$1m salary for radiologist

[Shadows]

Define "boof head" for me.Many very successful rugby players are also lawyers,doctors etc.As for confusion i think you may well be confused as to what is a sport and what your opinion of sport is,easily solved as i think rugby will be defined as sport in any language.Maybe its catch up time for you,think motorcycles for instance,Harleys contrived in the school yard era of motorcycling but still making huge $,rugby as you say is much the same but theres still money to be made.

Are you talking about successful people from the real world going out and making huge sums of money playing the game of rugby in their twenties, or are you referring to those that have physically written themselves off by 35 and have been given cushy non-productive jobs after their demise by organisations shrewdly cashing in on their "fame"? Can you name more than a margin of error worth of successful 20 year old doctors and lawyers who went on to be successful rugby game players? I bet there's not many, any that there may be are probably just freaks of nature.

Nope. No confusion here. Definately not a sport. It is a game created in a school yard. Look it up if you like.

I don't see what my choice of motorcycle has to do with anything. It certainly doesn't earn me any money (unless you count the benefit found in the lack of speeding tickets).

Just another form of opium for the masses. Enjoy your game.

Meanwhile, a little radiologist waits..... or simply fucks off to Aussie.

[98tls]

Are you talking about successful people from the real world going out and making huge sums of money playing the game of rugby in their twenties, or are you referring to those that have physically written themselves off by 35 and have been given cushy non-productive jobs after their demise by organisations shrewdly cashing in on their "fame"? Can you name more than a margin of error worth of successful 20 year old doctors and lawyers who went on to be successful rugby game players? I bet there's not many, any that there may be are probably just freaks of nature.

Nope. No confusion here. Definitely not a sport. It is a game created in a school yard. Look it up if you like.

I don't see what my choice of motorcycle has to do with anything. It certainly doesn't earn me any money (unless you count the benefit found in the lack of speeding tickets).

Just another form of opium for the masses. Enjoy your game.

Meanwhile, a little radiologist waits..... or simply fucks off to Aussie.

ok fuck it ya got me,i think your choice of motorcycle is related to how quickly you decipher written word,read my post again and by all means take your time then when your ready respond with something worth responding to.

[Shadows]

ok fuck it ya got me,i think your choice of motorcycle is related to how quickly you decipher written word,read my post again and by all means take your time then when your ready respond with something worth responding to.

Well there's only so much money to go around.

Maybe if multitudes of weren't injured every year chasing the rugby dream and supported by the taxpayer in their recuperation (tens of millions of dollars every year, and climbing), then there might be a little left in the kitty to pay our medical professionals what they're worth, enabling people with grave illnesses to receive life saving treatment without spending their families' inheritances overseas.

Enjoy your game, and have a long and healthy life.

[HornetBoy]

Dan Carter - you compare someone who is directly involved in saving hundreds (if not thousands) of lives during their career with someone who runs about casing an oval ball and promoting undies.

I know which one I'd rather be paying when I start shitting blood.

I agree - silly silly footie prices.

Yep i agree with you their AllenB good point, but ....

In terms of workload and importance of decision making, they both perform in totally different environments but then again they both have to deal with alot of pressure which can have major consequences if they make the wrong decision eg radiologist can be potentially making life or death decisions (huge pressures obviously) and dan can stuff up the world cup (which the whole country is behind keep in mind)

But despite all that ,IMO i think the Medical professionals should be getting that kind of pay packet not the sports athletes,as life and death decisions are alot more important than trying to show a countries dominance in a certain aspect of sport. ...(and im currently doing a Degree in this stuff,its fustrating because you realise how much more the athletes you instruct earn above yourself and your the one who has studyied the books for 4+years )

[rachprice]

dingoz your thinking radiographer, radiologist is medically trained. Six years of medical school. 2 years of house surgeon to become a registrar then 3+ (3 if your the fuckin man) to specialise! So yeah 11-12 years.
But anyways ophthalmologists were getting 1 mil in nz, until they had the commerce commission investigate them because you could only train as one if one of the others died.
But doctors very definitely deserve it (bit biased), they have lives in their hands they have to know details about every organ system and pathology. Its pretty tough and while some doctors these days still go by the paternalistic thinking (not good but not all), there has been a general decrease in the publics respect for them!

[hdus001]

If the aussies are advertising $1,000,000 here for a radiologist we should advertise in india and china for radiologists , we would get them and at a very decent rate and they couldnt be any worse than our medical profesion ,infact Id go as far as to say the best doctors Ive seen are indians.

And what stops the aussies from doing exactly that? Immigrants will always choose to go to the country that gives them the best overall deal.

[scracha]

And what stops the aussies from doing exactly that? Immigrants will always choose to go to the country that gives them the best overall deal.

Yep, Aussie is sure looking tempting

As for Dan Carter putting in 16 years. Well, maybe. But the radiologist won't have been earning 1 million per year during his 12 years or so of training. If NZ had any sense they'd not be letting anyone with a student loan out of the country.