Doctors incomes vary a whole lot now.
Doctors have always make “high incomes” compared to the average. Even the “ole country doctor”
I know. My dad is an “ole country doctor.”
He’s been paid in fish, chickens, vegetables, and a whole lot of time nothing. At one time he was the only Pediatrician in 3 counties that took medicaid. Medicaid paid 13 bucks for an office visit. It has gone up recently. Until recently a Pediatrician was required to be at the birth of a baby. Paid a whole 30 dollars. Total. Doesn’t matter how long Moms in labor. When you are the only Pediatrician in town and you have 5 OB/Gyn’s how much time do you think he spent at home. After taking care of his own practice?
But, after 50 years of practice he’s still done alright. But he is far from rich. If rich means having lot of money. He takes a lot of satisfaction in his life’s work tho, and that means more to him than all the money in the world.
Means a lot to me too....although.....a larger inheritance would mean a lot too..
Before the war, it was even more so the case. My family doctor was himself a farm boy, and when after the war his practice made him more than comfortable he bought a nice place outside town where he could enjoy the weekends doing chores he hated as a boy. ;).