{"id":175,"date":"2012-10-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2012-10-23T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T14:00:00","slug":"disparity-in-pay-divides-doctors-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Disparity in pay divides doctors &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/disparity-in-pay-divides-doctors\/2012\/10\/22\/675233a8-f1e0-11e1-a612-3cfc842a6d89_print.html\">Disparity in pay divides doctors &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>A nice summary of pay disparity in medicine.<\/i><br \/><span contenttype=\"article\" datetitle=\"published\" epochtime=\"1350936520000\" pagetype=\"leaf\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, a medical student confided in me a thought that few in our  profession would dare say aloud: \u201cWe may have come to medical school to help  people, but we choose our specialty careers based on potential salaries.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This in part explains why the most-prized residencies are in fields such as  dermatology and radiology, whose procedures generate high fees. According to a  physician survey by the <a data-xslt=\"_http\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mgma.com\/physcomp\/\">Medical Group Management Association<\/a>, the median income of  specialists is nearly twice that of primary-care physicians \u2014 $384,000 vs.  $212,000. The highest-paid gastroenterologists make about $846,000 a year; the  highest-paid internists make about $352,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>As in most professions, it has long been true in medicine that specialists  earn more than generalists. They train longer and in many cases pay higher  insurance rates, but these factors don\u2019t fully explain the chasm. We\u2019ve now  reached a critical point where the income disparity is harming the general  population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disparity in pay divides doctors &#8211; The Washington Post A nice summary of pay disparity in medicine. Recently, a medical student confided in me a thought that few in our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=175\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disparity in pay divides doctors &#8211; The Washington Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physician-income","category-primary-care"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}