Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s

[NOSfan]

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/sunday-review/do

ctors-salaries-are-not-the-big-cost.html?_r=0

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[Stim4me]

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/sunday-review/do

ctors-salaries-are-not-the-big-cost.html?_r=0

It's all rigged...

 

[deleted185747]

what would the graph look like if it took all CEO's pay combined vs all doctors pay combined? There are a ton more doctors and would likely make up 80% or more of that 2 slice pie.

 

[MrChance2]

so docs make less money than people in charge of billion dollar corporations with thousands of employees?

 

[DrCommonSense]

what would the graph look like if it took all CEO's pay combined vs all doctors pay combined? There are a ton more doctors and would likely make up 80% or more of that 2 slice pie.

Don't know the exact amount for CEOs but administration in general costs 25% of total healthcare costs vs 6% for physician salaries.

Funny how we always need to "cut back" but continue to increase the number of administrators to physicians, particularly ones with zero contact with patients.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown...so-much-in-america-ask-harvards-david-cutler/

 

[SSdoc33]

administrators and the "business" side of medicine are taking WAY too big a slice. the bureaucracy is overwhelming.

then again.... how many of us make 185k?

 

[Psai]

Wow how does an audiologist make 72k

 

[bedrock]

Wow how does an audiologist make 72k

Requires a graduate degree.

 

[nvrsumr]

The ceo base salaries are likely a small percentage of total compensation.

 

[Stim4me]

The ceo base salaries are likely a small percentage of total compensation.

Four hospital ceos around me make over 3 million each... that's a lot of pcps and audiologist salaries....

 

[DrCommonSense]

Four hospital ceos around me make over 3 million each... that's a lot of pcps and audiologist salaries....

Yeah but you have to understand, he sees the "big picture" and is "saving money" for the system!

He deserves to be paid MILLIONS for brilliant cost efficiency parameters.

What would the stupid physicians do without him? Those *****s can't even tie shoes.

 

[NOSfan]

so docs make less money than people in charge of billion dollar corporations with thousands of employees?

Yes, the physicians that handle the most precious commodity there is, one's life, make less than the administrators.

 

[hyperalgesia]

Yeah but you have to understand, he sees the "big picture" and is "saving money" for the system!

He deserves to be paid MILLIONS for brilliant cost efficiency parameters.

What would the stupid physicians do without him? Those *****s can't even tie shoes.

The main thing he gets paid for its to supervise other admin staff, who supervise other admin staff...

 

[deleted185747]

When a hospital CEO gets sick they go to a different hospital system and don't tell the doctors who they are.

 

[Psai]

Requires a graduate degree.

Since when does a degree equal high pay lol

 

[The Psai]

Wow how does an audiologist make 72k

Pharmacists make $108K.

 

[SeniorWrangler]

In related news, casino owners make more money than either blackjack dealers or blackjack players, even card counters.