Il consulente che lavora in un ospedale pubblico ha ricevuto € 963.000 in un anno
https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/09/23/consultant-working-in-a-public-hospital-received-963000-in-a-year/
di EnvironmentalShift25
Il consulente che lavora in un ospedale pubblico ha ricevuto € 963.000 in un anno
https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/09/23/consultant-working-in-a-public-hospital-received-963000-in-a-year/
di EnvironmentalShift25
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What sort of hours were they working though?
If anyone deserves this sort of money, it’s medical consultants. They put in years and years of training (and that’s ongoing), they work really hard, they have amazing talent & skill, and the stress levels can be enormous.
Was at a GP yesterday. Waited an hour. Consultation was for 5 minutes.
70 euro.
Easy money.
I love it when a media source try and infuriate people with a headline like this but the public say “good for them”. Doctors work hard in shitty conditions. Id love it if a nurse or pharmacist could make as much but I wont begrudge a doctor for making good money when so many are leaving the country.
It takes 12-15 years to be a radiologist so I don’t care if a few are paid €500k especially if it is overtime to meet demand. Ireland is a rich country. Nurses should be paid a lot more as well.
Classic rage bait
If we want some of the best doctors in the world we have to pay some of the best salaries in the world
Consultant (which can take 20+ years of extremely gruelling education) base pay is 250k.
Everything over that they do extra. This person has likely saved countless lives. Good for them
As a partner to a doctor. I can assure you they deserve as much as they can get. Unless you’re married to a doctor or friends with one, you truly do not see the countless hours that go into the profession. The doctor being on site at a hospital, clinic or practice is only part of it.
Never mind the years in college, exams after and moving up through intern, SHO, Reg, Specilist Reg and then Consultant. It’s a good 12-15 years of someone life to get there.
Perhaps if they saved your life doing a complex procedure you might say they are underpaid
Not to mind they are paying high tax on this income which is around 485,000 in tax.
What bothers me is that consultants are often running a private business in a public hospital. They often take the weekend off and leave cured patients blocking a bed until Monday when they do their rounds. Do they really deserve to get paid 10-15 times more than the junior doctors that follow them around?
I had a chat once with an obstetrician….
The one real chat I had with a doctor. Looked like an easy gig to me… a handful of patients late in his career. Nice house and car and 4 kids of his own all in private school
He then told me after my kid he was removing a stillborn baby next and I was a hard one…..
I then said yea keep your car and house no fucking way could you pay me to do that.
I’ll work my normal high-stress IT job and whine about 40 to 50 hours with no overtime.
Some of these consultants are 80 hours plus a week.
12×6 is not unusual
Awesome to see common comments are about how hard is the job they do and sacrifice.
Nowadays titles like this truly feel so lazy from the news reporting, like, the true enemies are those who never needed to work a day in life and they never will need to work a day for their 20 generations down the line. And yet, media doesn’t say a shit about them.
“Person who’s career is to help the sick” really doesn’t roll off the tongue quite like “Consultant”, does it?
Consultant almost makes it sound like they work for EY and make PowerPoint slides all day.
Many years ago my son was a cardiac patient in Our Lady’s. Sometimes he end up going in for 2-3 days stays if needed. I swear, never once was his consultant not in the hospital in the few years we had of this. The man never left the place. Weekends, evenings – he was always there. And then he had to make life impacting decisions about the lives of babies, and slice into them when needed (thankfully my son avoided the slicing open, they went up his femoral artery for his treatment). I know this doesn’t apply to all consultants, but you can’t pay doctors like my son’s cardiologist enough.
Consultants are also responsible for the actions and decisions of all the non consultant doctors working in their team, that’s a level of stress I would never want to have.
They’ve a constantly changing roster of doctors, they just get used to them and the 3/6/12 month rotation is finished and now they’ve a new team, and law of averages some of them might be dud doctors.
fair play. hopefully they stick around. we’ve a big shortage of Doc’s.
They received 963k and would have paid 480k in taxes on their wages plus all the other tax they pay for living in Ireland etc
They save lives
Just f**king pay them and quit the moaning
He obviously worked and works very hard to make that money fair play. Now Let’s get the nurses salaries up