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: 2) by mmcmonster on Friday April 07 2017, @10:36PM
I'm sorry you've dealt with those physicians.
Most physicians I know (and as a physician, I know a lot of them) take 4-6 weeks of vacation time a year. The ones that take more than that are in "lifestyle practices" which encourage low patient volumes and lots of vacation time. The physicians in these practices are either nearing retirement (or effectively in a "soft" retirement, working just 3-4 hours a day or 2-3 days a week) or can't handle the stress of a real job.
With the changes in medical education over the past decade or so, more physicians are choosing lifestyle practices, by the way. They pay is not nearly as good, but it's steady work and quite low stress compared to a regular job as a physician in a medical office or hospital.
As for radiologists, I wouldn't worry too much about them. They'll be extinct within a decade. First of all, it's easy to outsource diagnostic radiology services to just about anywhere in the country. The only reason it has to stay in the country has to do with medicare reimbursement laws. Second of all, it's just a matter of time before the entire field of diagnostic radiology can be done by IBM's Watson.