[quote=cantab]Dr. Schanzlin earned $793,000 in 2008 from UCSD. He may well have had extra consulting income from drug companies, teaching off-campus, expert witness work, and more.
Physician incomes are outrageous compared to those of other professionals with similar education, ability, and working conditions. To be a regular UCSD professor (median income $100,000), you have to be in the top few % of PhDs nationwide. To be a UCSD physician, you have to be in the top 100% of your med school class and residency program.[/quote]
Here we go again. What is the obsession with judging how obscene other people make. If this is such a sweet deal, foks with “similar education” are welcome to try to and being someone like Dr. Schanzlin. Personally, i think some union protected jobs are obscenely paid, because some of these jobs are really not specialized skills set either (not all, but some).
