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Rad onc pay and reimbursement and patient loads are very Pareto. This has been shown again. And again. And again. And again.Didn’t have a chance to read the actual study yet - but I’m interested why they didn’t include median earnings for each specialty as well as the means?
For my specialty (derm) some of the same forces including consolidation, increasing both residency slots and midlevels have also come together to decrease earnings for new + younger physicians, albeit perhaps to a lesser degree than radonc.
In derm though there are a handful of high-up private equity owners and celebrity YouTubers/ cosmetic branders that don’t make a “measly” few million in that “top 1%” of doctors- they make hundreds of millions. I would be interested if the study corrected for supreme-outliers like this which could really skew that mean (as well as the “top 1%” numbers). Literally a handful of these could move the mean earnings up 100k or so.
Also, is there any selection bias here (was there any way for doctors to not allow viewing of their anonymized tax info?)
The mean salary data for rad onc misleads a human mind. Just like when I tell everyone that Warren Buffett and my average net worth is over one billion dollars! I don’t even know why I hang out on SDN.