Except this sort of funding has multiplicative effects. Funding for a single doctor helps only that doctor and their patients. Funding for this sort of work helps all doctors and all patients. When austerity cannibalizes your force multiplying efforts, that’s truly the end.
Edit:
For context the thing you linked says UK medical residents (in US language) make $36k/year, and the median household income is also $36k/y[0] .
In the US the average non specialist income is $60k[1], and the median household income is $69k[2]
This tells me things aren’t out of whack.
They also say 40% of residents in the UK want a different job. But residencies are temporary. In a few years they will have a new job - a full doctor.
I’m not saying there’s not a crisis, but that sheet doesn’t explain to me what the crisis actually is. They seem to be doing on par with US residents.
$230k, which when indexed by median household income, is comparable to the UK at 100k (I assume you used dollars? If not that’s $126k).
Edit: I’m not making any tax statements because taxes are unavoidable and applied to everyone in the nation, so are part of the indexing. That said US taxes sound comparable or more in some areas (taxes in NYC for instance can exceed 50%)
While it depends on the specialty, in Australia it is not uncommon for consultants to be on AUD 300-400K (= 150-200K GBP, 200-250K USD). I don't understand why salaries in the UK are so low, even for highly educated professionals.
My grandfather was a GP. He hated the NHS so much, he left the UK and never went back. Pay was likely a factor, but he also viewed the NHS as a denial of his professional freedom. While Australia eventually adopted something akin to the NHS (Medicare), I don't think he objected so much to that, since it involved less government control over the how of his job.
>Earn £100,000 in 2023/24 and you'll take home £67,049. This means £5,587 in your pocket a month. Over the year you'll pay £27,432 income tax and £5,519 in national insurance.
It varies quite widely by location because the income often reflects the number of patients and what source their income is from (Medicare, private insurance, uninsured). The med school debt for family medicine doctors can be quite daunting to pay off
My brother has lived in all three of the US, UK and Australia, doing non-professional jobs (construction, agriculture, gardening, cellar hand in the wine industry).
He didn't last long in London – he was working as an unskilled labourer in the construction industry, the pay was terrible, and the basic necessities of life were so expensive, he could hardly afford to eat. He'd worked similar jobs in Australia and got paid a lot more, and found life more bearable.
Some countries pay high because everything is expensive. Some countries pay low because everything is cheap. The UK seems to be a place where people get paid low because everything is expensive.
Absolutely true. But saying UK doctors are underpaid because they’re paid half of a US doctor while ignoring everyone is paid half of a US person for everything is disingenuous. Everyone in the UK is inexplicably underpaid, and everything is expensive.
He lived in a small town in Oregon with his first wife. While they weren’t paid a lot, life wasn’t expensive either. I think he would have stayed except the marriage didn’t work out. Obviously that isn’t an entirely fair comparison to London, but I still think the pay-to-expenses ratio would be more favourable in small-town US than small-town UK
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This does seem nice and even simpler than TI's Ez430-chronos [0].
That said, 3 years on a single battery doesn't seem great of course I suppose it depends what apps you use and load..and that it's programmable that is cool.
Battery life is probably relative. I lost one of my Casio F91s in 2018. Found it last week while packing for a canoe trip, the time and date were within seconds of the Casio F91 on my wrist.
Can you still buy the chronos? I bought one a while back and it disappeared in a move. Would love to monkey with it again.
[Edit: Oh. Okay. I see that you included a reference to the "RETIRED" product listing. I mean, it wouldn't be a TI product unless TI EoL'd it just as it was getting market traction.]
The actual linked article isn't the paper, and doesn't even name the paper as far I can tell, it's just given as "Hu, W. et al. Science 381, 979–984 (2023)." in a footnote.
This is the actual paper, which (presumably, I cannot access) is specifically about how they made the estimate: Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition:
[0] https://www.bma.org.uk/media/6882/bma-ia-juniors-fact-sheet-...