Czech Doctors Go for Broke
January 7th, 2011

Via: BBC:

Dozens of Czech hospitals could find themselves struggling to provide basic care on 1 March after almost 4,000 doctors – one quarter of the total number working in the country’s hospitals – tendered their resignations in protest at low wages.

The resignations are being co-ordinated by the doctors’ union (Lok), which says successive Czech governments have done nothing to improve doctors’ salaries since the fall of communism.

Peter Papp, 31, is an oncologist working at a hospital in Usti nad Labem, an industrial city about an hour’s drive north of Prague. He spent six years at medical school followed by three years on the cancer wards of two district hospitals.

With maximum overtime, Dr Papp’s gross salary is $1,165 per month, well below the national average.

After tax, health and social insurance payments, he takes home around $900 dollars, less than a car mechanic or waiter.

With rent in the Usti area at around $350 per month, he is left with slightly more than $500 to feed, clothe, transport and entertain himself. After devoting the last nine years of his life to medicine, Dr Papp has had enough.

“I’m not willing to work for the salary of a McDonald’s employee,” he told me, pointing out that he had made more money teaching English to pay his way through medical school.

I used to have a good friend that was a GP, back in 2005 he noted to me most doctors hate their jobs and are burned out...had a survey posted by his PC, noting this...notes in article that many MD's have simplywalked off for entirely other professions,etc.

So, crisis did not start with Obama! But yes, will get much, much worse...then again, the Elites have  a message for us really, which is:
shut up, work yourself to death for us, consume all you can and then go die......

This is our future -- if ObamaCare sticks around.

The statistics are scary -- 1/3 of American doctors plan to retire in the next 3 years. We're going to have a doctor shortage.

I guess we'll all have to learn how to take care of ourselves, at least for basics like colds, coughs, flu, etc.

Matthew

Well, if they take away vitamins and supplements, it's obvious what they're doing. I heard that 40% of doctors plan to leave their jobs in the next 3 years so...

Do the math. Yes, there will be a shortage, and it's aimed at culling the population.

Many US 'doctors' do not deserve even a McDonald's salary :)