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- From: km@ky3b.pgh.pa.us (Ken Mitchum)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Physician's Incomes
- Message-ID: <157@ky3b.UUCP>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:40:56 GMT
- References: <51745@seismo.CSS.GOV> <lle1ohINN72k@tokio.cs.utexas.edu>
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- In article <lle1ohINN72k@tokio.cs.utexas.edu>, turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
- |> -*----
- |> In article <qpa3f1c@rpi.edu> whangj@vccnw04.its.rpi.edu (Junho Whang) writes:
- |> > It's always very puzzling (if I assume a modicum of fairness),
- |> > why doctors always gripe about their salary? ...
- |>
- |> I have yet to see a physician here start a thread to gripe about
- |> their salary. Rather, I see defensiveness when physicians'
- |> salaries are raised as an issue by other people. Somehow, I
- |> suspect if you went into any newsgroup and said of a related
- |> profession that its members were paid too much that you would
- |> find quite a few posters quick to correct any odd data and to
- |> defend what they do make.
- |>
- |> Russell
-
- Actually, I think I posted sometime back in response to something that I considered
- my own salary appropriate. I am on a salary, which is not the norm for physicians.
- I think some physicians are grossly overpaid for some things, and some physicians are
- grossly underpaid for what they do. When you consider that physicians' incomes in the
- U.S. (not counting residents and interns) vary from about $45K to $1M, it is obvious
- you are not talking about a homogenous group.
-
- -km
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