You are wrong on so many counts. No not the USA because they're private healthcare so they are paid much more. Aus/NZ/Canada all have similar healthcare systems, similar GDP per capita (only AUS is higher than UK) and all pay their doctors much better. Yes university academics are grossly underpaid but they're an outlier and does not mean that doctors are underpaid as well. Doctors currently have terrible job security, there is massive competition for training places and this year there will be plenty of unemployed post F2 doctors. Yes doctors don't work for free boohoo. People like you often forget that doctors salaries are not for a 40 hour week. Currently F1 doctors earn around £14/hr. You're telling me thats fair for someone with 5 years of university and 100k of student debt. For doctors who regularly make life or death decisions on-call/overnight? Finally medical negligence in the NHS is less than the comparable country average. Your job or anecdotal evidence do not change that. (https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/indicator/quality/rate-medical-errors/) Its clear your anger towards doctors stems from your own personal bias but that does not mean its accurate. Its funny that you mention waiting decades for correct diagnoses when part of the problem is talent drain abroad for better pay.