£106k salary for GPs. Why?

Question

For £106k my GP opens a maximum of 16 hrs/wk, refuses home visits, is often at home with spouse & family in Malaysia.

Is this the reason he has an 8wk waiting list?

I attended a & e with a serious virus infection last wk only to receive verbal abuse from the duty Quack, I waited 90min for the pleasure.

She beleives I should visit my own gp, but then I wonder if they receive trade discount on private treatment.

If I were paying £65 for him to sign my driving licence it would be done same day.

Why?

I have just heard that they have wasted £5mill. on the new clinic building. the old one on the oppopsite side of the street is for sale. the asking price will be no more than £100k!

With a £5 mill. handout they could have doubled the personnel in the old building, effectively running a double shift.

This would, hopefully have reduced the waiting queu to 4wks.

Do they fear that twice as many would survive this wait?

Answer 1

because the good things in life are free.

Answer 2

Like others who have answered this question i too know of surgeries with huge waiting times and little service outside the normal 9-5 hours. I never used to see my old GP, 2 weeks wait to see your own doctor when you ill will either kill you or you'll be better already!

Yes, doctors go through an awful lot of training to become qualified (but don't forget that our tax paid to put most of them through that training in the first place). Furthermore, what with all the extras they do such a private work £106k is probably a conservative estimate.

Do firemen earn £106k? No but they also have a massive amount of responsibility for other people's lives and risk their own. Do the coastguard earn £106k? No and they're in a similar situation to firemen. What about government employed scientists who work with dangerous chemicals and hazards everyday such as radiation, do they earn £106k? Again no.

Seems to me that this inbalance in wages is a remnant of a long out moded old boys network, it is a profession that is disproportionately revered but this goes back to the old medical man as a man of god, a magician and a healer rather than related to the current view of doctors. The money could be much better spent else where within the health service i suspect. Same goes for the senior managers wages too!!!!

Answer 3

if a GP can command that kind of money then so be it ,i agree but others wont but when you see the kind of money footballers are paid with brains in their boots and the knowledge GPs have to hold there is something rather weird in society today// but i must say i see most GPs take a lot of time off duty now around 32 hours a week and frequent holidays, i would think when looking back at the old doctor of the 30s the whole medical world has tipped upside down and the NHS heavily in huge debt can you have any doubts there seems no way back

Answer 4

They do have a huge responsibility and I feel they deserve the salary but only if they provide the service. My surgery seems to be geared up to cater for unemployed and elderly people. Working folk have to take time off to keep an appointment as the surgery is not open after 5pm or on weekends.

It is a huge practice with 12 doctors - surely they could have a rota for evening/weekend surgeries so that the taxpayers who pay their wages could easily access their services. They are after all a service industry.

Must just say though in fairness, you can get a same day appointment if you phone at 8.30am which is excellent.

Answer 5

I do think GPs have been onto a really good thing over the last few years, though I don't begrudge them an excellent salary after all those years of studying. Perhaps it's a bit too high at the moment.
My local (large) medical centre closes for lunch I think this is pathetic in this day and age and staff should have a staggered lunch break so at least there's someone to speak to. I don't think that's too much to ask.

Answer 6

Compare his salary with that of David Beckhams. Why does he deserve that much money compared to the knowledge and skills that a GP has. You GP does sound like a lazy person, but I know GPs who are committed to their career and work long long hours to care for their patients.
Or to be totally controversial, compare your GPs salary with the money Jade Goody is earning. Enough said

Answer 7

THE BIGGEST THING THAT MADE DOCTORS RICH IS FORMING A UNION--A MEDICAL SOCIETY----THEN CONTROLLING HOW MANY PEOPLE COULD BECOME DOCTORS---THEREBY INSURING HIGH INCOME BECAUSE OF LIMITED NUMBERS & BRASS BALL SOCIETIES DEMANDING HUGH PAYMENTS FOR SERVICES----GO UNDER THE KNIFE & THEY BECOME MULTI-MILLIONAIRES WITHIN A SCANT FEW YEARS............AS A GROUP THEY DON'T CARE IF THEY BANKRUPT THE WORLD-----IN THE LAST 2 YRS. OF LIFE MOST PEOPLE LOSE ALL THEIR SAVINGS TO MEDICAL CHARGES------A LEGAL TRANS FER OF WEALTH TO DOCTORS & DOCTOR OWNED HOSPITALS........FOR EXORBINANT CHARGES-----SUCH AS A BOX OF KOTEX WORTH $6.00-----CHARGED INDIVIDUALLY BY PAD BY PAD-----$ 144.00-----SURGERIES----LOW END---3000.00 TO 12,000.00-------HIGH END-----40,000.00 TO 120,000.00-----THIS PROFESSION IS MORE LUCRATIVE THAN ANY GRAND ROBBERY SCHEME ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS.......HOW LONG WILL WE BE FLEECED INTO BANKRUPTCY ???

Answer 8

It takes eleven years of hard study to learn how to do the coded handwriting....

Answer 9

your GP sounds like a lazy bugger

Answer 10

P.B.P.

Profit before patients.