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- From: km@ky3b.pgh.pa.us (Ken Mitchum)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Physician's Incomes
- Keywords: income
- Message-ID: <136@ky3b.UUCP>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 23:49:29 GMT
- References: <gdavis.724433998@griffin>
- Sender: news@pgh.pa.us
- Organization: KY3B - Vax Pittsburgh, PA
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- In article <gdavis.724433998@griffin>, gdavis@griffin.uvm.edu (Gary Davis) writes:
-
- |> Perhaps some physcians could give us an approximate picture of
- |> how long neophyte MDs must be trained after they acquire their
- |> academic degrees.
- |>
- |> In any event 120,000 per annum
-
- Almost exactly my salary, and I make less than the average physician.
-
- The minimum training after medical school would be three years. Surgical specialties
- can easily run six to eight years. Medical specialties probably average around five
- years total.
-
- I am not going to get into a big argument with others here regarding whether physicians
- are worth what they make or not. I think I am worth what I make. I don't think some
- surgical specialists making $800K a year are worth what they make. For the patients
- whose lives I've saved, I am a bargain. For those whose diagnoses I've missed, I'm
- not.
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- -km
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