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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who want to do pediatrics but the money is a turn off or a non starter in the case of those with a few hundred k in debt, would they not just do neonatology? Wouldn't that be a high paid specialty that still gets you around kids and away from adults? Or is it somehow not high paid?

I mean are there tons of people who WANT to dedicate the next 40 yrs of their lives to ear infections and having to make small talk with 4 year olds??[/quote]
I’m not a physician so wondering why pediatrics pay lower?   Why less love for the poor pediatrician? I always appreciated our pediatrician with our three kids. [/quote]
1. Pediatricians skew more heavily female than other specialties. 
[b]2. Their practice is less driven by procedures, which is how American doctors make money[/b].[/quote]

This exactly.  Pediatricians will work very hard to keep kids from having any procedures, so they end up paid less.

I am a child psychiatrist though, so I get paid twice as much as a general pediatrician to talk to kids about their worries.  But most of my friends who did a triple board in peds/psych/child psych are general pediatricians.  There is something people really enjoy about it.  [/quote]

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