This isn't true.
Doctors support the nurses strikes and complaints about working conditions wholeheartedly so it would be great if you didn't spread misinformation about our pay.
A consultant salary (after 5 years of medical school and 9 years of post graduate training, research and exams) is £88k a year. It takes another 9 years of working as a consultant for that to get above £100k a year.
Those salaries are for full time which is 10 sessions a week, for most weeks consultants this works out to 5 days a week. On call weeks when they're in the hospital from 8am til 10pm every day it normally adds up to 3 sessions a day for 5-7 dsys so they get time in lieu.
They also teach and manage their juniors, run the post take in ED, attend meetings to update clinical guidance or mdts with the radiologists for complicated patients plus have their clinics to go through. Just because they're not on the ward doesn't mean they're off in the Nuffield down the road doing a private list.
They don't have time for that much private work if they're full time and if they're not full time then they aren't being paid £100k a year by the NHS.
Yup.
My wife is a consultant doc, and works harder and longer hours than any person I know. She does earn over 100k these days, 7 years after starting as a consultant, but my word she has to work for it. To get that, she is working over 10 sessions pw, including working regular nights and other weird shifts.
No private work, and regularly spends evenings and weekends doing work admin. Only today she is in work doing teaching despite being on annual leave. She doesn't want to do this teaching - but its expected of her.
She 100% bears emotional and legal responsibility for her patients treatment and outcomes which is a heavy toll in her specialty, tears about patients are regular.
I've been trying to convince her to jack it in and move abroad for some time. Same job as hers in Australia starts at $250k and up to $400k (£140k to £220k) even more for temporary locum positions. She wont do this because she is 100% committed to an organisation that doesn't give a shit about her. Honestly its like Stockholm syndrome