Gastroenterologists making less than golf instructors?

So says this physician on why Florida gastroenterologists are leaving in droves:

None of the colleagues who I know makes $350,000 a year. At an average of a 60-hour work week for 48 weeks a year, that is about $100 an hour, or a little more than a plumber or electrician makes, but less than your average professional golf instructor makes. We still take emergency calls and treat the indigent.

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