As indicated by this recent survey. Well, don’t complain when you get what you pay for:
Unfortunately, only 50% felt that a primary care physician should make at least $180,000. This pales in comparison to most other specialties and is the reason for the death of primary care.1/3 believed that the primary care physician was only worth $140,000 a year. Again, an unreasonable expectation when specialties offer a vastly superior reimbursement tree. Unmanaged expectations shows its ugly head again.
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The “public” has a not insubstantial sub-population of envious neuronally deficients.
God will punish those that are thus afflicted by giving them exactly what they are seeking.
Ed Sodaro MD
People will get no more than what they pay for, ultimately. If the majority of the public thinks primary care doctors are greedy epiphytes who needlessly demand payment, then they will see what they get when they don’t pay for services.
No surprises there for anyone inclined to use the brain for thinking.
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