I think its similar worldwide. Like I said my brother quit. Its also true that IT people are ridiculously overpaid. Both problems will inevitably revert to the mean.
It is not that IT is overpaid, it is that doctors are underpaid - at least in France.
We are the world champions of strikes and yet, somehow, doctors rarely go on strike. I do not know why.
They also know where they are going, it is not like they discover the world of medicine after 8 or 10 years.
I am happy that they are people who want to help others, but they also need to eat, sleep and party. Nobody will give them that if they do not protest.
Regarding doctors strikes, I asked the question to multiple ones and the few explanations I got are : - they are deeply regulated and organized, they rely more on acting behind the scenes (lobbying) than going public in the streets - they still have a comfortable situation that they chose ; unlike blue-collar workers who can barely afford food/housing and have to take what job and salary is offered to them ; a GP can move to a private hospital if they want more money and less hours - even though they are organized, they have much more individualistic views of their job than labor workers ; after all they mostly are their own company
EDIT: I just looked up some numbers and you are right, MDs get about 5000€ net pour month in average, which is higher than IT
Poland chiming in. Nobody will give them that even when they go out and protest.
When talking about public healthcare, strikes mean little. State won't care unless the strike is massive enough to attract media attention. Hospitals can't close down, a "safe" minimum of workers must care for patients so not a big problem for the state generally.
The doctors in Nicaragua, the neighboring country, is as described in your comment, except the economy of the whole country is in shambles, and they also have to "voluntarily" participate in "government" political activities. Oh, and since the country is poor there are no immigrants waiting in line to fulfill those positions.
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/f8ac5867-en/index.html?i...
So high wait times there doesn't sound entirely perfect either.
Cost of medical treatment and holidays included still cheaper than America?
Fits perfectly for non-emergencies.
Hard disagree here. I don't feel I need to state the reasons. If much of a business relies upon technology that the IT people ensure is up and running for the non-IT folk, I would say that is not overpaid.
This is such a shallow opinion with no forethought into the domino effect. I won't try to make a commentary on doctors, because I am not a doctor and don't pretend to say that "doctors are ridiculously overpaid" because I know it would be a wasteful opinion that does nothing for the conversation.