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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Physician's Incomes
- Message-ID: <17940@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 18:01:38 GMT
- Article-I.D.: pitt.17940
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- In article <1992Dec21.202036.29673@eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:
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- >I'd like to know why none of the physicians that I follow in sci.med have
- >never once participated in the newsgroup, misc.invest. Aren't you people
- >with big paychecks interested in investing?
- >
- Probably because none of us have incomes of $120K. Most of us
- are academic types who will probably never see our income top $120K
- barring becoming a chairman of a department or runaway inflation.
- I'd need a 50% raise to get to that point.
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- >If I made $120k+ salary, I'd be drooling over the Wall Street Journal
- >every day.
-
- I think most of us are in medicine for the intellectual interest
- and not for the money. Money doesn't interest us that much.
- Otherwise, why would we be wasting our time on the net where
- there is no money to be made at all? It would be inconceivable
- for someone in private practice who could make more than $100/hr
- profit by seeing more patients to be answering questions for
- free here, wouldn't it?
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