physician salaries

[itimebomb2]

Man there are a lot of RNs making as much as psychologists and scientists out there...

[rmorelan]

Man there are a lot of RNs making as much as psychologists and scientists out there...

 

Sure, quite common particularly with overtime etc. The high earners I know of those really work their ass off to get it though.

[future_doc]

The salaries they show from MOTP are most interersting, as are the benefits, incl vacation and pension.

[AKY]

23,000 patients seems unlikely but perhaps possible if he was running a walk-in clinic. Someone who I know (not sure how easily people can find your identity on the internet, but in order to protect the individual I won't say anything more) has seen 100-120 people on average in each of the 2 days he works in a walk-in clinic. He works elsewhere for the rest of the week, so I imagine if he worked at the clinic full-time then there would be less patients coming to see him. However, he is very popular in the area, so a lot of patients will purposefully coming in on his shift.

 

After working with the same team at a clinic over 20 years you can achieve this efficiency, and I can assure you that he is not 'sloppy' in his practice.

 

Just to work out the math, lets say he saw 100 patients a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks of the year. This is 25,000 patients a year. Obviously a lot of these would be repeat patients, so if he did indeed work 5 days a week then he wouldn't be servicing 25,000 people.

 

So. The point of my story was that it is potentially possible, although I would say that a burnout is going to come pretty quickly at this pace.

[C2U2]

Sometimes hard to find as a lot of doctors are not salaried at all and run their own businesses (and bill the government) - although there are a lot more service agreement strategies now for FM.

 

The list of provided each year in Ontario for those earning over 100,000 dollars (as a side note I really hate that list, seems like quite the invasion of privacy) gives some idea for a select few areas. Here it is:

 

http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/publications/salarydisclosure/2009/hospit09.html

 

I will reinforces what sfinch said - first and foremost if you are doctor in any area you are paid quite well. Ever single doctor I have run into at Western as said the same thing.

 

Even FM (traditionally one of the worst paid) are now making quite a bit (well over 200,000). now that is less than a specialist perhaps, but they generally working a hell of a lot less hours. I think 250,000+ (and that + was for extreme doctors a lot) was the estimate one of our "why FM sessions?" and that was with a standard 9-5 with Friday afternoons off (Golf time perhaps? ) and doing the call thing one in 70. The government has finally stepped up to support FM.

 

 

 

Some RNs are making more than physicians. How is that possible? Can someone explain?

[cnb88]

Some RNs are making more than physicians. How is that possible? Can someone explain?

 

Some are considered half (or 3/4 time) and if there are shifts that need to be picked up (which there always are because of the nursing shortage) over and above their hired 1/2 or 3/4 time, they get paid double time for those hours. So if you are 3/4 time and pick up lots of extra shifts (like some younger ones do) you can make pretty good coin... $40 hour base, plus double overtime... $80 an hour isn't bad. Plus if your overtime falls on a stat, I believe that would be min. 2.5 or triple time (Meaning like $100 an hour minimum on those days... plus if you are conisdered 3/4 time you get benefits and of course as a nurse, have no overhead).

That's how.