Why are surgeons paid more than brick layers?

[hunter]

90. The AMA is nothing but a shill for the pharmaceutical companies anymore.

They are a dying institution of old farts. They are most certainly not a "union," in fact their anti-union stance is the disease that is killing them. Many younger doctors avoid them since so many of them are on salary now working for the same large institutions that mistreat unionized nurses and other medical staff.

It's a new world out there and the corporations are abusing everyone, doctors included.

The supply of doctors is limited because the training is damned expensive, the work is insanely difficult, and your insurance company would pay $8-an-hour medical assistants to do brain surgery if they could get away with it.

Most doctors tell their kids not to go into medicine. Primary care physicians especially are the next "overpaid" class (just like teachers and nurses) that the big corporations are gunning for. Every fat ass MBA making $500,000 or more, guys who flunked "science for dummies" college courses, guys who couldn't be trusted to give their own kid cold medicine, these evil clowns think they could be doctors, just like they think they could be nurses, or teachers, or janitors.

Or even bricklayers...