I think it would be more like a thumb-wrestling match.

I'll give you one thing pilots and doctors have in common, and that's both have a tendency towards arrogance.

The routine surgery or flight should run like clockwork and not require a life-saving heroic intervention, but it's our skills as professionals that we fallback on if needed to save the day. Comparing job duties and responsibilities to compensation is an immature comparison.

If we were compensated based on the amount of lives we were responsible for then policemen, firefighters, and military personnel would be compensated ALOT more then all of us.