Surgeons, to our way of thinking, are like pilots and deserve to be paid a bundle-if they know what they are doing . It is unnerving to say the least when you hear of what one surgeon in particular allegedly did in Queensland and that a Qantas crew recently forgot to put down the landing gear. Then there is the still unexplained case in the US of A where two pilots went off the air and overshot their destination by hundreds of miles.
Here in Darwin, surgeons have left and others are threatening to strike over pay . One media report said the Royal Darwin Hospital is threatening to reveal the salaries of surgeons. Little Darwin can reveal that the top knife gets close to $350,000. Seems the lower rated surgeons receive amounts in the $200,000 region and want to stitch up higher pay. Not so long ago, a passenger plane was damaged after hitting what was described as a" blind spot" on the Darwin tarmac. The last thing you want to hear is that the pilot of your jet is blind.
