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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) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @01:52PM (3 children)
> 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
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)
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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @08:46PM
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."