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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 Saturday April 08 2017, @12:11AM
While I appreciate the time you took to explain the doctor's side of the system (or maybe you are part of the doctor or hospital office staff), this really annoyed me:
> highly trained specialists called Coders, who interpret what the physician has done and translate it to the codes that will actually be billed.
They may be highly trained, but nearly every hospital bill I've seen has wrong codes on it (specifically when looking at my aging parents' bills). When we've had the energy to follow up we can sometimes get these removed. But more often we get the pat line, "Don't worry, that code is taken care of by your insurance." Which means more cost for everyone--but we only can chase this fraud so far personally.
I've been lucky, haven't been an inpatient since 1984 when I had a minor motorcycle accident and was transported to the local ER. Eventually I was seen by a sharp young intern who was OK (although later I found out my X-rays had not been read correctly--common with recent injuries). When I got the bill it was from the surgeon that he was interning for. I asked for the report and they produced a signed statement from the surgeon who described a conversation with me -- which was completely fabricated. Total BS from that doctor's office. I think I sent them a check made out in the name of the intern...