David,
I just read your post, and I am confused. I don't remember those snarky comments. I don't think I would look at it like you got rich so now you can live in some tropical island.
I think your offer was incredible. I thought about. I imagine many thought about it. Especially those who knew you the way a lot of us know you. Sure, I whine all the time. I would have to say that, all in all, I hate my job. I get thanked every day. At least two out of the 25 to 30 I "HAVE" to see every day. I would much rather make more money and have it a lot better in Alaska. It's not like I was in Florida and had to decide between hell in Maine or paradise in Alaska. There is just something called inertia. The rat race. The "hard to change what you are doing." The can't see 30 days down the road, because you are at the office until 11 pm finishing charts.
So, I think MANY thought about it. Just like I think about it when I get an email telling me there is a job in Austin, TX paying $280,000 a year, six weeks vacation, four days a week, no call, full benefits and all loans paid. But, it is hard to leave a practice you have built over ten years. 2,000 patients who consider you "their child's doctor" until they are 18.
I respect the hell out of what you did.
