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[BLADEMDA]

Was your estimate of 350k for PP or for academic? I was under the impression that academic anesthesiologists were more like 250-300k but also with an easier lifestyle/workload to match.

Plenty of my friends are making $350K in academics. In fact, that's the average salary in many locations for an Academic Anesthesiologist with 5 years+ experience with a fellowship.

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[BLADEMDA]

These numbers are from 2012 so you can assume that salaries are likely $10-$15K higher in 2016.

 

[aimedicine]

Yes, $187K after tax is upper middle class. In addition, I think $350K is a very realistic salary for a fellowship trained Anesthesiologist especially Peds, pain or Cardiac. If you add in your spouse's income of $100K+ then your lifestyle should be pretty good.

Now, as for what the job entails I doubt you fully grasp it at this point. Supervising 4 rooms is not a fun way to spend your career and if you can make a living covering 2 rooms (academic) or doing your own cases then I recommend that route.

What about a split 50/50 of pain and general anesthesia...i like pain but i can't completely give up general anesthesia to do it, afterall that's why i went into anesthesia to begin with

And the idea of spending years to learn a craft and never getting the satisfaction of utilizing that craft sounds like a cruel and unusual punishment....i can't imagine spending my whole career supervising and not actually doing my own cases.

 

[deleted171991]

And the idea of spending years to learn a craft and never getting the satisfaction of utilizing that craft sounds like a cruel and unusual punishment....i can't imagine spending my whole career supervising and not actually doing my own cases.

That's the future of medicine. Preventing midlevels from ****ing up, until they get good enough so that they don't need supervision anymore... then you're fired.

Don't fool yourselves that midlevels and/or supervision are not about replacing doctors. Or should I say eliminating?