I'm getting irritated. Dude, people like you ignoring the money talk is precisely why physicians won't do anything for the declining reimbursements and soon the US doctor salaries will equalize the horrendous 60k/year salaries in Europe. We have families to feed, colleges to fund, retirement to contribute to, debts to pay after all these slave years. If I read your comment between the lines these things mean nothing to you. Are you a European socialist or something?
Regarding the hospitalist question. I think that any US doctor should make at least the lower end of the average salary calculated from the same quantity of physicians in the US as there are in the fields outside of academia, in the same area of the circle i described earlier. That roughly comes down to 15 million USD per year. If this is an eye-opener for you, then you probably never realized how overpaid those folks that irriate me to the teeth actually make. Best part is when they claim they go bankrupt. Stupid lucky idiots they are.
Also, you can't just look at the physician salary and be like ohh, that's great. No, it isn't. You have to be considerate of the effort put into whatever that lead to that money. 250k a year in passive income? That's outstanding! 250k a year as an actively working physician? Dude, that stinks. I'll be lucky to have money for noodles after my monthly pays for my 500k+ med school debt, retirement contributions and other essential expenses.