Met up with a mate of mine over the weekend and ,with him having a PPL , Pprune came up. He is a specialist anaesthetist with 24 years of specialist experience in Liver transplants and cardiac anaesthesia . He had to go in for an emergency case on Easter Friday . For the public holiday three hours of effort he gets $289 TOTAL before tax !!!!!!!! I didnt believe him untill he showed me his payslip . A plumber will charge you that just to come to your place in normal working hours.
Medicine is not worth the effort unless you like charity work with a bit of better pay than the average uni graduate.