A junior British doctor says his seniors are paid too much and wants their wages brought in line with those of nurses and other public sector workers.

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Mark Jopling says doctors have allowed themselves to be placed on a "golden pedestal" where they are regarded as "awesome life savers." He said these doctors earn large sums of money, drive luxury cars and live in grand houses, reports the Telegraph.

The British Medical Association said Jopling's views were "not widely held" among doctors, but he won support from the Royal College of Nursing for "helping expose nurses' poor pay."

In comments published in the New Statesman, the 24-year-old said he earned nearly $70,000 even though "I am one of the least-qualified, least-skilled and lowliest-paid doctors in my hospital," whose days were spent "searching for missing heaps of patient notes, running errands and chasing up blood test results."