A slight aside - why is a doctor's renumeration so high in comaprison to ours? This is my own view, but perhaps it is because the BMC sets the standards that doctors must meet to get the job - i.e. sets them deliberately high so it restricts the rate of supply. This then allows room for doctors to say they are worth a higher pay package. Not to demean the job but handing out prescriptions and looking at moles and referring to guidance on the computer does not seem like it needs a £100k average salary.
Doctors' remuneration (apart form the few in private practice) did not hit it's current heights until one G.Brown esq. started to throw our tax money at them in the belief that he was improving the public services. Prior to that they were generally on a par with pilots. Some GPs, it is reported, earn in excess of £250k pa.