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Originally Posted by Villages PL

How does it compare with 4 doctors dividing the proceeds of one book? They are certainly not going to make a boatload of cash on one book.

Why would a competent doctor head the CDC if not to make a good salary? Just for the fun of it?

To serve humanity. Certainly profit and lifestyle are motives for physicians, but I personally know many academic physicians who made far less than I did...because teaching, research and patient care mattered to them. Why don't you read about the life of Arthur Guyton (from Mississippi) who developed the math model for the circulatory system. I believe he made about $120K. Jim Hardy, another wonderful man, was the surgeon who developed the surgical technique that Christian Barnard used for the first man to man heart transplant. He also did the first lung transplant in man. I think he made about $200k in his last year. I could go on and on, and have been so fortunate to know so many medical pioneers. Gary Null, PhD is no comparison.