Re:ChatGPT Health
by lvl155 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @05:51AM
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They’re not even trained for memorization. They’re trained for mitigation and I don’t really blame them for the crap pay they receive. Over the course of a 40-year career they basically make what a typical junior dev makes. It’s fast becoming a rich man’s hobby career.
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Re:ChatGPT Health
by weatherlite on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:20AM
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What ? In most countries, including the U.S, they are a very highly paid profession (I'm not talking about the internship phase)
Re:ChatGPT Health
by otabdeveloper4 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:37AM
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"Rich doctor" is a thing only in the U.S., and that's due to collusion and price fixing, not because American doctors are better somehow.
In the rest of the world doctors are basically like white-collar car mechanics, and often earn less money and respect.
Re:ChatGPT Health
by adventured on Thursday January 08, 2026 @08:28AM
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That's false. One example:
"According to the Government of Canada Job Bank, the median annual salary for a General Practitioner (GP) in Canada is $233,726 (CAD) as of January 23, 2024."
That's roughly $170,000 in the US. If you adjust for anything reasonable, such as GDP per capita or median income between the US & Canada, that $170k figure matches up very well with the median US general practitioner figure of around $180k-$250k (sources differ, all tend to fall within that range). The GPs in Canada may in fact be slightly better paid than in the US.
Re:ChatGPT Health
by otabdeveloper4 on Monday January 12, 2026 @04:39AM
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Canada and the US is literally the same thing, obviously I didn't mean Canada.
Re:ChatGPT Health
by weatherlite on Thursday January 08, 2026 @08:28AM
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This is a reach.
Can you share a few examples of Western countries where that is the case?
It's about the same pay as a (professional) engineer. In the US, both engineers and doctors are very highly paid. In the UK and Japan they are paid about 50-100k if experienced, which is somewhere about 2-4x less than their US counterparts.