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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
You know it doesn't. The one interesting point is this:
"Medical doctors at veterans hospitals, prisons and elsewhere earn an average of $179,500, up from $111,000 in 2005."
meaning that it is quite likely that federal-employed doctors went from few over $150k to the vast majority over $150k in 5 years. And 114,685 "health care professionals" spent some part of FY09 working for the VA (out of 304,099 total VA employees). So, it's reasonable speculation that several thousand of those $150k employees are medical doctors.
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There was also a big problem with a shortage of medical personnel in the military because of Iraq and Afghanistan. There have been all kinds of incentives to keep folks in longer, rather than just letting the ROTC docs rotate through, do their time and move on. There also have been stop-loss orders keeping some of them in.
The "and elsewhere" may include Iraq and Afghanistan, and you get extra pay for serving in a war zone.
