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Originally Posted by adbie
Not quite. Doctors are well respected and enjoy a comparatively higher perceived social status than other professions. Doctors save lives or at least give a better quality of life to patients. They get respectable salaries too.
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I mean the same in the context of clocking your hours and getting a pay at the end of the month. Intangibles like social status are very hard to measure. Besides, not every doctor is the ethical healthcare professional you expect he/she to be.
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Originally Posted by adbie
As for slogging part, it's debatable. I know of friends in IT who frequently have to work feverishly in cold data centres for long hours, sometimes overnight, especially when there's a project roll out or major bug fix. And they don't get paid a lot.
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Yes. It's debatable. How much should we pay for someone to save your life? To endure the mental stress knowing he/she might kill you if he/she makes a mistake?