Two sites you might find informative. US physicians compensation:
http://www.allied-physicians.com/salary_surveys/physician-salaries.htm.
UK physicians compensation:
http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/details/Default.aspx?Id=553.
At 07:18 PM 2/28/2009, you wrote:
>Part of the problem with creeping change is that it passes by undetected -
>until it's far too late.
>
>Here are a few changes that have already had their effect.
>
>Anti terror legislation (only to be used in very exceptional circumstances;
>indeed Please Do Not Worry was printed in big friendly letters right across
>it) was used a month or two back to freeze the assets of Icelandic banks.
>Well so what? They're only banks. And yet two important principles have been
>breached: the spirit in which the legislation was, supposedly, passed in the
>first place and the moral requirement upon the government to play things
>(reasonably) straight.
>
>The 2007 Serious Crime Act, supposedly intended for use against drug dealers
>and terrorists, was used a couple of weeks ago to seize one of the servers
>used by UK Indymedia. Again there's a breach of principle.
>
>There has been a dramatic increase in the use of armed police. A couple of
>years ago, for example, I emerged from my local tube station into a ring of
>sub machine-guns. Who was visibly and or audibly horrified by this? Myself
>and a young West Indian kid. Everyone else just walked on by, preferring to
>play with their phones.
>
>The rise in the UK's prison population has been frightening and stark. It's
>dwarfed by the Land of the Free, of course. But maybe we will get there,
>given time.
>
>Finally, the use of oppressive detention against asylum seekers (the
>justification is flimsy) and 'suspected terrorists' with 'secret evidence'
>against them is presumably quite well known.
>
>And in fact, some of the proposed changes are not just repressive but also
>very, very dumb. For example, a voice screening system intended to weed out
>dishonest benefits applications may well be a con by an Israeli security
>company.
>
>As to the NHS, that (like the UK education system) continues to be destroyed
>even as people doze. I have numerous personal examples: managers of one
>hospital insisting on fast track discharging of hip fracture patients when
>more than 50% had to be readmitted later (which is crazy, obviously, but
>apparently it made the bed blocking statistics look much better); a 20 year
>contract with outside caterers which left another with food which its own
>nutritionists described as totally inadequate for patients' basic needs; a
>London teaching hospital undergoing the first stage of a government driven
>IT 'upgrade' (NPfIT in the jargon) which is still proving close to unusable
>and, I suspect, may remain so.
>
>I could go on.
>
>CW
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