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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: skinowski who wrote (9928)9/30/2009 5:01:46 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (3) of 42652
 
<<<In many specialties doctors still make a good living, but unless something changes, being an Internist or Family doc is gradually becoming a thing of the past.>>>

Why is that?

I don't know but doing a quick back of the envelope type calculation, I figure that any Internist or Family doc could make $125,000 dollars a year without working that many hours.

But I can see with specialists averaging $400k or $500k a year (and with some surgeons making $mms) why would anyone want to make much less.

What am I missing?

Back of the envelope business model:



Total Income:              $250,000.00
                           ___________

Medical Insurance            20,000.00
Assistant                    35,000.00
Office rent                  36,000.00
Office Overhead              34,000.00
 
Take home                   125,000.00

All you would need is to see 20 patients a day - not exactly a heavy workload.
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