Paramedics/first responders save lives too, in scenes just as dramatic or more as yours. Is being a paramedic 'high status'? No it's not. Look I'm not here to t

Paramedics/first responders save lives too, in scenes just as dramatic or more as yours. Is being a paramedic 'high status'? No it's not. Look I'm not here to tell you or anyone anything about how useful or stressful their jobs are; hell I mean I sit at a desk all day writimg code that'll be run by 10 people ever if I'm lucky. What I'm saying is that status doesn't depend on any of that, or on how hard you work, or on how hard you studied. I'm not making any claims about whether that's right or not either, just describing reality. Or how about this - does your boss still do the things you describe? If your hospital is medium sized or bigger, he spends half his day pushing paper and the other half controlling petty infighting between the surgeons. Yet is his job lower status than yours? Would getting his job, for you, be a demotion or a promotion? Seems to me the answers are pretty obvious.