The Highest-Paid Medical Jobs

These people earn whatever they earn.. You should be outraged by what basket ball players make. These morally corrupt excuses for humans do nothing for our populace and don't even play a full year and football players who have dog righting and such. Doctors take years of education and are not passed onto the next class because the coach says so. I wish I could work just a few days of the year and make that kind of money because they can play a kids game well... Get real the ball players produce nothing act like jerks and think the world must praise them.

I appreciate the concern which is been rose. The things need to be sorted out because it is about the individual but it can be with everyone
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Abby, Comparing the four years of undergraduate a teachers takes (making collages, fabricating teaching plans, taking blow-off classes) vs. the four years of straight A's" a physician must have in natural sciences ....it is beyond ridiculous. The teachers I went to school with never studied and still were given good grades. They are among our poorest educated.

I never realized how very committed many physicians are until I dated a few. I have seen a neurosurgeon called out at all hours of the night because he was needed after a car accident, his life was never his own, he was always on call for others. I dated a cardiologist who was one of the nicest men I ever knew, and his patients loved him too. He saved many lives. I have been with him at dinner when people would come over and tell him how grateful they were for the care a relative received. Many of these people lived in poverty to go thru years of school. They deserve whatever they make! By the way, there are many occupations that make more than the average physicians salary, and yet you rarely hear a lot of complaining regarding them.

The joke is DF, you can't read. I didn't say anything about being "good" teachers, simply that their education qualified them to teach.

Lets try it again, slowly. All Dr's can teach, NO teachers can doctor. Good or bad is irrelevant, especially when it comes to teaching.

Doctors can be fired for incompetance, teachers can't.

Again, it's a no-brainer regarding the salary disparigy.

Read carefully before commenting this time. Save yourself some embarrassment.

Don,
As I happen to be one of those teachers you are talking about, couple quick things. No, I don't get to retire at 50, actually the age is 62 in CA, and your right, can be as much as 90% of salary. Though,that will be almost 35 years of paying into a retirement system. As far as social security goes, you may want to check your facts, I can't collect social security. The almost 10 years I spent paying into it I never get back. We are not allowed to receive both no matter what we paid into social security. If you would like to know who gets the best of both worlds, retires at 50 with almost 100% of their salary and usually does not have to worry about paying back those huge student loans, check out some of the jobs in the public sector ( not educational ). Fact is, most of us are working are as... off and it is about time that those that aren't, are no longer given a free ride.

DF...I am looking at the Pennsylvania teacher salaries website right now. Our highest paid elementary grades 4-6 teacher makes 90,000 with a master's degree and 30 years experience. There is a teacher with 19 years experience and a bachelor's degree making 81,980. There is a middle school art teacher making 90,800. So yes, teacher's in pennsylvania do make that kind of money. Google teacher salaries in pennsylvania. They are all listed.

Jerome,
Yes we do need health care reform. However, Obama's current plan will affect every aspect of health care except one ... the lawyers and malpractice. Malpractice and legal costs are some of the biggest contribitors to rising health care costs. Everything I have read about this plan address how doctors, hospitals, insurers, employers, patients, etc. willbe affected. There is no mention of tort/malpractice reform. With that said the plan is doomed to failure. Every country that has a successful universal/government health care system has some form of tort reform. This is not all about the greed of doctor's, you need to look at the greed of lawyer's as well. Additionally, lawyers pay malpractice premiums of a few thousand dollars a year, not upwards of over 6 figures as some doctors do.

The doctors are worth eavery penny. If lawyers which are mostly bankers or politicians had to pay the amount to go to school doctors did and malpractice insurance premiums you could not afford one lawyer. look how much they are overpaid now!!!

Gail,
You are correct. I have the greatest respect for special education teachers. I lasted 7 days in an attempt to reach special ed. kids. I have little respect for math and science teachers who majored in education. They just lack the knowledge of the subject that they majored in! I agree that there are highly competent teachers in their subject matter e.g., math and science and cannot communicate to their students. And I agree, they too should not be in the class-room! I apologize for the word "stupid".