What I was trying to get across was that primary care docs are so low paid that my "new" job in Health IT pays more than my job as a family physician - which, it should not.
My point was that physicians and other providers work their assess off for paitents, worry about their diagnoses (or what we may have missed), strive to act responsibly, ethically, caringly - day in and day out (and afterhours too). The stress of being the primary care provider is real, signficant, and deserves reasonable compensation.
To get compensated less than a programmer, broker, plumber, etc., is not only unfair and unreasonable - it is frankly ludicrous. It seems so obvious that our society should value it's clinicians (and educators/teachers too, btw) moreso than valuing other sorts of jobs that don't, literally, make the difference between life and death?
Anyway, I was trying to be sardonic during the interview. That didn't come across. (The risk of doing interviews is that you can come across as an asshole.)
Oh well.
