net compensation for FP

[LasagnaBoy]

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Hi,

I am not a doctor, but I am considering medicine as a career choice. If I do go into medicine, I think that family practice would suit me the best, but I have heard they are not compensated that well. Money is not that important to me, but I don't want to spend 100k+ going into a field when my compensation won't even allow me to pay back my massive loans in a reasonable amount of time. So I am wondering, what is the average net compensation for a FP? I tried googling it, but I can't seem to find anything that isn't dated.

Also, what is the average medical malpractice premium for a FP (w/o obstetrics)? Thanks.

 

[Pureride]

Please search the forum history about this.

THE HORSE IS DEAD!

I think a more appropriate and refreshing topic would be .....Why is it...that so many of the questions on the FM forum are about money?

And they all start with...."Mney is not that important to me".....yeah right dude. Thats why you are not even in medical school yet, and your only question on this forum is about money.

Don't mean to vent on you...but, I can tell you in only knowing you for 4 seconds that medicine is not for you!

 

[Faebinder]

Is it really that hard to use google?

http://www.allied-physicians.com/salary_surveys/physician-salaries.htm

 

[racerx]

Please search the forum history about this.

THE HORSE IS DEAD!

I think a more appropriate and refreshing topic would be .....Why is it...that so many of the questions on the FM forum are about money?

And they all start with...."Mney is not that important to me".....yeah right dude. Thats why you are not even in medical school yet, and your only question on this forum is about money.

Don't mean to vent on you...but, I can tell you in only knowing you for 4 seconds that medicine is not for you!

Jebus! Cut the guy some slack. Just because money is semi important to someone doesn't make them unsuitable to be a doctor, even a family medicine doc. I would say that being an assuming @$$ that says, "I can tell you in only knowing you for 4 seconds that medicine is not for you" appears less suited from a people-person perspective.

While you may be different, many if not most of my classmates are not only in medicine for purely selfless reasons. Many are looking forward to a respectable income too.

Also, if everyone simply googled or searched for old posts on SDN, new conversations/threads would become increasing rare here as time passed. Sometimes it is nice to reintroduce a subject for those of us that don't live on SDN and appreciate new perspectives as opposed to opinions from 3 years ago. Otherwise, we could just reduce SDN to a database of previous, stale knowledge.

Ease up on newbies. G_d forbid people would be accepted here without having to deal with a ration of $h!t from the self appointed pseudo-mods.

 

[deleted87716]

So I am wondering, what is the average net compensation for a FP? I tried googling it, but I can't seem to find anything that isn't dated.

It's in the FAQ: http://donors.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=158415

Also, what is the average medical malpractice premium for a FP (w/o obstetrics)?

Unanswerable, as rates vary from state to state, and depend on many factors.*

Closing. Please read the FAQ, and feel free to post any additional questions you may have that it doesn't answer.

*Edit: For example, a new graduate who does outpatient medicine only, with no procedures, will pay considerably less than a doc who's been in practice for at least seven years (the length of the statute of limitations for filing malpractice actions in many states) and does hospital medicine and office procedures like vasectomy, colonoscopy, treadmill stress testing, etc.