Best Paid Docs Not Sure They Would Do It Again

Orthopedists are the highest paid doctors, earning an average $413,000 annually. Those specializing in the treatment of AIDS and HIV are the lowest paid at an average of $174,000. Male doctors earn more than women, but at least some of that may be explained by the fact that there are far more women physicians under 45 years of age than there are men. Overall, there’s a 50/50 split among doctors about whether they are fairly compensated. And regardless of gender, 64% of dermatologists (who earn an average of $308,000)  feel they are fairly compensated. The orthopods? Only 45% of them think that. One last data point: those physicians whose incomes rank at the lowest end of the scale — family practitioners, pediatricians, HIV/AID among them — are far away the most likely to choose medicine again if they had it to do over. (They might, however, choose a different specialty.) Medscape