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Re:Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’ by wlesieutre on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:10PM (#15367086)
If you feel like you're not being paid what you should, you always have the option of starting your own engineering practice instead of letting someone else decide how you get billed out and what cut you get paid.

Presumably these doctors don't have that choice; they get what the government says they get and that's that.

Of course med school in the US is far from free. Totally different system over there, if you compare a single part at a time of course one of them is going to look terrible.

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Re:Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’ by nslav on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:53PM (#15367491)
I definitely don't disagree with you regarding the doctors not having any other option. I was just surprised that the article was describing a 4x billing rate to salary ratio as outrageous when in my experience that is typical for the technology industry in the US.
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