Yes and no. You are forgetting unpaid (compulsory) on-call work and the necessity to pay administrative staff if you want to work full-time (the amount of paper

Yes and no. You are forgetting unpaid (compulsory) on-call work and the necessity to pay administrative staff if you want to work full-time (the amount of papers is such that you can't do without). So far from the breadline on objective criteria, yes. Far enough that people wouldn't do anything to work in another specialty or do something where you have a better lifestyle, no. So GPs are usually not doing that by choice.