Thinking about dropping out of medical school now....

[circulus vitios]

Doctors can make out well under a socialized medical system if they work with the government to design a system that rewards physicians.

But they won't -- they will continue acting like idiots with their heads in the sand, denying the inevitability of socialized medicine.

Twenty years from now, today's pre-meds, medical students, residents, and young physicians will wonder why it all went wrong.

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[hapticity]

Found the 2011 British Columbia billings: http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/legislation/pdf/bluebook2011.pdf

search the names here to find out which specialties they go with: https://www.cpsbc.ca/node/264

My old family doc billed $454,809.82 His practice is in downtown Vancouver.

I chose some doctors that I know from the list. All work at the same Vancouver hospital.

Cardiac Anesthesiologist at my old hospital: $561,692.79

OB who delivered my best friend's baby: $634,236.47

Cardiologist (electrophysiology specialist): $703,938.32

Cardiologist (heart failure specialist): $690,000.54

Cardiac Surgeon: $550,852.16

I asked an anesthesiologist how much he pays in malpractice insurance a year once. His answer. $1000.

Universal health care sounds terrible.

Cool story bro... billing =! pre-tax net income. Also, universal health care means people right now have a lot of trouble finding positions in major, highly-desirable Canadian urban centers like Vancouver. Sure, being a doctor in Canada is pretty comfy and awesome once you make it asa n attending, but you also sound pretty uninformed about the realities of the Canadian health care system for people who are actually trying to find jobs.

 

[SpecterGT260]

Cool story bro... billing =! pre-tax net income. Also, universal health care means people right now have a lot of trouble finding positions in major, highly-desirable Canadian urban centers like Vancouver. Sure, being a doctor in Canada is pretty comfy and awesome once you make it asa n attending, but you also sound pretty uninformed about the realities of the Canadian health care system for people who are actually trying to find jobs.

It isn't even that.... what a doctor bills out is income for the practice....

 

[xf3rn4nd3sx]

Yeah billings are typically before overhead. Salaries as a whole seem generally lower. It's easy to pick out outliers here and there and make assumptions, but there appear to be many doing far below average U.S. salaries (especially if this is before overhead). Oddly, ophthalmologists and cardiologists appear to be the only ones balling... with many in the 7 figure range (one I saw over $2m on the website provided).