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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) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @09:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @09:36PM (#490536)

    Never let reality get in the way of a doctor's ego.

    1.) All the programs are bachelors with medical requirements.
    2.) Alright, medical school is two years longer than a Masters program. Got me there!
    3.) Residency is the where the practitioner has their decisions reviewed by a supervising doctor. This is what a PA does for their career. You seem to think that only a doctor will continue to learn from this arrangement.
    3.1) I think you're over inflating typical state residency requirements.

    Whatever, I don't argue with fools. Onlookers might not be able to tell the difference.