> Come on, doctors are some of the most highly compensated wage earners.

You mean it's not us tech workers? :P

Seriously though, I've seen the pay scales in some countries, they're nice and all, but they come with many extra years of training (expensive plus limited income while you do that), plus shift work and overtime that is bad for everyone (staff and patients) and which shouldn't be necessary — and wouldn't be necessary, if most nations all hired about twice as many of them… but that would require us to also train twice as many and politicians who do that get the budget shortfall today while their successors (possibly in other countries) get the reward for the benefit of their being more trained doctors and nurses.

I'd pay them the same for less hours. Mandatory less hours — go home and sleep, let someone else tend to this patient while you rest.