By comparison, lawyers average just over $110,000, airline pilots about $92,000, and chartered actuaries — who calculate risk for insurance companies and must pass complex exams longer and arguably more difficult than the medical boards — about $150,000.
Since when people should get paid more based on how difficult their exams are? What may be difficult for me, may not be difficult for you.
Also, that you pass some exam does not qualify you or shows your skills as a physician, or for that matter, as a professional at all. It is how you perform that should determine how much potential and capabilities you have to do your job, whether a physician or a janitor. If our system focused more on the quality of the work physicians do and reward them based on these facts, and not their title, then they would probably receive a more positive reaction on this matter.
Granted, there are many physicians getting overpaid for doing nothing. However, I’m sure we can agree that there are several other of them out there getting paid just as much, or even less, for doing more work.
BLS says Lawyers average about 2200 billable hours a year, while Doctors avg. 2075, and still make less money. It’ll be exciting to see what happens now that healthcare is every bit as convoluted as the judicial system.
It’s not lost on me that this Eli Lehrer is associated with Bill Frist whose family founded HCA. Hospitals are busy buying up physician practices and have a vested interest in limiting these labor operating costs as much as possible. Consider this to be a seed planted for future propaganda as hospitals consolidate more power.
I like the last link. It’s like people forget where the money for all this stuff comes from.
On the second link, a better question might be: “If we had a free market in health care, how might doctor’s pay change?”
From the second link:
Since when people should get paid more based on how difficult their exams are? What may be difficult for me, may not be difficult for you.
Also, that you pass some exam does not qualify you or shows your skills as a physician, or for that matter, as a professional at all. It is how you perform that should determine how much potential and capabilities you have to do your job, whether a physician or a janitor. If our system focused more on the quality of the work physicians do and reward them based on these facts, and not their title, then they would probably receive a more positive reaction on this matter.
Granted, there are many physicians getting overpaid for doing nothing. However, I’m sure we can agree that there are several other of them out there getting paid just as much, or even less, for doing more work.
BLS says Lawyers average about 2200 billable hours a year, while Doctors avg. 2075, and still make less money. It’ll be exciting to see what happens now that healthcare is every bit as convoluted as the judicial system.
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Healthcare/Physicians-and-surgeons.htm
Some may argue that brain surgeons are not overpaid since they have a specialization that few other doctors share.
Doctors might not be “paid too much”, but I will say that hospitals charge too much.
It’s not lost on me that this Eli Lehrer is associated with Bill Frist whose family founded HCA. Hospitals are busy buying up physician practices and have a vested interest in limiting these labor operating costs as much as possible. Consider this to be a seed planted for future propaganda as hospitals consolidate more power.