How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession

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7. very funny Daily Beast, very funny

"being a primary care physician is more like being a janitor—but without the social status or union protections."

Really? When did I miss the huge social status promotion of janitors?

Let's just see about those union protections too.

Median income of a general practioner is $176,530.
http://www.bls.gov/OES/current/oes291062.htm

Okay, sure, that IS $140,000 less than I make at least if today is OPPOSITE day does anybody remember when we used to have opposite days?)

Median income for a janitor - $22,590. http://www.bls.gov/oes/CURRENT/oes372011.htm

Okay, that is a teeny, tiny bit less than a GP makes, but thank god for the higher social status of the janitor. Why janitors are held in such high esteem that their occupation is regularly used in articles like this one - as an example of a job with fuking LOW status.

The author chose "janitor" out of all the occupations in all the world, to be funny. A way of saying that, ha ha, doctors are worse off than worm excrement. They are so low EVEN janitors are above them in social status (and, of course, those awesome union wages of $11.75 an hour.)

But maybe fewer janitors are committing suicide than doctors - (although which profession is in FIRST place.)

Why would that be?

Perhaps "Great Expectations". Perhaps most janitors did not expect all that much, so they are fairly satisfied with $11.75 an hour and some benefits.

Whereas the doctor making $175,000 maybe expected to make $300,000.

And heck, maybe $175,000 is NOT all that compared to their Mt. Everest of student loan debt. Their student loan debt is bound to be at least twice as high as that of the median janitor.

But this author pleading for empathy for the poor abused doctors, isn't showing a hell of a lot of it for janitors.

But we are used, as a retired school janitor put it, to being treated as "scum of the floor".