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posted by martyb on Friday April 07 2017, @11:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-up,-doc? dept.

This salary ranking might be of interest to Soylentils contemplating careers in medicine:

Not all doctors take home the same amount of money. Orthopedists — doctors who treat bone and muscle problems — make the most on average. Pediatricians, or those who take care of children, earn the least. And white doctors take home significantly more than their equally qualified peers of color, regardless of specialty.

This data comes from the WebMD-owned medical resource Medscape, which crunches the numbers on self-reported annual income from more than 19,200 doctors across 27 specialties for its annual Physician Compensation Report.

Friends in residency programs have often aspired to Radiology as a high-pay, low-risk specialty, but YMMV.


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  • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @12:55PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @12:55PM (#490186)
    • Doctors work ridiculously hard (it's stupidly part of the culture), and have a lot of student debt to pay off.
    • A huge number of people are "poor" or sick. Government forces you to pay for them.
      • First and foremost, the government requires emergency rooms to treat anybody who seeks help; traditionally, poor people don't buy health insurance (even now), and instead have just shown up at the emergency room, where they must be treated. The hospitals have eaten this cost, and pass it on to you, dear productive comrade—you are paying for these knuckleheads who spend their days getting their faces smashed during street fights over disputed "females" or new sneakers, and the like.

        Worse, poor people head to the emergency room whenever they've got a cold, wasting gobs of highly expensive emergency resources.

        Furthermore, poor facilities for people with mental illness means that a lot of hypochondriacs and schizophrenics, etc., show up at the ER daily, and hospitals must (by law) treat them.

      • Obamacare has forced people to buy insurance plans that cover not only sick people, but also all kinds of new benefits (such as birth control). You are being forced to pay for poor baristas who just like a good weekly fuck with a stranger from the night club.

      That is where your money is going; the health care industry is highly socialized; unlike outwardly "socialist" countries, though, you're not just paying one giant lump-sum in taxes (you know, that "fee" for "civilization", as socialists like to call it); by having a [slightly] more direct association with the costs of health care, you are able to see that this one particular aspect of the socialized society is grossly expensive—especially when that system is neither truly capitalist nor socialist.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @01:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @01:48PM (#490215)

    Ignore reality at your own peril.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @01:52PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @01:52PM (#490218)

    > Obamacare has forced people to buy insurance plans that cover not only sick people, but also all kinds of new benefits (such as birth control). You are being forced to pay for poor baristas who just like a good weekly fuck with a stranger from the night club.

    But this should reduce system costs! Pregnancy (and/or terminating it) is a lot more expensive that birth control.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @02:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @02:02PM (#490225)

      Nobody is arguing that it would be cheaper to let fools get pregnant.

      The point is that this is where your money is going: Poor fools.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 07 2017, @04:01PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 07 2017, @04:01PM (#490306) Journal

      I don't like paying to prevent poor people from getting pregnant.

      I like even less having to pay to terminate poor people's unwanted pregnancy.

      I like even less to pay to feed and care for their children because the poor parents either can't or won't take adequate care of them.

      Given the choice, I would greatly prefer paying for birth control for people who cannot afford it. I think the small cost is a gigantic savings to society. Letting poor people breed like rabbits results in more, um, poorly educated voters.

      Another thought: if there weren't so many people in poverty, there might not be a drug problem. Example: I only occasionally use narcotic pain killers without getting addicted because I'm not poor and have a great life. Even on days when I make a decision to take the drugs. If people weren't so poor, they might have other better distractions than breeding like rabbits, and they could afford their own birth control. The key takeaway is that poverty is a large cause of problems in our society. If we could find the political will to fix that I bet we would fix a lot of other problems without realizing.

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      People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @08:46PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @08:46PM (#490513)

        I don't believe that poverty is a large cause of problems in our society; rather, I believe the problems in our society are what cause poverty.

        That's why welfare programs do not work, even in countries where the vast majority of people approve of such problems.

        To borrow a line, "It's not the poverty, stupid."

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @04:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @04:10PM (#490315)

    what kind of bitchy little rat modded you a troll? is there not a disagree mod? i'm sure there is. this bitch just wants to rat. i hope someone in your daily life beats you to death for being the little weasel you are.