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Doctors are paid the same as software engineers for a job that is like 10x as hard. MBA hospital administrators have greed as their official main job responsib
by woooooo 3y ago
Doctors are paid the same as software engineers for a job that is like 10x as hard.
MBA hospital administrators have greed as their official main job responsibility.
- qwytw 3y agoOn average they seem seem to be paid quite a bit more (at least by 2x?).
- Ledienejid 3y agoResearch shows that nurses have outcomes comparable to do those of doctors. It's not 10x as hard as SWE, don't buy into that. Plus, thats irrelevant, doctors supply is limited artificially and for no good reasons. The main culprit of high costs are is the insurance companies greed, but doctors are far from being blameless.
- FireBeyond 3y ago> Doctors are paid the same as software engineers The average physician salary in 2023 is $352K. I wouldn't say that.
- analog31 3y agoAre salaries the only source of income that they derive from the medical industry? My doctor is a part owner of his provider network which also is the insurer.
- FireBeyond 3y agoDon't even start me on diagnostic imaging. The big DI manufacturers have consulting arms that will help physicians with financing to buy CTs, MRI, PET, that will help them obtain Certificates of Need. And having a hard time finding it now, but physicians who own a share in a DI lab tend to refer their patients for imaging far more generously than those who don't...