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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: 3, Touché) by GungnirSniper on Friday April 07 2017, @02:56PM (6 children)

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Friday April 07 2017, @02:56PM (#490257) Journal

    Yet McDonald's has a list of prices posted, does promotions to bring people in, and doesn't charge me three times the price if I don't have Platinum Hamburger Insurance.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 07 2017, @03:49PM (5 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 07 2017, @03:49PM (#490297) Journal

    Your McDonald's visit does not require the time of a highly trained professional with a lot of education debt. Someone who must review your record before coming to the exam room. Who must quickly asses and diagnose your problem. Quickly decide what action to take. Try to quickly decide if any of the drugs being heavily pushed by the pharmacy's drug pushers are appropriate treatment. Try to explain to patient why magical unicorn drugs they saw on TV are inappropriate, ineffective for this problem, without offending the patient into getting a 3rd, 4th, 5h opinion. Then time for documenting what just happened without using offensive language. Hope they don't get sued. Move on to the next scheduled patent and hope they are keeping up with the appointment schedule for today.

    While I begin to think the way the US pays for health care with health insurance is not working as it should, the issue of high costs is a separate issue than how those costs are paid.

    That said, platinum hamburger insurance sounds good as long as the co-pay isn't too high.

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    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Saturday April 08 2017, @12:33AM (3 children)

      by bob_super (1357) on Saturday April 08 2017, @12:33AM (#490627)

      European doctors do all of that, typically with few if any assistants, only charge 20 to 40 bucks for the privilege ... and life expectancy is higher.

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 10 2017, @02:08PM (2 children)

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 10 2017, @02:08PM (#491628) Journal

        Do they see fewer patients?

        Regardless of the answer, it is interesting that there might be doctors who do not feel it is beneath them, that they are too good, to do paperwork or check patient's vitals and other menial tasks.

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        • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 10 2017, @03:50PM (1 child)

          by bob_super (1357) on Monday April 10 2017, @03:50PM (#491682)

          I can't say how many patients they see, 3 to 5 an hour would be my guess in most cases, depending on speciality and case complexity.

          For the ones I saw, the paperwork is typically limited to one single sheet (or its computer equivalent), essentially unchanged for 30 years. The doctor can do it while talking to you, because it's always the same.
          The bigger groups (kids' orthodontist has 4 doctors) may have an assistant or two, but not the >8-for-4 that my Chicago paediatricians had.
          Individual practises often have one person taking appointments for many far-apart doctors.

          Throw in free med school, and medecine-is-not-perfect liability laws (i.e. insurance), and you don't end up spending 17% of GDP on health care...

          • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 10 2017, @05:01PM

            by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 10 2017, @05:01PM (#491740) Journal

            Wow, what an idea!

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @03:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @03:56PM (#501192)

      Who must quickly asses and diagnose your problem

      I prefer to be assed by amateurs.