Docotor's in Canada are basically civil servants ... i.e. employees of the government which has a limited budget to spend on them .... the demand for doctors exceeds the the quantity available. I cannot answer for Britain's solution to this ... maybe some catter from Britain can.

As to lower the $dollar$ expectation ... you have answered that question ... it is a rewarding $career$ ... unlike Cuba where doctors go into the profession for services of humanity as opposed to a rewarding $career$ ... a doctor's wages there are equivalent to a government clerk's ... I should add the standard of Cuba's doctor's graduating from their medical schools and going into the profession is very high.

The province in which I live, New Brunswick, Doctor's have one of the highest (doctor) salaries in Canada ... a few years ago the province had to do this to lure doctors to the province .... this spring the provincial government imposed a salary freeze ... doctor's have now taken this to court ... there is a serious shortage of physician's here ... so much so it is pretty well impossible for someone moving to the province to obtain a family physician. One must go to a local clinic.

biLL