannonball is an old favorite, I will look at that one when I don't have a call in 2 minutes.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Written by Josef Zawinul, the cunning Austrian keyboardist ........

I'm Jewish.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I'm Jewish.

I’ll try to include some Klezmer as the SOTD pick one of these days.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I’ll try to include some Klezmer as the SOTD pick one of these days.

Hank digs Matisyahu, I think.

King Without A Crown, live at Stubb's

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Hank digs Matisyahu, I think.

King Without A Crown, live at Stubb's

I’m punk. Here is Hasidic Hardcore!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVlCahhogv8

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I love telemedicine. Soooo much can be done by zoom, about half my appointments are now zooms. I think a lot of docs really like it, too.

We stood up a practice in about two weeks that would have taken years before Covid. We'll see what happens going forward as states stop with the emergency rules and have to figure out how we're going to operate.

Texas will join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact March 1, which is a good sign. Our legislature was at war with Teledoc a few years back, and we were very restrictive.

I've had a number of OB visits via telemedicine, and it's been very nice to check in without having to deal with going to the clinic.