Did some research on Medical Doctors Salaries, I found most Specialist Average about $250,000 a year. The thing that gets me is I always hear in the news about malpractice insurance rates being to high and doctors complaining, but I just looked up the national premium rates and they are only like $8,000 a year.

uhhh $8,000 out of $250,000 ya Doc thats gonna run you out of business.

Also, A Chemist or Physicist with a PHD, will only make $100,000 if they are lucky.

just remember that w/o doctors theres a very good chance you wouldnt be alive right now, or your parents... etc. Doctors make as much as they do for a reason, doctors are also sued very frequently for what usually very silly things that they have no control over.

dont forget that docters have 100K-400K in school bills, etc to pay off. and work up to 20 hours a day, some probibly get stuck working a 24 hours shift.

specialists who make $250K dont work 24 hours shifts, though they do work crazy hours nevertheless. interns and those on rotation work 24+ hour shifts and only make about $25-30K.

doctors are worth the money they make. They spend a good ten years of their life being poor and learning before they can even think about making the big money.

ya they do work a lot... still I would say getting a phd in physics or some hard science is if not harder or hard a getting a MD, but the pay off is smaller. that just seems really lame

-coustoe+Nov 20, 2004 - 9:51 AM

i agree 100% you never see physicists living in the lap of luxary, even if they discovered something big!

and don't forget general pratice doctors don't make much at all; that and the economy is hurting them badly right now.

Wow, maybe next time your apendix is inflamed or theres a lump in your sac you can cut it out yourself? Wouldn't wanna go to someone who spent nearly a decade in school and now reaps the benefits.

Also physicists don't make alot of money because unless they are researching new ways to kill people they don't matter in the eyes of most. I think 100k a year is more then enough to live a good life anyways.

This post has been edited by Uppitycracker: Nov 20, 2004 - 3:44 PM

yeah 100k is a good paycheck.

also should mention that dr. put there carrer on the line every time they cut into someone, if they do something rong there done for life. and have to start all over agian with a new job, and carrer path.

-coustoe+Nov 19, 2004 - 9:41 PM
I just hope you remember saying this when you get into a car accident and live because of the doctor's over-payed salary. I almost want to show this to one of the doctors I work with and have him/her respond to your statement. A life is priceless.

This post has been edited by Andason: Nov 20, 2004 - 6:26 PM

Doctors get paid what they do because of the level of responsibility involved, plain and simple. It takes a special kind of person to have that level of concentration on a daily basis when it comes to surgeons and such. They defininetly EARN their salaries for sure.

This post has been edited by saleeka: Nov 20, 2004 - 10:02 PM

yet we have the highest malpractices then ever before.

I'm not saying doctors dont deserve to be paid, they do and good money, but not ridiculous rates. Theres a artifical supply and demand problem set up by the Doctors themselves to keep rates for common procedures ridculously high.

Hospitals wanted to qualify anesthetist to do more things that Anethesiologist do, but there was a huge backlash by Anesthesiologist.

Its similiar in other specialities, you have the majority of the Work done by nurse level or just graduate level assistants. These people know more from years of exp then some MDs but get paid way less, but are prohibited from officially doing the same things as their MD counterparts.

Next time you get sick and have to pay out the wazoo, remember that your doctor is laughing all the way to the bank, for something that couldve been done by an assistant level for way less.

oh just because you go to years of school doesn't make you automatically responsible, I think thats pretty clear from all the sexual offense and malpractice cases agaisnt doctors

This post has been edited by coustoe: Nov 20, 2004 - 10:18 PM

-Andason+Nov 20, 2004 - 4:25 PM

I worked in a hospital for 4 years and saw Doctors Screw up alot, kinda changed my view of things


This post has been edited by coustoe: Nov 20, 2004 - 10:23 PM

Im forgetting that you guys don't have public health care, I suppose in this case its different because a good amount of people can't get care because of this. But thats the governments bad spending, not the doctors. I think there should be a secondary government to govern the primary government spending, its just insane the amount of money wasted.