That’s a funny title. But don’t worry. I’ll connect those two ideas.

I grew up in Bellingham in the 1970s. The people with money were the doctors, lawyers and fishermen. I wanted to be one of those people.

But a lot has changed scene the 1970s for all three of those professions. Maybe the most for doctors. And especially for neurologists.

There was an article in the May 20, 2010 Brain & Life publication called: The Demise of Private Practice Neurology: Death by a Thousand Cuts.

Many neurologists have been run out of private practice by hospitals. And then hired as employees by the hospitals and put to work.

I deposed a neurologist a couple of years ago. She made approximately $124,000 a year. The median household income in Seattle is $121,000.

So, desperate to maintain the lifestyles they once knew (or hoped they would know), some neurologists sold themselves out to auto insurers. The mission? To perpetuate disinformation about how difficult it is to sustain a concussion and that those people who do suffer concussions get better in two weeks.

(These neurologists are beginning to look more and more like the doctors who testified to Congress that cigarettes don’t cause cancer.)