Re: Canadian doctors coming to the US

From: dahmd (dahmd_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 03:06:17 GMT

"George Conklin" <nilknoc@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "dahmd" <dahmd@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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> How much should physicians make? Is a heart surgeon who does 600
> > major heart surgeries a year "worth" 500K a year (given that the CEO of
> > Cigna made something like 27 million last year.
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> Cigna has thousands of clerks making $25,000. One person makes a lot.
> In medicine, EVERYONE does very well. If all the clerks made $200,000 a
> year, then guess what the fees would be? Less than now?
>

Good point, although "doing well" is subjective, and there are many
physicians in our area who are contemplating career changes. The cost of
malpractice insurance is so high that many cannot continue providing certain
services (for example, the average cost for malpractice coverage in Miami is
over 200,000 a year for ob/gyn physicians. Further, several female primary
care physicians (peds, internal medicine, family medicine) in our area have
quite medicine because they made less than the cost of child care. Try
getting a high school student to dedicate 80-90 hours a week through
college, medical school, residency and practice for the next 45 years for
less than 100K a year (once in practice). There are pharmaceutical reps in
our area who make much more than pediatricians and psychiatrists. Come to
think of it, I have not seen you mention what an appropriate annual, average
salary should be for specific physicians, such as family physicians, general
surgeons, and cardiac surgeons.

Ashley

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