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American Podiatrists See Higher Incomes
2008-02-11 12:30:00 If your heart seems like an overworked organ, then those foots deserve some sympathy of carrying your weight all its life ;-) As defined by the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) , 'Doctors of Podiatric Medicine (DPMs) are physicians and surgeons who practice on the lower extremities, primarily on feet and ankles." Also known as the Foot Doctors, a 2006 Study of Podiatry incomes in More About: Higher
Weekend MDsalaries Snippets
2008-02-10 17:59:00 Never before have I been so interested in political news - thanks to Barack Obama for giving me a fresh new feel & respect about what politics is meant for and what it can potentially do. I almost neglected writing on this blog - but, I am back to typing away on what amused me this week: - Dentists have been perceived to make good incomes in America, a lot of money for lesser work hours, but we More About: Weekend
Why Group Practice Pays more than Solo Practice
2008-02-08 10:44:00 The Primary Care specialties in US include the Following: Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics & Obs-Gynecology. In a solo-practice model, a single physician runs a clinic employing own nurses and/or a physician assistants and a receptionist. In a group-practice a group of physicians in the same or different specialties come together to practice as a 'group' to share space, equipment, More About: Practice , Solo , Pays , Group
Hepatologist Salaries in USA
2008-02-07 12:00:00 While covering Gastroenterology incomes in USA, we saw how gastro-trained MDs make big bucks due to the procedural nature of the specialty with colonoscopy being the chief 'cash-cow' procedure - prompting the common joke : 'Gastroenterologists spend most of their lives in the colon'..LOL. Hepatology is less procedural and more consultation-heavy sub-specialty of Gastroenterology. Since insurance
Lifestyle > Income : U.S. Docs 2007 Job Priority Survey
2008-02-05 23:56:00 It's close to a year now since we looked at the Top reasons why U.S. physicians leave a job - flipping the equation to the other side - a 2007 survey conducted by the well known physician recruitment firm, Jackson & Coker, looked at the top reasons why US physicians / residents choose a specific job. Here are the top 8 reasons: 1. Lifestyle of the area 2. Potential Income (i.e. income growth More About: Survey , Priority
Off-shore "HIFU" gives U.S. Urologists a reason to Hi-Five
2008-02-05 12:00:00 Medical tourism makes it possible for American patients to travel abroad to get cheaper treatments, it may seem paradoxical then, that American physicians could travel abroad to actually get paid higher than in the United States. But that is exactly the kind of money that a fairly new treatment for Prostate cancer, called High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU), is offering the American More About: Reason , Shore
Doctor Salaries in Armenia
2008-02-04 12:00:00 Armenia, a former part of the Soviet Republic, is now a democratic country that sits on the northeastern border of Turkey, along with Georgia (We already got a snapshot of the doctor incomes scene in Turkey) Armenia on Google Maps Here are what the typically poor incomes look like for well-experienced physicians in this Feb 2008 News article on ArmeniaNow: 1. Trauma Surgeon: 66,000 Drams / mth More About: Armenia , Doctor
Weekend MDsalaries snippets
2008-02-03 03:58:00 You would probably snicker, laugh or not even believe it when I say I am leaving for the movie "Rambo" in sometime ....Good or Bad lets see, but as a kid, I was pretty smitten by the Rambo series and I can go to long extents to relive some nostalgic moments. Awrite - lets keep aside my personal life and talk MDsalaries ! Here's some stuff to delve over the weekend : 1. Can A Flat-Fee-Per-Visit More About: Weekend
Are Physicians Allowed to Self - Advertise ?
2008-01-31 09:13:00 Q. Are Physicians Legally Allowed to Advertise in USA / Canada ? Is Physician Advertising Considered Ethical Practice ? I opine that, besides the business aspect, advertising does serve an important need for the health-service needing society - the need to know what their options are objectively, without deception. On the legal side, any advertising in American must comply with federal
Low Pay makes Cardiothoracic Surgeon Sell Pills Instead
2008-01-30 13:15:00 And when that happens to someone like Dr. Jack Brock - who was personally trained by Dr. Michael Debakey, (considered the God of Cardiac surgery in America) - that should raise many eyebrows. [ Note: The Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and the VA hospital at Houston, TX is named after Michael E. DeBakey ] The more glamorous, hi-tech and Interventional Cardiologists & More About: Sell , Pills
Doctor Salaries in Turkey
2008-01-30 00:59:00 As MDsalaries blog slowly but definitely moves along on its mission of being a resource on doctor incomes all across the globe, I must thank this article from the Turkish Daily News for physician income figures in Turkey . Turkey that lies sandwiched between the proper European countries on the left and the middle-eastern countries on the right is a pretty rich country and classified as a More About: Doctor
New Hot Salaries for Hospital Consultants in Ireland
2008-01-28 13:00:00 Somewhere in the middle of January 2008, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) negotiated a salary deal with the public Health Service Executive (HSE), wherein the HSE will pay the consultant doctors around €240,000 per annum in salary ( $345,000 per year in Jan 2008 US Dollars) besides additional offering of perks, ON THE CONDITIONS THAT: 1. these doctors work ONLY for the public More About: Ireland , Ulta
Weekend MDSalary Snippets
2008-01-26 11:40:00 Nothing seems to be too special for me about this weekend as I sit down to mull and write - hence I am gonna get down to the snippets right away: - As a kid, when I first heard the word hospitality I thought it implied a state of being in a hospital but quite to the contrary, as age advanced, I began to realize that hospitals were the last places to find hospitality - unless you had loaded More About: Weekend
The Rich, Teenaged "Radiologist" of Russia
2008-01-25 13:00:00 This is not a breaking news or anything - an old story, but since money and a physician specialty is involved, it merits attention on MDsalaries blog ;-). Previously I wrote about Russia n Doctors being paid around $150 to $400 per month - hence it was most singular to note a 2005 report on a 17-year old girl who claimed to possess 'psychic X-ray vision" actually making much more than trained More About: Rich
Total U.S. Physician Pay for 2006 = 462 Billion Dollars
2008-01-24 00:49:00 Payment for Physician services accounted for 22% of the total 2006 healthcare expenditure of 2.1 Trillion Dollars in the United States, as per the latest report by Healthcare Affairs, other big expenditures were Hospital services (31%), drug spending (8.5%) See additional distributions her (Pie-Chart) There were probably around 850,000 or so active, practicing physicians in the United More About: Total , Billion
Medical Malpractice Insurance Premium Quotes Database
2008-01-23 13:00:00 Lack of information transparency has always plagued the US Health care system, possible true for most healthcare across the world. It has always been tough for me to find a good, free resource on sample malpractice insurance premium quotes for physicians by specialty, by state, location and year - but news and articles scattered over the world wide web surely have lotsa data strewn all over the More About: Medical , Insurance , Quotes , Database , Medical Malpractice
Alternative Minimum Tax: A Primary Care Docs' Pain
2008-01-21 13:00:00 The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) in the US was introduced way back in 1969 to tackle some high earning families who could apply so many tax exemptions that they ended up owing no taxes at all. Even in the present day, the super-wealthy Americans are taxed lower than the lower income brackets - like Warren Buffet who made $45 Million in 2006 paid a 17..5% tax while his lady secretary who made More About: Pain , Care , Primary
Weekend MDsalaries Snippets
2008-01-20 13:00:00 Facebook has begun to get on my nerves for all the mass invites to mostly useless 'applications' people tend to send out, coz' that's how facebook has designed the process - making it easier to just send it all 'friends' rather than selecting a few - am sure many of you agree to the excellent article that Tom Hodgkinson wrote about Facebook :-) I was most taken aback by this recent application More About: Weekend
The Hospital Administrative Food Chain in USA ;-) [PIC]
2008-01-19 02:32:00 When a professor in one of my management classes asked our class to submit a picture or a drawing of what we visualized a Health administrator as, this is what my morbidly-humored mind came up with: Whatever your comments might be - What matters to me is it did humor the prof and I got my extra grade ;-) - though that might come across as a pretty kiddish piece of art considering that I used More About: Food , Hospital , Administrative , Chain
Who are the Richest Physicians in America ?
2008-01-18 17:45:00 Do we define a physician by a person's profession or Medical education ? That is, if a person got his MD degree but ran a real estate business or like Dr. Rose who became a shoe designer after her surgery residency- do we still call him/her "physician" ? It would probably be impossible for a physician to be a richest 'physician' if he earned money from his medical practice alone - the bigger More About: America
Mohs Surgery Incomes Decline for U.S. Dermatologists
2008-01-16 12:23:00 America First spent tons of money destroying Iraq to oust Saddam and then spent tons of money again trying to rebuild Iraq - now that's my own apology-needing analogy to how Medicare traditionally spent its money paying the Dermatologists who practiced Mohs Micrographic Surgery ;-) . Mohs surgery is a two-step procedure that fellowship-trained Dermatologists use to excise a tumor off the skin
Pain Medicine Salaries in USA
2008-01-15 13:00:00 Pain, as the human physiologists would like point out, is of survival importance to humans - it helps protect the body parts from harmful stimuli by immediately bringing our attention to them and withdraw from them. Yet, there can be times when the body overdoes it and pain itself becomes a 'pain in the neck'..like the symptom becoming a disease. That's when the pain doctors are consulted and More About: Medicine , Pain
Weekend MDsalaries Snippets
2008-01-12 13:15:00 Been a cold week and a rainy week - I like the rainy part, but the cold part makes me wonder if Global Warming has even impacted my part of the globe ;-) Here's a li'l something for your weekend... - Dr. Patrick Chan, a Canadian Neurosurgeon in Arkansas saw some really financially rich months making $200,000 a month (He made almost $10,Million!) Of course Neurosurgeons make great money in USA ( More About: Weekend
Pediatric Neurology (Child Neurology) Salaries in America
2008-01-11 13:00:00 A Pediatric Neurologist is a physician for whom a kid is a "bundle of Nerves" - LOL....that was some real bad humor but a good start line for this article ;-) A 2005 Article featured on Neurology .org by the America n Academy of Neurology mentioned the average income of Child Neurologists to be about $150,000/- a year. In this 2004 article, a Pediatric Neurologist says: "Pediatric neurologists
Dr. Bansal Makes $8 Million Off Web-Pharmacy
2008-01-09 12:17:00 Dr. Akhil Bansal, an Indian Physician studying for an MBA Degree at the Temple University in Philadelphia, had far more business life going on than merely getting an MBA - an Internet Pharmacy that got him $ 8 Million Dollars within a very short span of time ! The idea was simple - ship-in cheap drugs from India and provide them at lower than market rates to around 60,000 people in America. The More About: Arma , Ansa
US Medical Education remains a Rich Kid domain
2008-01-08 12:08:00 With the 2007 America medical student debt now averaging even higher at $140,000 and other economic sacrifices that come with it - it is a child's guess that only the affording economic classes will continue to dominate the medical school classrooms. A recently published report by the Association of American Medical Colleges reports the following, speaking of quintiles of median household More About: Education , Rich , Domain , Mains
American versus Australian, European Hospital Doc Pays
2008-01-07 12:00:00 A 2004 analysis done by the Economic consultants at the National Economic Research Associates came up with the following summary comparison of average Hospital salaries earned by Doctors : USA: $266,733 Australia: $203,132 Netherlands: $175,155 Britain: $127,285 France: $116,077 Italy: $81,414 Denmark: $73,236 Spain: $67,785 Germany: $56,455 See the Original More About: European , American , Australian , Versus
Weekend Snippets @ MDsalaries
2008-01-06 21:53:00 The funny thing about Medical Information in America is that it DOES NOT belong to the patient - patients have complete rights on their own information, but the official medical information itself (Medical records, lab reports, radiographs, etc. ) belongs to the health care provider / institution. That said, if I wanted a copy of my own medical history, I need to pay ! Doctors in Florida now More About: Weekend
In Australia, Dentists are the Highest paid Fresh Grads
2008-01-04 05:04:00 ...And Doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and civil and mining engineers follow them up. This specifically applies to fresh-out-of-professional college positions. As per this news article, the average pay that dental graduates fresh out of dental college were paid was about $68,000/- a year in Australia n dollars in 2007, which corresponds to about $59,771.71 in United States Dollars (Rate on 3rd Jan More About: Paid , Fresh
US Physician Work Hours per Week by Medical Specialty
More articles from this author:2008-01-02 19:01:00 At this point, for want of a more latest and more comprehensive survey - I am quoting the figures from Dorsey R. (2003) article from JAMA : "Influence of Controllable Lifestyle on Recent Trends in Specialty Choice my US Medical Students: Anesthesiology 61.0 Hours Dermatology 45.5 Hours Emergency Medicine 46.0 Hours Family Practice 52.5 Hours General Surgery 60.0 Hours Internal Medicine 57.0 More About: Work , Week , Physician 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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