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A cow milks after giving birth. She will essentially continue to produce milk for as long as she is being milked. The longer she is milked the less milk she will have per day. The ideal cow gives birth once every 365ish days and will milk for 260 days a year, then spend between 45 to 90 days as a ‘dry’ cow–i.e. one that is not milked and therefore will quit producing milk. Farmers ‘dry-off’ a cow so she has a chance to recover from ‘effort’ of producing milk. A cow produces the most milk during her third lactation with good cows milking 100 lbs a day and the highest cows making in excess of 150 lbs a day. A good dairy herd will make 80 lbs of milk per day a cow or 30,000 lbs a year. Whole milk weighs 8.4lbs/gallon, so you can do the math. Your average farmer must milk all his cows every 12 hours 365 days a year because at any time greater than 3/4 of the cows in a well kept herd will be ‘in milk.’ Many farms are going to milking cows three, four, five, or even six times a day. This is a huge amount of labor, but it seems that cows might be happier being milked that amount of time–remember if her calf were milking her the calf would be milking her constatly.

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To be honest the doctor has very little control over his/her schedule. It is mostly the front office staff that are resposnsible for scheduling. It is impossible to plan what a day might be like, and near impossible to schedule. If you schedule a 15 minute apointment the appointment will take 45 minutes, if you shcedule a 30 minute apointment the apointment will take an hour. Someone will come in for one thing, yet onece they get there will have 10 other complaints that need to be adressed. Then you start to consider the minor emergencies that have to be fit in every day, and if you are really lucky you will get to take care of something more serious and more time consuming that was unplanned. Although not an MD my office runs similarly, and I am scheduled for 10 hours a day ye pan for 12 and often work 18 hours a day. The only meal I can garentee myself is breakfast the rest of the day I may or may not get anything. I get to spend evey fourth day seeing emergencies after hours that may have been better seen during regular office hours two weeks ago. Lord forbid I have any emergencies of my own to deal with. The pay issue that no one ever metions is that an MD on average makes no money untill graduating med school at 28 to 30 years old. Before that time the loans build up like a tidal wave. for 6 years after med school enough money is made to service the loans, and live in something a little better than a tenament. Then by 36 to 40 money actually starts to be made. At this point your average blue collar worker has a 22 year head start and your average white collar worker had an 18 year head start. Compound the intrest yearly on $100 saved at 18 years old versus $2000 saved at 40 and see who is ahead at 70 years old. At the end of the day the office manager not the doctor is responsible for your delays not really the doctor.

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Name : Bash, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Unitarian, Age : 33, City : Newtown, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Veterinarian, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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