As much as Diane Rehm usually irritates the ba-jeebus out of me, it was really refreshing today to hear her interviewee/commentators emphasize the great disparity in physician incomes, with "some nurse might do really well while the pediatrician may be just trying to scrap by," and "should equalize physician incomes...elevate some so that some aren't starving and [decrease others] so they don't have ten vacation homes." They also mentioned that although docs on average make more money than their colleagues in other countries, in America we do not have the medical education subsidies, and doctors leave school "100 to 200 thousand dollars in debt." FINALLY, some decent press.
