Doctors are the new bankers

I have no problem with doctors earning that, however my views are different for dentists.

654 dentists earn over 250k a year, and I can't afford to go to the dentist where I live..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/aug/04/dentists-earnings-income

I would agree that a GP earning 380K would have to own the surgery to earn that amount. But i still think its a ridiculous amount of money seeing as they don't have the same responsibility as hospital consultants; they refer patients on if they don't understand the cause of the symptoms, basically leaving it to a specialist consultant to diagnose, but if the consultant is still unsure then there is no passing the buck. My dads a manager in the NHS and there are doctors that he is managerially responsible to that are earning >£300k as they do 80% private work and 20% NHS work, some of them even do 3 days a week and are still earning these vast sums. However, managers in the NHS won't speak up against the doctors shrewd tactics as they would damage their own career and the public image of doctors is that they can never be seen to be doing wrong. I would imagine that in a few years time the public will understand what goes on behind closed doors in the NHS and how money hungry these doctors are.

I would agree that a GP earning 380K would have to own the surgery to earn that amount. But i still think its a ridiculous amount of money seeing as they don't have the same responsibility as hospital consultants; they refer patients on if they don't understand the cause of the symptoms, basically leaving it to a specialist consultant to diagnose, but if the consultant is still unsure then there is no passing the buck. My dads a manager in the NHS and there are doctors that he is managerially responsible to that are earning >£300k as they do 80% private work and 20% NHS work, some of them even do 3 days a week and are still earning these vast sums. However, managers in the NHS won't speak up against the doctors shrewd tactics as they would damage their own career and the public image of doctors is that they can never be seen to be doing wrong. I would imagine that in a few years time the public will understand what goes on behind closed doors in the NHS and how money hungry these doctors are.

Top-tier clinical biochemists (as well as microbiologists and other assorted quacks) working for the NHS earn over £90k. I know which job I'd prefer.

If they are earning £300k, 80% Private and 20% NHS £240k of that is coming from private funds, that means its none of anyone elses business how much they get paid (in regards to that 80% atleast anyway)

What does you dad have to say about how disgusting it is with the staggering amount of middle-management types festering in the NHS, doing very little salient work and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it?

Or is he just bitter towards doctors?

I'm confused. Are you pro- or anti-doctors being paid that much?

90k doesn't really compare to 200-300k