In some areas, clinicians make a lot less than the norm. But overall, clinicians remain among the highest paid people on the planet. And that's the lure for most (not all) of them. That's why it was much, much easier to get into Med School in the 1980's (almost half of all applicants accepted). That's when the money was in MBA's. Then the economy began to tank, so the money chasers decided to make their millions the old fashioned way: by becoming a physician.