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Occupation Average Annual Wages
1. Anesthesiologists $232,830
2. Surgeons $230,540
3. Obstetricians and Gynecologists $216,760
4. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons $216,440
5. Internists, General $191,520
6. Orthodontists $186,320
7. Physicians and Surgeons, All Other $184,820
8. Family and General Practitioners $180,850
9. Psychiatrists $177,520
10. Chief Executives $176,840
 
Bull****.

Ortho makes much more
Neurosurgery usually double or triple Gas
Plastic Surgery
Cardiac Surgery
ENT
Retinal Surgeons
Urology
GI
Interventional Cardiology
Radiology

Many others. Yet, we are number 1?

Big big bucks (over a million per year):

EP Specialists (AICD, A Fib ablation,etc)
Neurosurgery with emphasis on spine
 
How does this keep happening. Do we need to get the ASA on this? This is ridiculous.

At least the damn surgeons reading this sh.t know better, and that the numbers are bogus. Neurosurg dudes are probably LOL
 
MGMA numbers are no where close to these posted, we do not make more than Ortho for sure, MGMA would say they make 2-3xs more than us, i know because I have had to look it up recently
 
OMFS makes 216k? Please... This article is nonsense. It looks like our avg annual salary is not too far off, but everyone else's is wayyy off.
 
BLADEMDA said:
Occupation Average Annual Wages
1. Anesthesiologists $232,830
2. Surgeons $230,540
3. Obstetricians and Gynecologists $216,760
4. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons $216,440
5. Internists, General $191,520
6. Orthodontists $186,320
7. Physicians and Surgeons, All Other $184,820
8. Family and General Practitioners $180,850
9. Psychiatrists $177,520
10. Chief Executives $176,840
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Why make $180K when $232K is out there? :laugh:
 
the journalist was paid by crna unions to make it look like gas is still the most prestigious, high paying jobs so the general public will believe it. Meanwhile, they lurk in and covertly try to take over anesthesiology. lol i have no clue what im talking about but I bet some of you docs are thinking it.
 
Par for the course. It's just what passes for journalism now. The entire profession hasn't got half the credibility or a tenth the professionalism it did 20 years ago.

It seems most articles on online news sites, even the big network-affiliated ones, are written with 12th-grader insight and 8th-grade grammar. Even the layout sucks and is arranged to maximize pageviews and ad placement, not conveyance of actual information.

If the subject matter is something that you know ANYTHING about, you always know more than the reporter, who usually can't be bothered to even visit Wikipedia for a few minutes.

There isn't even lip service given to integrity any more. Fareed Zakaria still has an increasingly prominent jobs with CNN, Time, and the Washington Post despite flagrant and admitted plagiarism, and he's not exactly alone in the "proven bull****ter" category.

Add to that, the very deliberate shift in TV news from presentation of facts to delivery of opinion (because it sells better). The intent isn't to inform, but to inflame because controversy creates viewers and sells advertising.


There are few professions that cause me to so frequently reflexively/involuntarily utter out-loud words of contempt than journalists. It's a shame they do a terrible job, because they perform such a critical function for society.
 
pgg said:
Par for the course. It's just what passes for journalism now. The entire profession hasn't got half the credibility or a tenth the professionalism it did 20 years ago.

It seems most articles on online news sites, even the big network-affiliated ones, are written with 12th-grader insight and 8th-grade grammar. Even the layout sucks and is arranged to maximize pageviews and ad placement, not conveyance of actual information.

If the subject matter is something that you know ANYTHING about, you always know more than the reporter, who usually can't be bothered to even visit Wikipedia for a few minutes.

There isn't even lip service given to integrity any more. Fareed Zakaria still has an increasingly prominent jobs with CNN, Time, and the Washington Post despite flagrant and admitted plagiarism, and he's not exactly alone in the "proven bull****ter" category.

Add to that, the very deliberate shift in TV news from presentation of facts to delivery of opinion (because it sells better). The intent isn't to inform, but to inflame because controversy creates viewers and sells advertising.


There are few professions that cause me to so frequently reflexively/involuntarily utter out-loud words of contempt than journalists. It's a shame they do a terrible job, because they perform such a critical function for society.
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Amen to that.

The other category for me is car mechanics.
 
The worst thing about these rankings, even with their incorrect salary figures, is they fail to take into account the time expenditure needed to get into these jobs or the amount of debt accrued in the process.

Sadly, the ones that actually do take those variables into effect consistently end up showing that registered nurses have "better" jobs than physicians.
 
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