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Is the sky the limit for doctors salaries?

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Is the sky the limit for doctors salaries?

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Doctors are already pampered, but the answer is to train more, says columnist Daphne Bramham Vancouver Sun Saturday, January 31, 2004 The Canadian medical profession is the largest sheltered workshop in the country. From the time doctors enter medical school until they retire, they are among the most pampered and protected groups in our society. Medical students pay the smallest proportion of the true cost of their education compared to students in all other programs, including other professional programs. The subsidy is about $70,000 a year per student. Interns get paid to work while they do their training. Engineers don’t. Dentists don’t. Teachers don’t. Nurses used to, but they got cut off years ago. Doctors have guaranteed jobs when they graduate. As lobbyists for the medical profession keep telling us, doctors can go anywhere because there is a global shortage. The most expensive tools of their trade are paid for by taxpayers, from hospitals to surgical suites to diagnostic equipm

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