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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. 
2. Their practice is less driven by procedures, which is how American doctors make money.[/quote]

That's a damn shame.....  A doc you trust to take care of your children gets paid the least!   Yes..this is exactly what is wrong with medicine in this damn country.  Too much greed and the whole damn thing has been commercialized and volume based.  Come to think of it, i would call it anti trust.   In what other professions  be in professional or trade, does the lobby (AMA in this case) "restrict" the specialists, thereby keeping supply low vs. the ever increasing demand for healthcare.   I don't feel sorry for all those specialists docs who spend half of their good life buried into text books, clinics, and loans and then must work their a$$ off to do up to 25 procedures a day to make a comp of $400K or so.    [/quote]

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