This is a crime? I wonder what their work hours are, including on-call time. I don't think many people would take the time and money to train to become physicians if it were turned into a communist low paying job with killer hours.
I know a few doctors too, and they are hard working honest people (the ones I know any way). Their compensation reflects risk, years of hard work and training, and the fact that they do not have the personal time to even do simple things like mow their own lawn or take care of their own personal business. They have to hire help for a lot of things normal people do for themselves because they are always either working, on-call, or training.
Ambulance chasing lawyers like Edwards on the other hand do no service to mankind. They are leaches. Good honest lawyers who do not chase ambulances are ok since legal protection against the ambulance chaser variety is a service to mankind.
Jeese, I am not saying they are not hard working, honest folks. All the hell I was trying to say is they make more money than we are let on to believe.
My wife and I have a variety of doctors who work within the Johns Hopkins system. These docs are fantastic! I credit one of them for keeping my wife alive for the past 14 years - when she was first dianosed with breast cancer. If they make a good salary than good for them. I would like to see the salaries of some of these journalists and news people and ask the same question to people - are they getting paid too much?