Why Are American Doctors Paid So Damn Much?

[Carolina]

122. Please see Mainer's

thoughtful and correct post above.

Increasing enrollment requires: professors, clinical sites for 3rd and 4th year undergraduate medical clerkships and funding for postgraduate medical training (residencies).

And just a little note about plastic surgery. It is much more than breast augmentations and rhinoplasty. It takes years of training and technical skill. When I was a 1st year resident (we were called interns then), a woman came to the ER who had been badly slashed about the face by her boyfriend. The general surgery resident and I knew we needed help or she would be left with awful, disfiguring scars, so we called the plastics guy on call. To this day (31 years later), I marvel at his work. With masterful efficacy and skill, he put that woman's back together. When I happened to see her several weeks later in the surgery clinic, I couldn't believe how wonderfully she'd healed and beautiful she looked. Plastics often involves reconstruction and in many such cases, it is absolutely artful. Those so skilled deserve what you refer to as the "high life."