Letters to the editor: Doctors' earnings always in the limelight

There seems to be a lack of curiosity as to why these doctors are earning sums no doctor in Ireland ever should from the public purse

In the supposed land of milk and honey for doctors, 720 consultant posts are unfilled in the smallest consultant workforce in Europe.

As predictable as the daffodils, spring every year seems to bring a headline in which the earnings of 23 of Ireland’s 17,925 doctors are held up to scrutiny.

These huge sums are compared to the average salary of a nurse, rather than the far more modest salary of an average doctor for reasons best known to the writer.