The article fails to mention the debt-load that doctors acquire through their lengthy schooling. I agree that it seems ludicrous to pay (some) doctors the outrageous salaries that they are paid, but most professions don’t require a couple thousand dollars of post-college debt to practice. That may be fine for a specialist surgeon pulling in 600k annually, but it’s quite different for academic primary care docs making more like 120k$ in major metropolitan areas.

Disclosure: doctor