Comments on: Are academic physicians the next target on the inflated executive salary hit list?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:58:00 +0000

As soon as you decide how much someone else’s job is worth, then watch out, because someone else, who has no experience in YOUR job, is going to decide how much YOU should make.

I thought high salaries were something to aspire to, not berate and belittle. Even docs lower on the payscale are feeling entitled, now? How discouraging.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:34:00 +0000

This issue is a little more complicated. The original article lists David Silver as a dermatologist whereas he is, in fact, a dermatopathologist with a large referral practice. He is paid a consulting fee per case paid by the health insurance of the patient from whom the specimen is obtained. It is not unusual for a dermatopathologist to “read” 500 or more cases per day because the specimens are small and fall into a well known and small set of categories.

By: Bad Medicine, Good Solutions

Bad Medicine, Good Solutions — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:14:00 +0000

ANON,

You forget! Obamessiah has declared an open season on class warfare. Comrade, we are now the USSA. It is impermissable to be compensated for one’s labor. Did you not get the memo? You know, the one about change? How once Obamessiah is done, all we’ll have is change in our pockets…

By: Buckeye Surgeon

Buckeye Surgeon — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:11:00 +0000

It’s ridiculous how much tax-payer money academic physicians make! We’re appalled!

Sincerely,
Jim Tressel, Urban Meyer, and Rick Pitino

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:34:00 +0000

Oh my, salary envy srikes again on Kevin’s blog. If professional athletes can rake in upwards of 10 million/year, then it certainly is fair that successful physicians can make even a fraction of that. Has everyone forgotten that we live in a free, capitalistic society?