Comments on: US Doctor Salaries

By: Ron H.

Ron H. — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:49:00 +0000

What!?!? Are you trying to tell me price controls don't work as intended? Who would have thought.

By: Corky Boyd

Corky Boyd — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 02:21:00 +0000

How horrible the idea that doctors make a lot of money. I graduated fron a top university (actually the same one as yours) where top students competed for the opportunity to be accepted for med school. Med school acceptance was far more difficult than law. Why did the best and brightest pick medicine as a career? Healing yes, but financial rewards were a major factor. And I for one would rather have the brightest treating me than a C student.

Canada has caps on physicians' earnings. And they found that bureacratic controls have a tough time finding the sweet spot of what is too much and what is too little. Caps generate their own problems. Many Canadian doctors reach their caps well before the end of the year with the obvious result it is often difficult to obtain care in December.

By: MNHawk

MNHawk — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:26:00 +0000

Look up on the other website linked and it's $175k. You know. You've
now hit Director level. I think my doctor is worth it., again,
considering his 10 years of schooling and the slavery known as
internship.

By: obloodyhell

obloodyhell — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:11:00 +0000

Yeah, but in Manhattan, $1,000,000 only buys you a one bedroom flat on the fourth floor of a walk up tenement...

It's not like it's REAL money.

By: obloodyhell

obloodyhell — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:09:00 +0000

Doctors make FAR more than their published salaries. That's one thing that came out back in the 90s -- they tap danced around the laws and agreed to some trivial BS, and in return the way their published salaries were described were reduced. It was just another example of the ridiculous power the Doctor's Guild (aka "AMA") is.

By: MNHawk

MNHawk — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:29:00 +0000

Let's see, major in Poli Sci with the rest of the morons on campus, get elected to congress, make $170kish per year.

Buckle down, study and slave in an internship for 10 years and make...

$146k? That's what I'm supposed to get excited about, according to the lowest of low information journalism, in Mother Jones? That's less than director level in a corporation.

By: mesaeconoguy

mesaeconoguy — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:59:00 +0000

That is the particular practice I was thinking of in that comment.

Manhattan is an excellent example of $1,000,000+ malpractice insurance premiums driving out doctors.

By: DanSmith

DanSmith — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:23:00 +0000

I'm a retired family physician. When I would be on call for my group it was over night, typically followed by a regular work day in the morning. On weekends, 24 hour duty plus making hospital rounds both days. Call frequency was on the average once a week, but could be more. I think it's a pretty typical experience. And since I practiced OB, I was also on call for any of my patients who might be in labor. I've only been retired 9 months, by the way. With more and more hospitalists available for inpatient care, the hours spent working by primary care doctors in urban areas are fewer. On the other hand, the documentation requirements (electronic medical records) are more onerous and are not billable in the same way that an attorney's "think time" is. By the time people wake up to the awful reality of ObamaCare, it will be impossible to go back, and the only alternative will be government run medicine. In my opinion, that was always the agenda of the people who pushed the bill into law.

By: Barbara S. Meyer

Barbara S. Meyer — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:44:00 +0000

I stopped questioning doctor's fees after my experience at my eye doctor's office. Just the equipment! He is upgrading all the time, probably 5 or 6 times in the six or seven years I've been treated for macular degeneration. Those machines are incredible. I'm only afraid he'll be able to read my mind next. I try very hard to hide the fact that this fat, 79 year old woman has a crush on him.

By: marque2

marque2 — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:28:00 +0000

I am not sure if it is a driver in all aspects, but it certainly is a problem for OBGYN who deliver babies. In some states like Texas, the insurance has priced baby delivering doctors out of the market - in Texas over the last few years the situation has improved with some tort reforms in medical malpractice laws.