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(CBS News) Do doctors make the big bucks? According to the latest annual survey from Medscape from WebMD, physicians across the board are earning less - and worrying more. Moreover, if they had a chance to start their careers all over again, 46 percent of doctors would not choose medicine, the report shows.
"Physicians' sense of worry may be greater than the reality, but it's understandable," Judy Aburmishan, a partner in FGMK, LLC in Chicago, a firm that represents physicians and other healthcare providers, told Medscape. "Hospitals are buying up private practices both in primary care and the specialties. The heavy-handed message they send out is that if you don't join us, you won't survive. There is great uncertainty and fear about what healthcare reform will mean for physicians once it's fully implemented."
Medscape surveyed 24,000 doctors from across 25 different medical specialties. The survey found wide pay differences, depending on the doctor's specialty - or gender. Female doctors make 40 percent less than male doctors.
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I guess so. They won't be able to suck their patients dry of their hard earned money anymore. They have been OVER paid for too long.
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Well, everyone in the working class that don't throw a ball around a field and whine when they can't get taxpayers to buy them new stadiums because that rather than the team doing a good job will somehow bring in the paying customers but I digress, that is...
I read the job ads today. The few positions I qualify for pay 40% less than the used to, and require far more requirements. It's outrageous, and makes it more difficult for people to catch up, get ahead, etc... but most people prefer cozy one-liners, so I won't try to discuss every facet to the problems working people face today. Even politicians prefer their empty one-liners...
Still, "supply and demand" or at least before means were created to upend and end run around that little inconvenient truth - it's the pay that compels people to study and spend on college. The reward FOR hard work. Now, if wages are shrinking and duties are higher, just for the sake of one big fat leech at the top, that leech has no right to blame the working class for enslaving themselves just to make HIM richer. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, et cetera...
No surprise, just like specialists making a lot more than GP's.