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I've been looking up the median salaries for osteopathic surgeons from many sites, and the numbers have been across the board. Can someone give me a median range of the starting salary of an osteopathic surgeon?
 
Osteopathic refers to the degree delivered at the completion of an osteopathic medicine program. You become a surgeon through residency. The reason you saw varying earnings is because different fields of surgery pay different amounts of money.
 
I've been looking up the median salaries for osteopathic surgeons from many sites, and the numbers have been across the board. Can someone give me a median range of the starting salary of an osteopathic surgeon?

Like Bac said ... the degree doesn't have any say on your salary ... that has to do with residency. What type of surgeon?? General, Ortho, ENT, PRS, Uro, Neuro??? All different salaries. Google physician salaries.
 
MD orthos start at around 400k, Im expecting to start around 200k because I am a DO. Thats life.
 
I assume you're talking about after a DO has completed his or her mandatory five years of work on a volunteer basis.
 
Really? REALLY?!
 
MD orthos start at around 400k, Im expecting to start around 200k because I am a DO. Thats life.

Just curious, where do you get that logic? There is absolutely no difference in salary between MD and DO orthopods. I wouldn't have that mindset so early on in your career either. You get paid based on the location, how busy the practice is, what type of orthopedic specialty you are in, and if you're going into academics.
 
Just curious, where do you get that logic? There is absolutely no difference in salary between MD and DO orthopods. I wouldn't have that mindset so early on in your career either. You get paid based on the location, how busy the practice is, what type of orthopedic specialty you are in, and if you're going into academics.

:laugh:

thank you for setting him straight!
 
Oh Jesus. Really? REALLY?!
 
\Well, I was planning to start making money after graduation, but then I remembered that I wasn't smart enough to be an MD and decided to go to a DO school, and I remembered that for the first 3 years out of school I have to pay a hospital to let me work there!

Ah well. Silly me.




[If you can't tell I'm being stupid and sarcastic, please for the love of God DON'T GO INTO MEDICINE]
 
Haha.

The OPs never seem to come back after making these sorts of threads.... interesting

Probably because the OP asked a legit question, and can't decide whether some people's answers are sarcasm or not
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