DISQUS

Future Doc · 1 year ago

I think it's sad that people feel the constant need to hide behind "Anonymous".

I also think some people just fail to grasp the concept that people put well over 10 years of education into becoming a doctor, are charged hideously for the knowledge and constantly face the risk of litigation. £90,000 sounds a bit of a rip off when you think about.

But I'm sure "Anonymous" can discuss this with their local Emergency Department when they ever need their services.

CK · 1 year ago

I forgot where, but I had read a comment from someone who was initially an investment banker and decided to go into medicine. He said he was astonished at the work/effort he had to put in during his training. Even as an investment banker, he hadn't been exposed to the constant stresses and work of being a resident. I thought that was really saying something.

People that rage on physician dissatisfaction with pay really have no concept of what goes into the training. They assume you're just innately smart and that's how you got the job. As a medstudent, I have less time now than I did in undergrad -- where I was a full-time student working a full-time job!

It doesn't end there either. I know when I finally start a career, I'll be working at least 60 hrs/week in the hospital, not counting work done at home.

90k/yr for 60-80 hours a week? I could make more money tending bar with none of the schooling or debt!

feminizedwesternmale · 1 year ago

Hey Tough Guy, Mr. Anonymous, I know you are blowing off steam, that aging scares you, and rightly so.  Nevertheless, cowardice bolstered with hyperbole and non sequitur doesn't make you an effective AARP spokesman.  Please play again when you can dignify a reply with adult maturity and Truth.





HH, it is simple mathematics:  There isn't a choice, and eventually, the belt will begin to break on Covert Rationing, and we will turn towards the tails of the bell curve.  To keep children from butting into adult conversation, you may suggest that it is implicit that any of the limitations you suggest are always available to a prohibited group, when they cough up their own dime and start paying for the care they receive, in lieu of birthright free health care, including life-limiting or life-ending situations. 



I'm sorry to be so hard on the chap, but unless people are enlightened OR educated enough to understand that money doesn't grow on trees, we don't really help them to grow up by pretending that they have a place at the adult table. 

Anonymous · 1 year ago

It's ridiculous to claim that $90K is anywhere near excessive for a physician. Anyone who actually thinks that should try med school for a month. Or a surgery residency for a week.

My wife is a nurse, and she makes around $27 an hour only two years after graduating (this can be done with only an associates in nursing). If she were to work 60 hours a week like many physicians, she would be making $100,000 a year. A nurse. A job that can be attained with 2-4 years of school. By no means do I think that nurses shouldn't be paid well, but doesn't it make a little sense that a person who spends 12-15 years getting their degree (which is far more rigorous and time-consuming, to say nothing of the extra $200,000 in tuition) should be paid more? The physician takes on much more liability and responsibility than a nurse.


The whiner who made that post sounds like they made some poor decisions in life and now want to cry sour grapes that you have a reasonable salary for an exceptional amount of work.

Michael Rack, MD · 1 year ago

Future doc, I think it's a little ironic for an anonymous blogger to complain about Anonymous commenters on an anonymous blog (though I understand HH's reasons for staying anonymous).

The Happy Hospitalist · 1 year ago

Michael. To clarify. I am anonymous really in "spirit" only. A ton of coworkers and hospital folks know I do this. I really don't consider myself an anonymous blogger because the people that really matter already know I do this. Plus I think Happy Hospitalist has a better ring than my real name. And it leaves so much up to the imagination.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

OTHER PROFESSIONALS BESIDES DOCTORS PUT IN "HARD WORK AND SACRIFICE". Years and years worth.

Doctors aren't alone in this; something that a lot of you in the medical profession fail to grasp.

Ya' wonder why so many people are so anxious to sue their doctor?

Ya' ever think his arrogance -- a sense of entitlement to a high six-figure income just because you are DOCTOR who has put in "hard work and sacrifice" has something to do with it?

YA' THINK???

Or are you all too busy whining about your "hard work and sacrifice"? Boo hoo hoo. I deserve a half-million a year. I'm a DOCTOR. I put in 10 years hard work and sacrifice to get to be one. Waaaaahhhh!

What you deserve is $50K starting salary like the rest of us in so many fields that also require 8-10 years of graduate and post-graduate schooling.

Oh, but silly me, I forgot. You are real DOCTORS, not just dumb egg-head PhDs. You put in HARD WORK AND SACRIFICE.

Gimme a break.