In my country, the UK, our national health service has always worked junior doctors extremely hard. Pay is OK, but not amazing.
However as a junior doctor progresses, they are able to work less and over time, perhaps after10 years, they start to earn a good salary.
Senior doctors in the UK in the NHS can earn up to 250,000 GBP per annum ($300,000 USD).
Doctors in the UK in the private sector can earn perhaps double that, however the private sector is less challenging and so doctors are less experienced and so earn less as a result, more or less evening up the pay gap.
My wife was a podiatrist and service manager in the NHS (she has just moved jobs for the first time in her life). Her salary was OK, but not amazing, but the work was challenging.
The NHS is a soft employer, meaning you are very unlikely to be fired (compared to private industry). It therefore attracts a lot of people that hope for an easy work life.
Our national health service is struggling, primarily because of an aging population.
For example, my father has alzheimer's and is in a care home. He interacts with the NHS about once a month, yet I, currently in my 50's have seen a doctor about 3 times in my adult life.
mike
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