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0 pointsalkonaut9y ago0 comments

US doctors are paid more because they take risks (they have expensive education, handle expensive treatments etc)

If an MD cost zero to get, doctors would still be paid well, but not crazy well.

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vacri9y ago· 1 in thread

'handle expensive treatments'? What, unlike doctors everywhere else? Apart from the education costs, what is different?

The US also takes in a lot of foreign-trained doctors, who don't have those same education costs.

alkonautOP9y ago

The costs involved are higher (though or course of the same magnitude), but money seems ever present e.g the concept of malpractice insurance.

Foreign doctors can certainly help lower salaries for doctors but they need to be a large fraction, if they are a small fraction they'll just enjoy the high salaries of their US educated peers.

srean9y ago

I will believe it a little bit more once the number of people who has the right to practice is not artificially capped.

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