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You don't seem to understand how the medical system works. Doctors do not get promotions based on how many tests they order. If anything, ER doctors order unnecessary tests due to the risk of being sued in this country if they were to miss something.

I've worked in an ER before. The physicians there basically work nonstop for their entire shift. The idea that they're doing nothing just because they only spent a few minutes with you is ridiculous. They have way more patients to see than the nurses do. There are several nurses to each ER doc. Not to suggest that nurses do less - but they definitely don't work any harder than an ER doc does. They work equally hard. But the doctors have to do a lot more training and pay a lot more money for schooling to work the jobs that they do, so of course they should get paid more. If they didn't then we'd have an even larger physician shortage in this country.

The problem with healthcare in this country is corporate greed leading to understaffing and burnout.