Got my Christmas Chrome put on!!!

My family decked the bars for my Christmas gift. Got the Kury control covers, clutch perch cover, master cylinder cover, and wide levers. I'm BLINGIN!!! :cyclops: :cyclops: :cyclops: :cyclops:

People are chroming PERCH??? I thought that was only done to a large mouth bass, by a true redneck biker!

Muntz wrote:People are chroming PERCH??? I thought that was only done to a large mouth bass, by a true redneck biker!

I think you know what I meant...the little part that holds the clutch lever...

I'm still waiting for my wife to send back my chrome and get me the right one. I got the Kury curved license plate bracket. I want the curved laydown. I think it will look better on the R.

BTW...what are you going to specialize in when you finish all your training?

I'm enrolled in the Rural Medicine curriculum at TCOM in Ft. Worth. I intend to specialize in Family Medicine and practice in a small town somewhere. City life is wearing me out. I grew up in a town of 5624 people. Dallas is just too busy for me.

Muntz wrote:I'm still waiting for my wife to send back my chrome and get me the right one. I got the Kury curved license plate bracket. I want the curved laydown. I think it will look better on the R.

the curved laydown looks so much better. That's what I've got on mine, only thing I didn't like about it was I really couldn't use my stock light. It didn't add enough light to really see it, but Kury does make LED's to take care of that as well.

here's what it looks like now

DocRawk wrote: City life is wearing me out. I grew up in a town of 5624 people. Dallas is just too busy for me.

I hate having to do ANYTHING in Dallas, that's why I alsways try to avoid it.

DocRawk wrote:I'm enrolled in the Rural Medicine curriculum at TCOM in Ft. Worth. I intend to specialize in Family Medicine and practice in a small town somewhere. City life is wearing me out. I grew up in a town of 5624 people. Dallas is just too busy for me.

If I could do my life over, I would have become a doctor. Nah, I don't really want a do over and risk not having hebear or my son. I think it is great that you are wanting to practice in a small town. Let me know where you end up someday, I'll move there and give you a real challenge! At the moment, I have my family doctor (Internal med) and 6 other specialists that I see on a very regular basis.

Losing hebears medical coverage with his lay off, I'm now enrolled in a Medicare Rx plan. I will hit the donut hole in Feb. and be into catastrophic coverage by the beginning of May. Be good, save your money and spend it on medicine

Ah well, it is only life on the earthly plane of existance, no matter.

DocRawk wrote:I'm enrolled in the Rural Medicine curriculum at TCOM in Ft. Worth. I intend to specialize in Family Medicine and practice in a small town somewhere. City life is wearing me out. I grew up in a town of 5624 people. Dallas is just too busy for me.

Move out here to Greenville, TX. In this town, all the good Dr.'s are not accepting new patients, and the Dr's that are, work in the dumpiest places and have the worst looking nurses and staff (the kind that just don't look clean). My wife and I walked out of a place today. I LOVE THE COUNTRY LIFE OUT HERE!!

ttexastim wrote:Move out here to Greenville, TX. In this town, all the good Dr.'s are not accepting new patients, and the Dr's that are, work in the dumpiest places and have the worst looking nurses and staff (the kind that just don't look clean). My wife and I walked out of a place today. I LOVE THE COUNTRY LIFE OUT HERE!!

I'm absolutely looking to live and practice in the country, unfortunately, I won't be licensed to practice for another 7-8 years, and I hope to be serving in a federally designated underserved area for the first four years after that (the feds will pay for my school and living expenses for the next four years if I do that!) That puts me 12 years down the road at a youthful 37 hopefully with a wife and a few younguns before I actually get the privilege of living wherever I want without anyone else having a say in it. It's all good though. There're underserved areas all over the US. Unfortunately most of the Texas sites are either inner city public health clinics or prison health care...I'm thinking about spending 4 years either in rural new england somewhere, the northwest, or they've even got a couple spots in small towns away from the touristy parts of Hawaii island. I'm honestly leaning towards Hawaii right now, but it's a long way off, and I don't know what I'll want in 8 years. I don't think I'd want to settle there, but 4 years could be pleasant.

shebear wrote:

DocRawk wrote:I'm enrolled in the Rural Medicine curriculum at TCOM in Ft. Worth. I intend to specialize in Family Medicine and practice in a small town somewhere. City life is wearing me out. I grew up in a town of 5624 people. Dallas is just too busy for me.

If I could do my life over, I would have become a doctor. Nah, I don't really want a do over and risk not having hebear or my son. I think it is great that you are wanting to practice in a small town. Let me know where you end up someday, I'll move there and give you a real challenge! At the moment, I have my family doctor (Internal med) and 6 other specialists that I see on a very regular basis.

Losing hebears medical coverage with his lay off, I'm now enrolled in a Medicare Rx plan. I will hit the donut hole in Feb. and be into catastrophic coverage by the beginning of May. Be good, save your money and spend it on medicine

Ah well, it is only life on the earthly plane of existance, no matter.

I'm a firm believer in catastrophe coverage. I think that most of us could save a lot of money with decent Rx coverage and low premium catastrophe policies instead of high premium policies with pretty $20 copays and $250-500 deductibles. If doctors didn't have to deal with paying multiple clerks just to be sure that the insurance companies pay what's owed to them, the cost would be a lot lower for the patient. I'd rather pay $80 for an office visit 2-4 times per year than pay several hundred per month so that I can still pay $20 when I actually see a doctor. That would push the cost down for everyone, and people with major problems would be covered under catastrophic policies. After working with several doctors over the last year or so, I've come to the conclusion that we'd all be better off without the insurance companies all together. Pay as much as you can, and let the government subsidize the rest. As it stands, you're paying the government for your health care anyway in the form of political contributions from the health care management companies. At least it'd be honest that way...at least as honest as government can be...

I'm stuck with Medicare and it's various plans. I'm not insurable otherwise. At least the med plan will keep me from spending over $17,000 in prescription costs out of pocket. I have yet to go for a full year without a new diagnosis and additional tests. Oh, well, just a normal life for me.

I really am envious of you going to school and becoming a doctor.

Yeah, Medicare pretty well sucks all the way around. Physicians are paid the same wages by Medicare that they were in 1983, and on top of that, a 10% pay cut has been scheduled and pushed back one year at a time for quite a while now...In many cases, it costs more to treat a patient than Medicare will pay the physician, so patients using it are often a financial loss for the physician, and the politicians want to give a 10% pay cut. Unfortunately for the people stuck with Medicare, this will likely lead to many physicians opting out of it, and it will become increasingly difficult to find providers willing to accept it. I guess this is what we get when the government gets to micromanage our health care... It costed $25 for an office visit with the physician that I work with before HMO's and PPO's came along. Now we have to pay someone to file everything with the insurance companies, not to mention the insurance companies trying to deny things to increase their profits. We saw a woman yesterday that had gotten a nasty letter from her Part D provider saying that they would only pay for 3 months per year of a drug she needs year round to keep her alive... The doc had to call the insurance company and practically beg them to review her case. This is petty BS, and doctors, patients, and everyone else involved have better things to be doing. Health care wouldn't be so expensive in the first place if we didn't have swindling insurance companies as middle men.