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Why are doctors so unhappy?

BMJ 2001; 322 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.322.7294.1073 (Published 05 May 2001) Cite this as: BMJ 2001;322:1073

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social status & income

Having a high social status and earning a lot of money ?
I'm doing the medical studies as 2nd education, my first
education was IT-specialist. So, when I start working as
an assisting doctor, i'll earn about 6000.- SFr. and working
60 hours, or 80 hours if I wanna have success. so, per hour that's about
25.- SFr. When I work in IT, even just doing "silly" things like
webpublishing, I earn 75.- SFr., as IT-Specialist 150.-, up to 250.- SFr.

Eventually, when I have the choice, what do you think I shall do ? Killing
myself working at the hospital (doing a nice work) or doing a not that
exciting work, but earning enough to feed my family and having a enough
time to be with them ?

Competing interests: No competing interests

22 May 2001
Andreas Hablutzel
Universitiy of Zurich