A few days ago, my wife got a prescription for eye drops. Fortunately, our insurance covers them. She mentioned that the tiny 3ml bottle cost $86.
I did the math and that comes out to $108,503.33 per gallon.
I can't think of anything funny to write here.
You should have pictured it next to $86 
$108,503.33 per gallon? Someone should bottle that!
Price the ink for your printer as well. Certainly not in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per gallons, but it's in the thousands.
The inks costs the company less than a dollar a gallon.
Another startling fact, the average income for a surgeon in this country is $37k a week. I had a 30 minute surgery where they cut into where my groin meets my thigh and sent a cathode into my kidney. Only costs $8500, at least I got my private area groomed for that price.
At least birth control prices are going down 
The average surgeon makes $2,000,000/year? Really?
I'm definitely in the wrong business...
DirtyBird222 wrote: At least birth control prices are going down
Free condoms at my college. They even have a specialty condom of the day. Yesterday it was the tuxedo condom. We made balloons with them.
I should have listened to my mom and gone to med school.
Stuc wrote: The average surgeon makes $2,000,000/year? Really? I'm definitely in the wrong business...
Yes and no, the average surgeon bills $2,000,000 per year, collects about 65% of that and then pays the office staff, insurance, lawyers, taxes, accountants, rent/mortgage, equipment etc.
I bet that most surgeons make in the $145-245K range after all of that if lucky.
That's what a good nurse anesthetist can make.
One of my customers is a volunteer at a local hospital and she sees all kinds of people. She was on an elevator with one of the docs who was complaining that his retirement fund had lost $400,000.00 in a couple weeks (at the start of the stock market slide). She's not known for being quiet; she piped up and told him she had just left a patient who was agonizing over $4 aspirins and he needed to STFU.
For everyone complaining about how much their surgeon makes, swing by my house next weekend and I'll do your surgery, any surgery for only $199.99. I've got a sharp knife and the internet has pictures of surgeries so I'm sure I can figure it out.
Or did you want a competent doctor that spent 8 years in school and another four years working for next to nothing until they actually knew what they were doing?
Jensenman wrote: One of my customers is a volunteer at a local hospital and she sees all kinds of people. She was on an elevator with one of the docs who was complaining that his retirement fund had lost $400,000.00 in a couple weeks (at the start of the stock market slide). She's not known for being quiet; she piped up and told him she had just left a patient who was agonizing over $4 aspirins and he needed to STFU.
I hope she keeps her job. I would love to give her a pat on the back.
Great, one more reminder that I should have done med tech at BOCES instead of auto tech. 'Course, if I had I'd be a peramedic at this point.
Per Schroeder wrote: That's what a good nurse anesthetist can make.
You should marry one of those.
spitfirebill wrote:Jensenman wrote: One of my customers is a volunteer at a local hospital and she sees all kinds of people. She was on an elevator with one of the docs who was complaining that his retirement fund had lost $400,000.00 in a couple weeks (at the start of the stock market slide). She's not known for being quiet; she piped up and told him she had just left a patient who was agonizing over $4 aspirins and he needed to STFU.I hope she keeps her job. I would love to give her a pat on the back.
She's a volunteer, what are they going to do? Cut her pay?
stumpmj wrote: For everyone complaining about how much their surgeon makes, swing by my house next weekend and I'll do your surgery, any surgery for only $199.99. I've got a sharp knife and the internet has pictures of surgeries so I'm sure I can figure it out. Or did you want a competent doctor that spent 8 years in school and another four years working for next to nothing until they actually knew what they were doing?
+1. I'll complain. I'll complain a lot. But its worth it.
DILYSI Dave wrote:Per Schroeder wrote: That's what a good nurse anesthetist can make.You should marry one of those.
Nope, I married a social worker (BSW) who has since gone back to school and gotten her RN, she's doing cardiac intensive care and is now back in school for BSN/MSRN so she can be a nurse practitioner. that'll be a nice salary bump.
I don't really mind docs making good money, for the amount of risk they take they should be well compensated. What chaps my ass is when one of them starts complaining about what we charge an hour down here. Lemme guess: they want someone to do like stumpmj was speaking of, do a brake job for $49.95 while looking at Internet pictures? When their family's safety is dependent on a trained tech fixing their car? Yeah, right, they can kiss my a$$.
My friend still has her job, BTW. She's a tough old bird.
Per Schroeder wrote:DILYSI Dave wrote:Nope, I married a social worker (BSW) who has since gone back to school and gotten her RN, she's doing cardiac intensive care and is now back in school for BSN/MSRN so she can be a nurse practitioner. that'll be a nice salary bump.Per Schroeder wrote: That's what a good nurse anesthetist can make.You should marry one of those.
Some of the most berkeleyed up stories I've ever heard were told to me by a cardiac nurse.
Like the families that bring in full-on Checkers/Hardees/McDonalds dinners for their loved ones that are in the hospital for a bypass and are sick of eating hospital food?
One thing you also need to consider regarding the doctors salaries is that they typically will have HUGE student loans to pay off. Also the fact that they will not be making any real money until what 35? I don't know the real data is but you have to figure most aren't really doing good until they are 50 or so? I am sure the Doc has some more data on this..
I don't complain about what doctors charge. It's an incredibly difficult job with a great deal of liablility and responsibility involved, and they've spent $$$$$$ on education.
I know a guy (a total shiny happy person) who is not much older than me in the IT field who says he makes $2.5k on jobs that take him a grand total of 20 minutes. Now unless you can eat crackers and E36 M3 out a gaming laptop I can't imagine any service in the IT field that could be performed in a grand total of 20 minutes that is worth that much money. I bet when PASCAL coders are pulled out of retirement they don't make that much. The fact that this guy is not a higher-up at a big company with a monopoly on some technology - that he is pulling this off from a small company on a small island - somehow outrages me more.
Once upon a time, there was a company which had a huge machine to make its products. That machine began showing signs of difficulty, so they called in an engineer.
The engineer walked up and down the sides of the machine, stroking his chin and furrowing his brow. He then pulled a piece of chalk out of his pocket, walked over to the machine and drew a big X on a panel and said 'Here's where the problem is'.
The panel was removed and sure enough there was the bad part. Said part was replaced, the machine went back to working perfectly and a few days later the company received an invoice for $50,000.00. 
The poobahs got outraged over this and demanded an itemized bill for the $50,000.00. A few days later, they received it:
ITEMIZED INVOICE
Chalk used to mark problem area $.05
Knowing where to put the chalk mark $49,999.95.
Payment terms net 10.
Have a nice day!
Gameboy, you shouldn't be outraged... that's the way it works in most industries, and it DEFINITELY works that way in IT. As Jensenman put it, it's all about knowing where to put the chalk mark. In IT, it's knowing which line to change in the config, which button to push, or which setting to change--Simple things that only take a minute, but knowing how and when to do them are very valuable skills.
Real world example: When GRM was running so slow this summer, it was one line in the server config--about 12 characters--and took less than a minute to change. But I'd have given almost anything to the guy who knew where to mark that particular X, and I spent a stupid number of hours learning how and why to make that chalk mark myself.
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