For example the people who created and maintain the software I use everyday to write my notes, prescriptions etc….. The engineers who developed the MRI….. The receptionist/ office staff who fax off my referrals so I use my time more constructiveley. We are all interdependent on each other to make the world go round.

Do I think i should get paid more than them! Yes of course, I could probably be trained to do what they do, but it would be very difficult for them to do my job. Should consultants get as paid as much as they do. I like to think they deserve the money. They have usually worked gruelling hard as junior doctors to get to where they are, pateints responsilbity ultimately goes to them; and I was always in awe of how they can cahneg peoples lives.

Yes nurses do deserve more, but more highly skilled work requires renumeration, or there would not be much of incentive to get there.

But it does seem that there are some jobs earning millions, which hold very little importance.

Hopefully the people entering healthcare, teaching, social care the emergency services etc are also being motivated by something other than money, i.e. personal satisfaction for helping shape and create a better society. Money does not bring what people are really looking for – happiness.