Thanks for all your answers and comments. I suppose the picture I have had of the American doctor living in mansions, driving Bentley and playing golf needs to be updated.
I will add that the Swedish health care system changed radically for doctors in the 60īs. Before that they pretty much got payed per patient on top of a monthly salary. Since then the former is gone. My father, also a pediatrician and recently retired, have had a very different living in terms of financial viability.
Well, I am not complaining. I have a good life, lovely children, a house by the beach and a vintage Carrera in my spacious garage - soon to be redecorated into my boyhood dream. Cold beer in the fridge, a comfy bedsitter, Porsche posters on the walls and a lock on the inside of the door.
