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Old 13-12-2008, 10:04 PM
Ian Robinson
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Originally Posted by Zuts View Post
Exactly. As far as university tenured staff are concerned, who cares. Like we have a shortage who cares. Doctors on the other hand, if i was one and somebody was going to fix my salary as a surgeon then I would be off to NZ or the US or England. I would have to have rocks in my head to stay here and have my pay fixed by some beauracrat.
So the salaries /contracts are negotiated to a level that is attractive to them , and if a doctor is only practicing to make himself wealthy , you don't him treating you as he doesn't see your best medical interests as a high enough priority.