Doctors are paid by the patients that they treat. As an emergency physician, I treat 20-25 patients per shift on average and I am paid by approximately half of them due to not having insurance or money to pay for my services. I am paid roughly $120 per patient. Is that excessive in your opinion?

I would say that doctors in other countries are not paid accordingly and are UNDER-paid. See the UK NHS strikes as an example.

You should be complaining about is the excessive charges and reimbursement that hospitals receive for the care that they give. It gives me pause that despite having multiple physicians in your family that you do not understand the difficulty of their practice or work environment.

Most white collars jobs including doctors, engineers, and administrators make multiples of our European counterparts. I would say that Europe underpays its workers.

Again, I am a highly paid worker just like the rest of you. If I don’t work and treat patients then I am not paid anything whatsoever.

I would be further much ahead financially if I had stuck to being an engineer 18 years ago and not have put off earning an income for 7 years and going into massive debt. This was a risk because I come from a blue collar, lower middle class background without a safety net.

What is the point of your diatribe?