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Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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, @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."