[cherry]

many drs nowadays avoid private practice and join hospitalist groups and have set hrs....long hrs...hard hrs...but defined hrs and when you're off, you're off...no calls...also, you work several days on, but get several days off in between....many of them also sign on to be the medical chief at retirement homes, assisted living, nursing homes....not a bad income...

drs work hard and have to be smart....but sometimes you look at teachers with their fluffy degrees and all the time off and perks and you wonder is it worth going to college/med school/being an intern....and the money it costs...

lets face it...we've made liberal arts a better job than the hard sciences..

[PapaBear3625]

You also have almost half of the medical school grads being women these days.

Women doctors are less likely to want to put in the long hours that men do:

Female doctors saw on average 37 percent fewer patients than male doctors (131.9 vs. 180.6). This is not a fluke, as this data corresponds with other studies showing that female physicians work fewer hours than male physicians. For example, a 2000 study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that 22 percent of women worked part-time, versus 9 percent for men. More recent data supports the veracity of these findings. According to Medscape’s 2016 compensation survey, only 26 percent of female physicians report spending more than forty hours a week with patients, compared to 40 percent of male doctors.