Plan A

[ace00]

We're in the wrong business

Bonuses for doctors: How GPs are earning up to £380,000 a year... and £200 an hour...........

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ar--hours-doctors-200-hour.html#ixzz0NCIoiIGA

 

[BrilloPad]

Were the daily wail right (and somehow I doubt they are) I would not begrudge doctors the money. How a banker or MP can earn more than them is astonishing.

Most people would become a doctor if intelligent enough.

Even if I was intelligent enough I would hate the pressure that 1 mistake could cost a life.

 

[DimPrawn]

My problem with this is it only applies to GP's and not other medical professions.

How a GP sitting in an office looking at people with sore throats justifies this sort of money is beyond me when medical staff at hospitals are paid a fraction of this amount.

 

[NotAllThere]

Having had the chance to compare GPs in the UK, with those in Switzerland, I can tell you the that GPs in the UK are better. They've more experience, because they have a larger "client base" and see a more diverse range of conditions. ( It's for this reason that British trained nurses are in demand overseas - not just because of the uniform ).

 

[TroubleAtMill]

I think I heard on the radio that some of the increase is due to them being paid for weekend work, where previously they weren't.

I may be wrong but aren't most GPs also self-employed and have to pay for the running of their surgeries?

 

[realityhack]

WbrillopadS

If doctors can earn that much then good on 'em.

The balance of earnings in this country is all wrong. It makes no sense that useless corporate middle management tw@ts can earn more than medical professionals, teaching staff, technical experts, scientists and the like.

 

[sasguru]

We're in the wrong business

You're too stupid to be a doctor anyway.

HTH

 

[d000hg]

Not this again, we did it to death only recently. Some news story sensationalises the fact a few docs earn a lot, which outrages those with 'real' jobs like bin-men and truck drivers.

Even bitching about Barclay's profits and bonuses would be less dull.

 

[Amiga500]

WbrillopadS

If doctors can earn that much then good on 'em.

The balance of earnings in this country is all wrong. It makes no sense that useless corporate middle management tw@ts can earn more than medical professionals, teaching staff, technical experts, scientists and the like.

As Dale Carnegie say's, research has proven that any job is really 85% people skills and 15% technical knowledge.

Charles Schwab was earning over a million dollars a year back in the days when 50 dollars a week was thought high pay. He admitted many of his colleagues had better technical knowledge of the steel manufacture process than him, but he knew how to praise, encourage and motivate people.

Being extremely technical and having worked for many years with Microsoft, I am now having this people skills revelation.

 

[expat]

Were the daily wail right (and somehow I doubt they are) I would not begrudge doctors the money. How a banker or MP can earn more than them is astonishing.

Most people would become a doctor if intelligent enough.

Even if I was intelligent enough I would hate the pressure that 1 mistake could cost a life.

It's not a case of "intelligent enough", it's all the rest. the intelligence required to be a GP is not that high, I'd guess not as high as e.g. the average maths teacher's. I do remember my uni maths dept having a course of maths for medics, which was not exactly highly regarded by the real maths students!

I am not running down doctors, rather mentioning the idea that it's not intelligence that does it. Indeed, intelligence is not much valued in money terms. There may be nothing wrong with this. What is worse is that intelligence is not much valued at all.