Surgeons in the US
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Originally Posted by rickyrossman
Also, why do all medical specialities have approximately the same salary?
This is a much better question than @Democracy has given you credit for. The honest answer is that the profession (through the British Medical Association) has always opposed the idea that doctors in some specialties should be paid differently to others. This is partly because it would make it very difficult to bargain collectively if we all split off into different factions competing for higher amounts from the same overall pay envelope.
It is an open secret that this upsets some specialties - the Royal College of Surgeons of England in particular lobby behind the scenes for varying T&Cs.
There are lots of reasons why specialties could be paid differently as they differ a lot in terms of difficulty (physic...
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