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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @06:03PM
Two different takes on malpractice insurance -- WSJ 2009 (this version is less paywalled than the source),
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/epstein-how-other-countries-judge-malpractice [uchicago.edu]
And 2010 from doctors side,
http://epmonthly.com/blog/malpractice-systems-in-other-countries/ [epmonthly.com]
Very big differences in approach around the world. Some US states already have limits in place, others are free-for-all for the ambulance chasers.
I'd still like to know if the doctor survey is before or after expenses like this.