Quick Answer. If blood appears black or dark red, it means the blood has a low oxygen level, notes Dr. Anne Marie Helmenstine for About.com. Bleeding blood of this color by itself is not a cause for alarm since all blood in the veins has relatively low oxygen. Continue Reading.
A physician with billings of about $250,000 would have a net income of about $200,000 and take home $127,100 after taxes. That same physician, incorporated, would have roughly the same take-home but be able to defer taxes on $60,000. What you hear, especially during contract negotiation time, is that physicians have overhead costs ranging from 40-60 per cent, and pay 40 per cent income taxes.
Yet, beyond our prurient interest, How much are doctors paid? is a question that has important public policy implications. Taxpayers, via provincial health insurance plans, fork out more than $20-billion annually for physician services. Yet, despite this expense â one-10th of all health spending and one-fifth of all public health spending â we have very little idea how much individual physicians actually earn. Why does this matter? It matters because the country's 72,000 or so doctors are on the public payroll.