The mechanic makes more than $39,000 today and the Cardiologist is rarely the surgeon.  This is, nonetheless, a good story, although the heart is isolated on a by-pass machine while the critical heart operation proceeds.  I have had two four-by-pass operations with great admiration for the heart mechanics!

A good vehicle mechanic will just not get equivalent pay. 


A MECHANIC WAS REMOVING A CYLINDER HEAD FROM THE ENGINE OF A HARLEY




MOTORCYCLE WHEN HE SPOTTED A WELL KNOWN CARDIOLIGIST IN HIS SHOP.







THE CARDIOLOGIST WAS THERE WAITING FOR THE SERVICE MANAGER TO COME



AND TAKE A LOOK AT HIS BIKE WHEN THE MECHANIC SHOUTED ACROSS THE



GARAGE, "HEY DOC, WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS?"







THE CARDIOLOGIST, A BIT SURPRISED, WALKED OVER TO WHERE THE MECHANIC WAS



WORKING ON THE MOTORCYCLE, THE MNECHANIC STRAIGHTED UP, WIPED HIS HANDS



ON A RAG AND ASKED, "SO DOC, LOOK AT THIS ENGINE. I OPEN ITS HEART, TAKE THE



VALVES OUT, REPAIR ANY DAMAGE, AND THEN PUT THEM BACK IN, AND WHEN I FINISH,



IT WORKS JUST LIKE NEW. SO HOW COME I MAKE $39,000 A YEAR AND YOU GET



$800,000, WHEN YOU AND I ARE DOING BASICALLY THE SAME WORK?"







THE CARDIOLOGIST PAUSED, SMILED AND LEANED OVER , THEN WHISPERED TO THE



MECHANIC............."TRY DOING IT WITH THE ENGINE RUNNING."