Yup, plus don't forget that the risk posed by having bad engineers isn't nearly the same as bad doctors. So to the extent that the control on doctors results in fewer bad ones, I am ok with it.
With engineers you can have one making 50K and another pulling 200K as you mentioned...despite similar degrees. I feel there is less variance in doctor pay at least partially because there is less variance in doctor quality.
> Yup, plus don't forget that the risk posed by having bad engineers isn't nearly the same as bad doctors.
I'm not sure that this is totally true. I don't want to drive on a bridge designed by an incompetent engineer any more than I want to take drugs prescribed by an incompetent doctor.
With engineers you can have one making 50K and another pulling 200K as you mentioned...despite similar degrees. I feel there is less variance in doctor pay at least partially because there is less variance in doctor quality.
Disclosure: father/brother docs:)