Taking a quick look at pay packets

Lloyd Mudiwa broods over the latest report from the OECD and subsequent critical  media coverage of the salaries of Irish doctors— only to find corroboration for assertions made by the IMO and IHCA. The issue of doctors’ pay in Ireland has once again hit the headlines amid a controversy over hospital executives’ top-up salaries and publication of the Health at a Glance 2013: OECD Indicators — Remuneration of doctors (general practitioners and specialists). The case of the Master of the National Maternity Hospital lends credence to a long-held belief by doctors of the existence of a campaign of misinformation that…