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Neighbour is an NHS manager. I don't know for sure he earns £300k, but that's how much goes through the practice when he was the only doctor.
And to redundant: why would I be trying to piss you off? I'm just saying that the picture you paint of hard done by doctors doesn't reflect at least in my local village practice.
So... out of that he would have to pay for any/all staff, the property etc etc etc.
£300k going through a business doesn't mean the person who owns the business takes home that total amount etc.
That's fair enough. But it's weird how to work it out. On the one hand our doctor friend here is saying that salaries are grossly over exaggerated (by x2 according to his calculation? I think..), on the other there is a lot of money going to this doctor to run his surgery, but as you pointed out he can spend that money on things like his car, or whatever. He lives next door btw ^^ yet parks his car next to the surgery. I don't know about his newer doctor...
There certainly seems to be a discrepancy. I don't know exactly how doctors surgeries are run, but I'm getting the picture it's a bit like a small business. I.e. you might have a salaried income, but your actual spending power is greater because you can buy things through the company. Still, ~£50k salary for a GP doesn't seem to ring true...
http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/Pressinfobriefingconsultant
http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/details/Default.aspx?Id=553
So it's all a bit of a fiddle really. If you work in any public sector according to economics you are officially underpaid anyway although I can't remember exactly why. Some doctors earn a lot more than others because they're making profits from their surgeries. I don't know how a doctor makes money in a surgery anyway...
Still, that management consulting job I won't get (too competitive) starts with 60 hour weeks with a salary of around £20-£26k (depending on location). And that's going into one of the top tiers of the private sector which will pay more. If doctors are good enough they can go private and be absolutely minted
I was a surgeon for several years and went through all the exams and bullsh*t before I decided GP land was a better place because the goverment made it look attractive. I thought it was going to be great. Now in August when I become fully qualified I can look forward to getting paid less than I am now, difficulty getting a job for about the billionth time since qualifying and struggling to pay my mortgage because the goverment is to trying to change the whole of GP again and worse still everyone thinks I'm a millionaire playing golf everyday. Not that I'm doing too badly compared to some but I certainly don't think I'm having an easy ride compared to similar professionals.
I didn't sign up to do medicine to be a business manager or to just do private work. My partner works as a doctor in a drug company and gets paid a good wage but i couldn't stand it myself.
You quote a manager job 60 + hours a week . I don't think thats legal under the new European Working Time directive. I could be wrong. Also the wage you quote isn't too different to a junior doctor before banding for overtime
What about your drugs?
I'm afraid I've no opiates for sale, I only give them out to chronic pain or cancer patients. Before you ask psychological pain doesn't count !! Try some green tea instead or acupuncture.
Fair enough, where my friend works of course there are secret things but they publicly say to their shareholders or what not what kinds of areas they're focusing on, each company has a slightly different focus... it's quite interesting actually, the pharmaceutical side.
Oh well ...green tea it is then ...i've gone off needles.