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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Doctors are overpaid? These shitheads do considerable damage to their credibility by demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the cost of medical school loans, and the opportunity cost of being out of the workforce for what - six, seven years? The rest of the points are worth making, and insightful. But as to the doctor pay one, I'd like ten minutes alone with the these fucks in an alleyway... a well lit one one where I could show them the monthly loan payments the average doc makes, and the insurance bills he pays.
I'm sure everybody married to a health care provider feels the same. Doctors should always be among the highest paid professionals. When they aren't, you know a culture's priorities are way the fuck out of whack.
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There are some overpaid doctors. The idea that cataract cowboys are at the top of the opthamology heap, for example, reflects some strange outcomes born from our third party payor systems. On the other hand, the fact that private pay nip and tuck compensates better than fixing up the faces of mauled kids is just a product of capitalism.
But you can't pay a good neuro- or cardiac- surgeon enough, and the top radiologists who read my xrays probably aren't paid anywhere near what they are worth.
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