Do you think doctors are paid too much or are they paid enough?

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LaFerrari · Accepted Answer

Some MDs are making from $100,000-300,000, so it really depends on what they are and what field they specialize in or if they are in private/government or public.

Neurosurgery doctors are making about $600-$800,000 a year
Thoracic Surgery doctors are making about $550-$760,000 a year
Orthopaedic Surgery doctors are making about $500-$700,000 a year
Radiation Oncology doctors are making about $430-$630,000 a year
Vascular Surgery doctors are making about $410-625,000 a year
Dermatology doctors are making about $455-$590,000 a year
Cardiology doctors are making about $450-$590,000 a year
Plastic Surgery doctors are making about $430-$560,000 a year
Gastroenterology doctor are making about $430-$550,000 a year
Radiology doctors are making about $420-$530,000 a year
Urology doctors are making about $420-$520,000 a year
Anesthesiology doctors are making about $400-$520,000 a year
General Surgery doctors are making about $377-$520,000 a year
Otolaryngology (ENT) doctors are making about $300-$515,000 a year
Oncology doctors are making about $300-$490,000 a year

And the list goes on... I think the amount of skill it takes to be a heart surgeon or a brain surgeon requires a lot of skill. So yes they should be paid a lot to do it. Goes for other specialties as well.

MTC29 · Accepted Answer

They are at the top of the professional pyramid. The levels of education between a medical doctor and an engineer (my profession) are nearly equal, as is the internship required to become licensed. Even so, medical doctors tend to be better paid. @LaFerrari listed various salary ranges.

I was a principal engineer (supervising engineer) for a medium sized city and was earning $180,000 annually. I'm sure that sounds like a huge amount of money to some, but it also required a graduate degree in engineering. Even so, my salary fell into the mid range of what MD's are earning.

Are doctors underpaid? Professional to professional, no, I don't believe they are.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I’m actually a medical student
Where do I start… it’s so hard? Medical school is very very very hard. It breaks your soul, every day is a new challenge. We cover at least 8 lectures per day. A book Is done in a week.
Exams are very hard. I cry every day. I have no life.. everyone here is worrying about tests and passing.
I’m usually school home and feeling worried every day.
Also , I’m in debt too much loans.
So , no doctors are not paid at ALL. Dr salary should be higher. It has to BE
I have spend my 20s to be here I’m 30 I won’t get paid within 2 more years probably.

For those who say doctors are drug dealers , stop it. When you are at the emergency you go and cry to the hospital to let you in. I know when we are all happy and safe and healthy we don’t care but as soon as you get sick you go to the hospital right away don’t you?

TrueConfection · Accepted Answer

I'll give my opinion about U. S. doctors;

Not enough. All doctors have to pay for very expensive insurance policies regardless if they own their own practice or work for a conglomerate. The doctors who wish to own their own practice have exorbitant overhead costs coupled with low "allowance" amounts dictated by the insurance companies. Private practices are becoming a thing of the past and moving to "group" practices because doctors aren't being paid enough to sustain those costs.

Kaneki05 · Answer

Minimum £17,054.4 wage
10 years in total to train to be a doctor.
Doctors estimated per year £84,559 to £114,003
Meanwhile the average wage of a Premier League footballer is just over £60,000 a week, which equates to more than 3 million a year.
Hmm it's almost like... other jobs get paid way more for much more useless jobs.
Because honestly anyone with thinks a doctor should get paid less than a footballer or any kinda sport professional needs help mentally.

Tbh to me a doctor wage been 5x minimum is pretty good but I don't know what jobs exist so there could be easier jobs without such training and all that make 5x the amount of it.

But what i do know just there are other jobs that get paid way more for more unhelpful work rather than the one we actually fully need that surely could be brought way down and actually use that money to pay people who work in NHS and such services.

dustybiker · Answer

I’ll mix up my answer. This leads my thoughts to an ER. The nurses are running around seeing to everyone’s urgent needs, the doctors sit at the desk on computers for hours on end doing goodness know what. They only make brief appearances ordering tests or giving the nurses more work. As a casual observer one is in debt to schooling, the other is in debt to schooling and being run off their feet. Sure keep the doctors paycheck what it is their decisions can be accurate.. My interest is that nurses eventually get out of debt too. They earn it.

FilmGuy93 · Answer

Meh... I think the amount they're paid is okay, but the overhead expenses of practicing medicine border on the obscene. So they make their money, but they also lose a lot as a simple cost of doing business. What I would really like is to see the destruction of the specialist referral system. Specialists make 2 or 3 times what general physicians make, and those fuckers don't even need to work to get new clients because general physicians refer their patients to relevant specialists within the same HMO umbrella.

XSea-Sonic · Answer

They go to school for 12+ years, and they spent much of those 12 years in school (they sleep very little). Darwinism at its best. Many many who go to med school wash out, like Navy candidates in BUD/S.

Only the best make it. And of those, the best doctors should be paid a premium. For some reason, republicans are anti-science and anti-medicine, and believe they know more than said doctors. Instead of a vaccine for Covid, they’re taking bovine de-wormer to treat Covid. :O

Anonymous · Answer

I don't know how good or lousy the medics are being paid. I am not in position to judge this.

However I rather spend all my money on these doctors to cure, help and save me and fix my health problems rather than bitch about them charging us money to finance their living. I know many specimen, that are proof of evolution going backwards, that reject primary paid medical healthcare and keep existing with their disgusting diseases and they also insult the only people, that can really help them but only for money. Those freaky and sick complete weirdos deserve their medical conditions. I feel sorry for the medics.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

It depends on whether they put their best effort into caring for their patients or whether they neglect the welfare of their patient for personal gain. Like my grandma had a doctor who did not give her pain killers for her bone problems because he wanted to leave work 10 minutes early - that doctor is clearly over paid. My other doctor treats our family like we are catholic saints - that doctor is justly paid - he is very kind towards everybody and smiles 24/7.

SimplyKayla02 · Answer

Kim Kardashian gets paid too much, doctors deserve everything they get. They spend years learning their trade, both in the classroom and the field. They must constantly keep educating themselves on new medical advancements often without any fiscal compensation all to simply save lives. So I say no, they are not paid too much.

electromagnetic · Answer

I think it depends of the type of work they do and where they work. Private doctors/surgeon ( cosmetically) make a bucket load of money and that’s because they have the market and clientele willing to pay the bucket folds.
Civil servants that work in general hospital, they make money too but lot close compared to the private market. But I think for some, that’s where they want to be in their life. To help people.

jshm2 · Answer

Depends as not all doctors are equal.

I have a palliative care doctor for an uncle, he earns around 300k a year. I have a family friend who is a general surgery doctor, he makes around 100k a year. I also manage contracts for a few care homes and those doctors earn between 350-500k a year.

Everyone talks about doctors like it's some sort of single job. When in fact there are many types of doctors in many different types of contracts.

t-8900 · Answer

Doctors work long hours, they put in a lot of grind to get there too. They are irreplaceable parts of our communities. At the same time medical care is expensive. Leave them be as they are. Work with insurance companies to find better ways to deal with the patient's financial situations.

Adam1978 · Answer

It's really based on the debt you build to become one. If there was no debt building you could consider lowering the pay a bit but they certainly deserve to be in the high pay league.

PoliteSpeaker · Answer

They are paid in direct ratio for the service they provide. A individual doctor is getting what he deserves. And if you own all those doctors you are also getting what you deserve which is way more than the doctors. If the doctor wishes for more money then he must provide better service.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

I think doctors who give the best treatment should be paid the highest
I know this Dr. Pepper I would not take a dog to, all he does comes in
for a matter of 5 minutes then walks out, now my doctor now she
takes about an hour before she sees her patients that is how booked
up she seems to be with seeing patients

andreasderjuengere · Answer

Most "Doctors" are drug dealers - their drugs just are 'sanctioned'.
The medical system is a money making machine where they are happy about each sick customer.
Healthy people don't make them rich.
So for me it's: most ''Doctors'' can go to hell.
The few with traditional medical ethics do indeed deserve a very good income.

Made4sex · Answer

Lol! This got some great reactions! I personally do see your point though. They get over charged for their schooling (as do we all) in America and most of them make enough in a year to still pay that off in a couple of years… like they save lives literally! They should make a ton. But that is exsecive.

Surely · Answer

That is hard to say. Since most are in a group and we don’t know how much they actually take home.
The price that is billed to the patients or the insurance is ridiculous from an office visit!
I understand that their malpractice insurance is quite expensive.

VTecumseh · Answer

I think we don't have the right to demand someone work for us for less, that's slavery. So whatever their price is at the moment, in a free country with no price controls, that's the correct price.

G5TWA1 · Answer

dunno about money depends on what they do and where they work but they should definitely work less hours, lack of sleep is the biggest contributor to medical errors

Ms_Vanderquack · Answer

Are you kidding? Most doctors aren’t paid shit. Not for the education required and amount of work they do.

MysticDevice · Answer

Honestly I think they should get paid more. For the amount of BS they put up with. You know who is overpaid though? Athletes. Rappers. Pop Stars. Polititians.

Apulu_02 · Answer

They don't study to get treated poorly. I think it depends on the area. Different places give different amount to salary to doctors. But in my country they gat what they deserve.

tatianamay · Answer

I don't know about the US, but in India, absolutely not. My parents are underpaid and work long hours. Both of them are surgeons, and my dad is a 5 time gold medalist in medicine.

pleasestopthis · Answer

Of course not. They spent A LOT of time studying, the career is one of the longest in most countries, besides it's very expensive. They deserve their high pay.

Hanmakevi · Answer

Yes they’re paid enough nurses could be paid better tho

najekim · Answer

Depends. When my wife had cancer we had to go to a specialist of her kind of cancer. For 15 minutes with him, including 2-3 minutes of him looking down her throat, the bill was $2000. Luckily the insurance picked it up.

IveGotNoName · Answer

Depends on the country. But I come from a family full of doctors, and they think the pay is sufficient.

DonkeyDan · Answer

Well as I've had my life saved twice buy doctors I think they are well worth their salary.

cloud9vortex1234 · Answer

The market determines that as well as how few of them have Highly Specialized Skills. If their in Great Demand with how few of them their are then they can charge a higher price.

cth96190 · Answer

Let the free market deterime the reward for effort.

exitseven · Answer

They are not overpaid. And they pay a ton of money for malpractice insurance.

DaveToo · Answer

Ask any doctor that has been in practice for 10 years if they have paid off their education debt.

Wester1967 · Answer

I see doctors in the USA living in McMansions and calling themselves pill farmers. I see doctors in Colombia, Cambodia and Thailand acting like normal people. Figure it out

genericname85 · Answer

I don't care. The market determines the prices. How much you are paid is not a moral question.

jasco · Answer

Well first off it’s a dangerous job so yea any job that requires you to be at risk is gonna pay well

In_Trance · Answer

This is a good question. Immediate answer is yes, however in the event that someone saves your like, how can you put a price on that?

Twalli · Answer

Actually not enough. They do far more work than what they get paid for. My mom only stopped work to eat dinner and sleep.

zagor · Answer

Unfortunately many graduate with so much debt that they can't afford not to be money-grubbers.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

They're paid too much. But their medical school tuition is also way too high.

Yaharro · Answer

I think they get paid accordingly since patients can choose the services It's fair

Anonymous · Answer

doesn't matter, it also costs them a fortune to become doctors and a long time to pay it off so its not the big number that you see especially after tax in that bracket

Anonymous · Answer

They're paid so much because they've managed to protect the market from people entering it. One of the nasty lessons of the pandemic is NOT how doctors are such heros, but how their monopolistic power has caused all kinds of problems for society.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

For what little they do, they are grossly over-paid!!

gag2021 · Answer

When medical doctors are saving lives you can't put a price on that!

OddBeMe · Answer

Which doctors? Cosmetic? To much. ER doctors? Not enough.

xXstrangermae · Answer

They have very important jobs so I think is close to perfect

PAnurse · Answer

Umm what about nurses. I feel we deserve a pay increase

Anonymous · Answer

I think they get paid well, but veterinarians don’t. Their student loan debt is $200-350K but they make $80-110K per year.

eagle1951 · Answer

during covid not enough during normal times too much

Fukaroo · Answer

Yeah never heard of a doctor actually helping someone for the long term.

Anonymous · Answer

They are paid enough.  They picked the smart college degree

SanjanaReema · Answer

No. But nurses should be paid more.

VImhh · Answer

Doctors are idoits and know nothing they should be paid nothing.

m33lad · Answer

Once a Wiseman said if you’re not your own doctor you are a fool.

ICanHazHelp · Answer

Paid too little to be honest.

Gwenhwyfar · Answer

They’re not paid too much. Neither are lawyers.

Subarugirl · Answer

I think that lot of them aren't paid enough!

es20490446e · Answer

I don't have enough data to judge.

Browneye57 · Answer

Some make more than others. They've earned it.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

They definitely are worth their salary.

888theGreat · Answer

not as much as ball players

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