[Mamzelle]

You know, I hear this kind of resentment all the time, including the legendary Lear Jets-- which are around $12M just to start--it makes me kind of dubious that you're a medical professional at all. Sort of a giveaway that you think you're regarded as "substandard" by docs of homo sapiens. That's such nonsense. You might be surprised at how envied vets are for being able to practice a common-sense kind of medicine. Just doesn't ring true to my ears.

There are a lot of hugely wealthy physicians, but if you take a look (one that's not clouded through a haze of resentful green) you'll see that they either inherited their wealth or that they own a business or have been canny investors. The wealth has not come from fees. You might try the business thing, yourself, when you stop pouting.

[vetvetdoug]

A close friend of mine, Bill Leech, was the former attorney general of Tennessee, and stated to me, Never argue with a fool and in your case he was correct.

[TigersEye]

Your statement about why some docs are rich rings quite true to me. My father was a doctor who had no side business was a lousy invester and never sent overdue bills to collections unless they were outrageously big incredibly late and he knew the patient had some means to pay. He never lived big yet still died in debt from spending more than he took in. All of his doc friends who did have big money got it through investments.

He was just a GP in family practice so his malpractice insurance was a pittance compared to an OB-GYN so that wasn't squeezing his ability to bring home a bigger net. You've got it right.