“Resident physicians are severely underpaid for the amount of work they do. They graduate from medical school with over $200K in debt and interest rates on those loans are usually over 6.5% annually.
“Programs receive about $150K per resident per year, but only about $60K of that goes to the resident each year (who, BTW, works between 60-120 hours per week, performing pretty much all of the duties as an attending physician). Depending on the program, they may be treated like absolute garbage by admin and staff, forcing them to walk on egg shells for the duration of their training (three to seven years). Oh, and they also have zero bargaining power because they absolutely must finish their residency to become attendings, so if they want to leave a toxic program, nobody else will take them. And on top of that, new grad NPs (nurse practitioner) and PAs (physician assistant) pull in six figures — even though compared to residents, they have far less training, work fewer hours, have minimal liability, and aren’t ever on call.”
—u/Higsey
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lizmrichardson/overpaid-jobs-underpaid-jobs