I'm curious (seriously, no irony) on your sources. I know personally (i.e., not as a patient)  two physicians (one is a specialist, the other does general medicine) here in Saskatchewan; I don't know about their income, but I know that they don't look like they are underpaid. They work long hours, but they also travel abroad several times a year, they send their kids to all kinds of activities and trips, they live in very nice houses, and nothing in their lives looks like money is a concern.