Please. Do programmers make $50/hour in sweatshops?If they've got a doctorate required to work in the relevant area, I'd expect so. You did say that the $ earned was the only difference.
Sheesh, if physicians are doing so obscenely well, you should go to med school so you can be in clover too.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1