I looked up salaries of Canadian doctors just to compare. Seems like the average is about $300,000 Canadian dollars or about $225,000 USD. So Canadian doctors make about 2/3rds of what they make across the border. That indicates its not necessarily all about training or difficulty.
It’s a common problem in Canadian healthcare that workers leave to the US for a considerable pay bump, which is part of what the article talks about. Are American doctors just in it for the money?
The cost of living is lower in Canada? That’s gotta be a new one. Literally everybody in Canada complains about how the cost of living there is skyrocketing. Their home prices are worse than Cali. I was just up there in 2021 and it was pennys on the dollar for me with exchange rates, but stuff was definitely expensive up there compared to even Cali where I’m from. The only thing cheaper is healthcare and schooling but that’s just subsidized.
Canadians in many fields make 2/3rds or less than their American counterparts.
Also, education is more subsidized in Canada.
Are American doctors just in it for the money?
This is a strange question. You think European or Canadian doctors are just more noble and selfless? They all take the best salary they can get, all other things being equal. But the US has a higher median income along with a convoluted medical system in which profits are unusually high, and doctors get a share of that.
My wife is an ob in the US. While we are definitively comfortable there’s no level of “in it for the money.” My wife works fairly absurd hours and dealt with worse hours through medschool/residency. Also came out with a solid amount of loan debt that won’t be paid off until her mid 40s. The other facet is doctor’s don’t really see many pay bumps. She’s had essentially the same hourly rate (even though she’s salary) throughout her career past residency. That won’t really change ever unless she takes on side gigs and she’ll still have to continue the rougher call hours until she’s much older.
I looked up salaries of Canadian doctors just to compare. Seems like the average is about $300,000 Canadian dollars or about $225,000 USD. So Canadian doctors make about 2/3rds of what they make across the border. That indicates its not necessarily all about training or difficulty.
It’s a common problem in Canadian healthcare that workers leave to the US for a considerable pay bump, which is part of what the article talks about. Are American doctors just in it for the money?
The cost of living in Canada is substantially lower though, so you need to figure that into it.
The cost of living is lower in Canada? That’s gotta be a new one. Literally everybody in Canada complains about how the cost of living there is skyrocketing. Their home prices are worse than Cali. I was just up there in 2021 and it was pennys on the dollar for me with exchange rates, but stuff was definitely expensive up there compared to even Cali where I’m from. The only thing cheaper is healthcare and schooling but that’s just subsidized.
https://livingcost.org/cost/canada/united-states
Canadians in many fields make 2/3rds or less than their American counterparts.
Also, education is more subsidized in Canada.
This is a strange question. You think European or Canadian doctors are just more noble and selfless? They all take the best salary they can get, all other things being equal. But the US has a higher median income along with a convoluted medical system in which profits are unusually high, and doctors get a share of that.
My wife is an ob in the US. While we are definitively comfortable there’s no level of “in it for the money.” My wife works fairly absurd hours and dealt with worse hours through medschool/residency. Also came out with a solid amount of loan debt that won’t be paid off until her mid 40s. The other facet is doctor’s don’t really see many pay bumps. She’s had essentially the same hourly rate (even though she’s salary) throughout her career past residency. That won’t really change ever unless she takes on side gigs and she’ll still have to continue the rougher call hours until she’s much older.