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While most doctors see their patients' health naturally slowly decline over the years, as a pediatrician, I see my patients growing stronger and smarter over time.
Being a pediatrician sounds fun however after shadowing some I have found that the child is not only your patient but the parent is too. You have to balance the best care for your patient while also dealing with the parent and finding some middle ground for what the parents beliefs/opinions are. It's much different than working directly with a patient and not having to "code" your words.
Pediatrics, especially general outpatient peds, is extremely boring. All you do is see a bunch of Wel Child Visit (checkups) and boring things like cough/congestion/constipation.
My allergist is a hero. He made it possible to own pets by convincing my parents that owning pets would help. He also opened up the outdoors to me to enjoy hikes without having a faucet for a nose.
I'm suffering from this as well especially when I need o talk to people for a long period , its super uncomfortable you're at this stage when you have to have tissues wherever you go and having bad pronunciation of words and getting breathless even when eating !!!! my doctor - ENT doc- did nothing but gave me an antihistamine that didnt really work . I'm curios did your doc do more?
I am a child and adolecent psychiatrist one of the rarest specialitiest at least in Germany. Our income isn't that high compared to other fields yet we are in high demand even more so after corona. Moreover if you work in a specialist clinic our field outperformes Psychiatry and Pediatry clinics by a lot.
@@chanpiggy3938 look for accelerated paths like the FMAT program at TTUHSC Lubbock, where its 3yrs med school + 3 years FM residency, or programs where they do combined Bachelors+MD programs
Good to know! How about a physician specialty list ranked by the greatest potential for reduction in healthcare spending? Or greatest reduction in chronic diseases? Or specialty which offers greatest access to healthcare for underserved patient populations? Let's give our FM/IM/Peds primary care champs the positive recognition they deserve.
LOVE this comment. I'm a public health/nonprofit geek who's truly uncomfortable with the idea of making and having a lot of money ... I prefer to live simply/frugally and help people sliding-scale in the trades I've been in before, and I don't plan to ever be formally employed as a physician after residency. I'm just aiming for med school because I want to be useful to the same poor and unhoused communities I come from (thank goodness it's getting easier to go affordably or for free haha). I saw this video title and my immediate reaction was "oh good, a list that appeals to me for once!" lol. I'd really love to see more content that focuses on what we can actually ACCOMPLISH with different specialties, at SCALE. There are enough lists upon lists out there ranking specialties according to how they'll benefit the practitioner, but an appalling relative shortage of lists that talk about how much good each can do. More and more of us are going into medicine for medicine, not for money.
@@ItsAsparageese I think physicians work very hard at essential skills and that is often taken advantage of by society. We deserve to be well paid. The biggest mistake would be to allow well-meaning people like yourself to degrade the quality of our future profession and end up like teachers, overworked and underpaid. Don't let the fact that you do good stop you for fighting for the future of our profession. I'd rather physicians be paid very well than cigarette company executives.
@@adeptsaxophonist To be fair, I haven't argued that physicians shouldn't be well-paid; I argued that pay shouldn't be a primary motivator and that more rhetoric about medical life paths should focus on other topics besides pay. Those are completely different positions. :P And pay isn't a competition ... the bit about opposing physicians to cig company CEOs is just a weird nonsensical specious comparison that illustrates nothing, or at least if there's a clear point to make from it then I'm failing to catch it (which would certainly be precedented). I heard that sort of "degrading our profession" language when I graduated massage school and refused to set a standard hourly rate and made my suggested donation low, choosing to work sliding-scale and help whomever I could. Then I went on to earn a great deal of respect both personally and for the profession over several years of being an extremely effective ameliorative medical CMT. I enjoyed breaking down a lot of barriers, both ideologically by teaching incredulous physicians that it's an underrated complementary therapy and often not just complementary, as well as breaking down access barriers for people who didn't previously see themselves as The Type of Person Who Gets Massage due to its fake vile contrived association with luxury. After my extensive experience with homelessness and being part of some other stigmatized groups, I know a thing or two about the impact of self-perception on health outcomes; maintaining barriers to access is a great way to guarantee many millions of people not only don't experience health, but worse, _go on believing on a fundamental level that they don't deserve it._ Someone has to break that cycle. And I think it's a safe bet that it's not going to be someone whose top priority is their fcking income. So, with all due respect for your obviously benevolent intentions (and I feel a little bad that my vehemence might sound more critical of you personally than of the social phenomenon your comment represents to me -- you do seem like a kind person, I mean that!) ... I reject your advice about positions I didn't take and disagree with the judgment about my philosophies being some sort of threat to anyone or any profession's societal worth. Your criticism, gentle and sincere though it clearly is, represents perpetuation of a paradigm that I simply don't agree to be part of. I categorically reject, and consider to be downright poisonous to society, any rhetoric to the effect that anyone's generosity _ever_ devalues anyone else's expertise and skill. That notion is, I'd confidently argue, just crab-in-a-bucket competitive construct garbage that solely serves to pressure people into fake conflicts through guilt and tribalism. I will ALWAYS prioritize actual public health change and patient outcomes, which benefit EVERYONE, over preserving the fragile precious pearl-clutching ivory tower of academic elitism and sneetchery that the medical field has cowered pathetically and impotently within for so long. "We must protect the future of this elite echelon continuing to be viewed as elite" (which of course wasn't your wording, just my read of your subtext) isn't exactly a compelling cause that actually merits anyone being concerned, IMO. I'm much, much more concerned with preventing potentially fatal food poisoning among my peers without fridges/kitchens than making sure people remember to keep associating doctors with wealth. And although in general I argue anyone can care about many things at once, to me/within my moral matrix, those two causes are mutually exclusive. It seems self-evident to me that, if one wants a profession to be recognized as valuable, then the priority should clearly be using that profession to provide value.
The single speciality with the greatest impact in reduction to healthcare spending and which enables maximum access to health care for the masses is politics. Sadly very few pursue it as doctors
Pediatrics is the field I’ve always wanted to be in, I’ve always been happy it has a lower salary than other specialties because that translates to less competition and greater chance I’ll be able to one day have my dream job
While this is very important information to know. However, it is so important to stress that many of the highest paying specialties have the highest burnouts and dissatisfaction despite the money, while some of the lowest paying have the highest satisfaction (Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Palliative Care, etc). The reason, partly, is that some students will simply choose a specialty they may like less because the alternative pays a lot more or they like the number of hours. And then five to ten years into it, they find it ultimately very unfulfilling even though they are able to afford a nicer car. So I am all for full transparency and people should go into it with open eyes but also think more broadly.
Your choice shouldn't be based on money. It should be based on what you love to do. You are going to do this job for the next 30 years. Five days a week!
Psychiatrist here! Lowest pay of all the other doctor's I know, but loving the field. And as the video said, so many possibilities of where to work. Plus would be quite tough to make RUclips videos as a neurosurgeon 😂
Training to be a Psychiatrist in UK Wouldn't want to do anything different. I love Learning about the mind and helping patients understand the mental and emotional problems they are going through. Plus the work life balance is great. Psychiatry involves neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, supernatural entity (at least from the patient's perspective).
I'm an endocrinologist and I'll admit that when I was choosing my specialty (internal medicine) I definitely ruled out psychiatry. I'm simply not cut out to deal with psychiatric problems, though I have no problem relating to patients and I tend to spend quite a lot of time listening to them. It's something that many people appreciate, since according to my patients most doctors seem to be in a hurry and often just dish out prescriptions without apparently listening much to what they're saying.
"Your cousin's goldfish's twin sister's boyfriend is making ten million dollars per year as a psychiatrist" Let that sink in. Not sure what it wants, but let it in.
I enjoy how you executed fitting the "let that sink in" puns-value within your own original statement, lol. Capitalizing on one's own joke setup isn't generally easy to do so smoothly. 10/10 good wordsing
It’d be interesting to see this as a comparison with non-MD but doctorate or masters level medical providers. Physical therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, audiologists, speech pathologists…
Could you do a video on emergency medicine and the job outlook for people in that specialty given the report about an oversupply of EM docs in 2030? I’m interested in pursuing this specialty but would like to learn more about the job market.
Ignore that ! Enjoy EM I would know ER doc here !!!!!! :) My pay per hour will be even higher than the 269/hr shown on the thumbnail. Everyone that I know has great jobs ! or hate your job being a radiologist in the dark but making money !
as an older pre-med, it's so hard to separate finances from passion. I have my family to think about, my aging parents, etc. Infectious Disease sounds really cool but it's another two years of investment without any financial return, maybe you break even. I know it sounds bad but the later in life you start this pre-med game the more important finances seem to become.
Although most doctors don’t come from very wealthy families (or else they’d go into business which earns a lot more plus the networking), belonging to a family financially secure enough to not require you or pressure you to earn much as quickly as possible after finishing school is also a privilege sadly.
@@raphaelledesma9393 I'm quite sure that this isn't true - medicine is a very inbred field and a shockingly high number of doctors come from families of other doctors, whom are all very much in the top 1% of earners.
@@adr77510 You have to consider that wealth is relative in the sense of income vs expenses. For instance, unless the students in question come from high earning doctor families, they may still incur student debt since Med school is extremely expensive. Even this may not be possible if they didn’t come from upper middle class families to begin with.
@@raphaelledesma9393 Debt in medicine is far from a death sentence though - it's relatively easy to pay off and the average physician finishes their career with a 10 million dollar net worth in the US.
This is great to know since earnings is important in order to make a good and comfortable living. I am interested in Infectious diseases, which I hope there will be "So You Want to Be" video of. It keeps the mind running since many symptoms can overlap between different infections, so I am excited for that time. Pediatrics is another I am open to try as well, it warms the heart to see healthy kids and teens grow up. Thanks for this
Ultimately absorb what you see on medical rotations. There's a general consensus that FM is low pay. I've found the sky to be the limit. FM is not dependent on a hospital to preform the job, and has a degree of influence when it comes to who admits their patients into the hospital if they decline to admit themselves. Then you add on your team of mid-levels, and you got your own mini empire. Never mind the FMs that branch into wound care practice.
psychiatry neurology allergy and immunology preventive medicine rheumatology endocrinology pediatrics infectious disease internal medicine family medicine
There are so many variables to the salary thing, I’m signing a contract as a nocturnist for about $350k 7 on and 7 off, and that’s without any bonuses or other considerations. In medicine, you can make all the money or average money.
Kind of insane that nurses fresh out of nursing school with like 1-2 years of experience can make more than anything on this list while travelling at the same time. If you're going into medical school just for the money, just be aware there are much easier and more efficient paths.
Could you elaborate on this if you don't mind? What path ways of nursing earn more than 200k+? As far as I have seen and talked my nursing friends, even NHPs in highly competitive specialties (i.e. dermatology) make around $120-130k. I would appreciate the info/advice, thanks!
@@doctor__clown4992 Travel nursing rates right now (and for the past couple of years) due to COVID have been skyrocketing. I don't mean this as taking shots at them, but you don't even have to search hard for how much they're making, they literally brag about it on youtube, facebook etc. I'm seeing rates as high as $8000/week.
@@gerinimoify Thanks! That's fair, I actually know some of the patients at the clinic I work at who are travel nurses and got ~$10k a week ($200/hr overtime. They were working around 50-60 hours a week), so I definitely see your point. However, they also mentioned that the more the pandemic started to decline, as it is right now, their rates are going down as well. So I think the recent volatilty caused them to make a lot more at the cost of time away from family and ridiculous work hours, but unfortunately their pay will start to normalize once more (still a solid profession regardless for people who are into that lifestyle).
I'm a neurologist. I dont know how true this is. I have received multiple job offers around the country and have gone through over 100 new job opportunities. The lowest I've seen offers about 315k and the highest up to 500k. The jobs offered to neurlogists in the outpatient setting and inpatient setting mostly hover around 350-400k
as an aspiring neurologist, this kinda hurts lol but i feel that $300,000 is still a lot? it might not be as much as certain other specialities but if i'm following my passion and getting paid 300 grand, that's quite enough to live a lavish lifestyle. i'm so passionate about neurology that i wouldn't really think about choosing another specialty just for the money, i don't think i personally would need more than this much anyways
300k is quite a lot of money compared to other jobs (not related to medicine), but it is considered as a low paying speciality compared to other stuff (cardiology, surgical specialties, etc). honestly i think neurologists are underpayed compared to others because their jobs are really complex. i wish you the best of luck in following your dreams (im thinking of thoracic surgery and i consider myself an aspiring surgeon in some way)
300k is just the average mentioned in the video. You can definitely earn more as a neurologist, though it would depend on the hospital, state, or even the success rate of your private practice. Keep working towards your passion without concern for money! Once your passion transforms into high level performance, the money will come naturally. Best of luck in your journey :D!
This is bs lol the averages are all hyper low. im 3 years post residency and pulling 500k doing telestroke +7on7off neurohospitalist work for a total of 50 hrs a week. Starting outpatient offers straight out of residency was in 370k range @40hrs a week and im in Sacramento CA not bumfuck Timbuktu
all these averages on these lists are kept low by big corporate healthcare companies so that physicians will be happy with taking a lower salary. Its common knowledge. Merithawkins is probably the best place online to get accurate annual wages. Also keep in mind i have 5-10+ offers a day from places like North Dakota offering me nearly 15% more to come work there. Neurology is the most in demmand field in medicine because in med school you either love neuro or hate neuro and most ppl hate neuro and doctors just end up carrying that bias on into practice. Dont be put off by this BS become a neurologist you will make a fuck ton of money. Or better yet go into psychiatry like my wife. pay is the same but psych residency is way more chill
Dude what if you do a breakthrough or know the most about your subject because you're passionate about it you could come up with a product or your own special clinic or a research that could make you millions
is it possible for you to make a video that goes into greater detail on pathology? For example, including the pay, advantages and disadvantages, and other general information?
My plumber charges a $250 an hour labor rate. He had to take a few tests to get a license. I think there’s overhead, but it’s probably less than an md in private practice.
Have you ever watched a surgery or the work of any specialist: urologist, obgyn, emergency room doctor, dermatologist. Possibly, on par or dirtier than connecting a couple of pipes. Those of us in the US have to stop looking down on skilled labor. Without plumbers and electricians we’d regress a century. I have a “work from home sit on my ass job” with incredible benefits. I totally believe as a society and community we’re going in the wrong direction when doctors are measuring or choosing their profession based on hourly salaries.
@@___Anakin.Skywalker Plumbing is not that dirty especially if you're in a rural area. Most of the time plumbers are working on clean water systems. Very rarely will you see a plumber getting his hands dirty in the sewage. They're pretty smart and they have ways to get around the problem. If anything they get muddy from time to time and there's nothing wrong with that.
Plumbers make a great living & it is a fantastic overall job. They are in demand and always will be. They can charge whatever they want. Other great jobs include HVAC, electrician.
@@bellalerman9359 I’m 100% in agreement. Skilled trades are often overlooked. The only downside is there isn’t currently a work from home model, but that’s also the case in most medical fields.
My friend is a hospitalist at a cancer hospital and she makes $300,000. It’s her first year out of residency. The internist I work with don’t work anywhere near 50 hours. As you said where you work make a difference.
This values are crazy to me 🤯 As a doctor on my first year of work in Portugal, I make 10$/hour. Even if I ever reach the top of the physician career at the SNS (portuguese NHS), I will only make 33$/hour, maybe a little bit more if I do extra hours and work on weekends
@MIL 030 That makes sense, but the values I wrote about Portugal are before taxes too. About 1/3 of that goes away for taxes, and the more you make, the higher the taxes 😕
you know every country has different roules. Thanks for your explanation but in addition you must consider that in the United States education is not free and the costs, only for med school after college degree, are between 250 and 400k dollars. Many students who don't come from rich families apply for student loans which they have to pay off later.
in Brazil, you can do $20/h as you are out of university. I'm doing ophtalmology residency right now and the payment is $20/ per 12 hours of work haha what a shit bro
I have a feeling pediatric subspecialties will be on this list if they're included, such as adolescent medicine, pediatric endocrinology, and pediatric infectious disease.
I completely agree. Most pediatric patients are assisted by medicaid (even when they are on parents private insurance) then working with an even smaller pediatric population.. I've seen that pediatric specialties can be lower than general practice except for NICU or cardiology. But this can also depend about whether or not the physicians have their own clinical practice.
How interesting! RUclips recommended this to me! It surprised me to know that it's quite a different world in USA compared to the countries on the opposite side of the globe!
My friend is a hospital pharmacist in Texas. He lives in a big house and drives the Mercedes GLS even though his children are grown up and left home. He only does night shifts 1 week on 1 week off.
You know what's absolutely crazy? I recently read an article saying that you need to make at least $123 an hour to live in San Jose, CA. That means despite all the years spent training to become a physician, you won't be able to own a home there if you're any of these specialities (assuming you have no help from other sources outside of your job).
Also, doctors are paid much lower salaries in cities & suburbs, where living costs are higher. Doctors are paid higher salaries in rural areas and small towns, where living costs are low. So the best place to be a doctor is a small, small town or rural area.
I think you are all right about theses specialties, but I think Internal Medicine needs to get a little more deep, there are lots of specialties, I know it would take long, But still thank you for the video it was nice to watch!😊🙂😃 Also thank you for your time!
@@xoxowendy60 He's literally saying he'll pick a specialty that pays less than what he was interested in before and you're saying not to do it for money?
@Mary Dubuisson My bad? Does that change the meaning of what I said or are you just trying to argue / point something out for no reason other than to say I was wrong on something?
I know I’d be a great doctor, I know I’m a kind soul and I go above and beyond the call of duty many many times, but I am so incredibly dumb. I can’t pass exams with ease like everyone else. I put in so much work, passion, and love for the health and well being of others. I go out of my way every day to make people feel better. On the other end, my dermatologist is the most un-passionate, care free, arrogant person I know. However, he was smart enough to pass med school and is now making $400,000+ for touching my face for 5 minutes. I want to give up so badly but I love making people feel better so so much. Advice from anyone??
I never passed a grade in my life and dropped out of high school, and I'm passionate about nonprofit work and I'm aiming for med school now in order to help people, so I feel you. First of all, struggling to learn or perform in conventional academic settings does NOT mean you're dumb. Personally, taking tests is just about the only conventional academic metric I perform well at, and I struggle with my grades in any class that isn't just using a "learn lots of dense info and take tests" structure. So on paper, I look dumb too. Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses in terms of tasks and learning methods, and the usual education system doesn't work for MANY highly intelligent people. Please don't let some simplified archaic abstracted system of numbers discourage your faith in your own intelligence and identity and potential. Secondly, there are loads of ways you can make impacts in healthcare and public health without a medical degree. I'm aiming for med school more out of a sense of compulsion and duty at this point than anything but I've already been in healthcare a while through other trades and I'm a big public health geek and nonprofit geek, and I've skipped around through many other ways of helping people both individually and at scale. Lots of people I met in massage therapy school a decade ago were nursing school dropouts who thought they were dumb but found their calling doing massage and helping people that way, and same goes for all sorts of other healthcare fields and trades; it's okay to need to try things out and experiment and take your time. Your options are literally infinite! Sometimes it just takes some exploration to figure out exactly where your passions and skills can combine and shine the most. :) What are your favorite focus areas/interest areas? Like in any context and at any scale. Specific patient populations, global health issues, specific medical focuses, anything. Ramble at me a bit. What do you most love to study? What ways of helping people make you feel best about yourself? If you had a million dollars and free access to any training you wanted and could live literally any dream and help the world any way you want, what would that look like? Seriously, go full hyperbolic-fantasy, like personally I'd enjoy waking up every day to a menagerie of human and animal patients to take care of, right in my own home/backyard. I know the way I make my goals happen will be a bit different from that but seriously, if you could live in a wild fantasy world where you had infinite time and all the space and resources you could want, what would you do? Let's start there, and then examine what you have to say and see how you can creatively make your own path to living with that kind of satisfaction by way of working with the tools the real world gives you. There has NEVER been a better time to say "screw the system, I'm going to build my own road that works according to my own skills and desires". I'm back in college after a long winding road and forging my own weird way forward now, despite never succeeding in school before in my life and going the roundabout way through a GED and trade school and mistakes and hard lessons and inventing my own options. Now I know what my biggest passions are because I've taken time to play around, and now I get to combine my love of public health and medicine and compsci and I've found what works for me. It just takes time and brainstorming and trying. You can do it too!
I'd rather have you as a doctor tbh. Actually, I don't know you, but that's besides the point. There need to be people out there like you who want to change the hostile culture of medicine. I've seen too many microaggressions while job shadowing, and while I admit that everyone is subject to their own biases (or even compassion fatigue), there needs to be a conscious change. Keep working! Exams are hard. College is hard. But there is always room for improvement. Some tips: - There is always room for improvement in study skills. Have a break (riding the bus, waiting in line, boring church meeting (jkjk), etc.)? Pull out your phone and get on Quizlet! - Go to office hours! - Take a **short** break, and recoup. (or if you're like me, go nonstop until a project is finished, then take a long break the next day, instead of trying to take a break that just turns into a nonproductive week) - Find a hobby that lets off steam but doesn't exhaust you. - Volunteer where you find the most joy. - This RUclips channel has tons of videos explaining various study techniques. Find what works for you. - If a study technique doesn't end up working, or if it is no longer working, drop it and try something else. - Pace yourself in your studying. If you are going too slowly, you may need to have sequential alarms (kind of like the Pomodoro technique reminding you of the passage of time). Just keep going! If you truly have the desire to be a doctor, it may just happen, but you need to put in the work. For some, exams may be easy, but they may struggle with human connection. The world needs both kinds of doctors - having a doctor who cares deeply team up with a quick-thinking doctor can solve a lot of problems.
Same!! I can’t seem to get good grades but I really want to go into the medical stream. I’m still 15, my dad and my sister are both pilots and what I want to do the the exact opposite of what they are doing. It’s so confusing:( Im extremely dumb in school and I don’t get good grades but Im ready to put in the work for doing what I love. You can do this Allan!! All love and support🫶🫶
Where I live and work, if I were making those USA salaries I would be happy. Internship starting salary is $6.08 usd per hour. Cost of living is about 60% of what it is in the USA, however cars, gas and food cost more where I work.
I want to be a pediatrician in preventive medicine but don't know if I can do it due to costs of med school. I love being with and interacting kids tho ( it does involved mental gymnastics) and love making a difference in ensuring healthy kids! Someone help! What can I do to address these feeling I have?
My goal is to be a Family Medicine physician! I don't give a shit about salary! Honestly what they get paid is a lot more than what I make now. I'm an ER Tech so I'm not even making half of that salary. So, to me its more money then I'm use to and enough to be happy!
Most plumbers, electricians and mechanics charge between $80-125 an hour, get paid while working toward their license. Gives pause to spending hundreds of thousands in student loans and spending 8-12 years in school. Just observation.
This data is kind of outdated now. Maybe I’m biased as a neurologist but demand for neurology/psychiatry has gone way up. My base salary is way higher than 290 even in a metropolitan area.
I mean one thing about psych to is that there is a very large growing sector where you can do remote work so I can live anywhere with internet and make 6 figures
You can specialize in Psych and make over $300k. Unsure why it’s even on this list honestly. Pathology should be put in its place or added to this list. They shamefully don’t get paid enough.
I don't understand how Internist (Hospitalist) could possibly work 55 hrs/wk. Most of them work 7 on 7 off schedule. Let's say they work 12 hrs during 7 on, than the avg. would be 42 hrs a week (84/2). Someone please correct me if I am wrong here.
Key word is "average", or rather the implied idea that he's talking about the mean rather than another type of average. Out of a pool of data, the _mode_ might be 7x12 on then 7 off, but that doesn't mean the _mean_ hours worked will match that. The mean average of anything is _affected_ by what value is entered the most, but not _determined_ by it.
This video has some glaring inaccuracies. Dont take it too seriously. Im a neurologist and all my offers are much higher post residency and I work far less than the stated average
It's sad doctors only make a little over 200k per year. I thought they make around 200k per MONTH, given how much expensive health care is especially if you don't have insurance.
This is the second time I see someone think MDs are in the 1-2 million range... we need a public information campaign ASAP, public needs to know who is really hoarding the money in healthcare
@@ericgoespop who hoarding the money then? Cuz I wish some crazy poor dude who can't pay for bills go crazy and jus shoot hospital peoples doctors an nurses. They're fleecing the public
It’s so sad that preventive medicine/public health, arguably the most important medical specialty is one of the least paid specialties. They have it bad by dealing with politicians who won’t prioritize healthcare and corporations who would rather siphon the public than allow public health to win.
Me who doesn't *mostly* care about the money I earn just that I should love what I am doing even if stressed or bored : * clicks anyway * Also me: * Sees the speciality I want to well, _specialize_ in * I- uh- um- okay... * sighs and eats chocolate *
Most Pediatricians work part time. On the west coast the average Pediatrician who works full time makes a lot more than that - although likely working 60 hours a week.
@@dragonfighter786. Semi-retired DPM. Statically, top earning podiatrists earn $210k/yr, 75th percentile earn 166K/yr with an average of $130/yr. Depends on whether you’re in a high power group or solo practitioner. Regular office hours. Rare if any emergencies. You can tailor your practice to what aspects of the profession you like most. Great balance between work and home life. Today, you can expect 4 years of podiatry school, 3 year residency and an additional year fellowship if you choose. All things being equal, you can start earning in fewer years than an MD or DO. A closer look shows you’ll earn almost as much as a family practice physician per hour.
Holy shit!!! $89/hr for the lowest doctors!!!! That's dam as pretty good. And compensation is leading to burnout? That's BS. The other things you mentioned make sense. Just not compensation. And this isn't even Cad presumably. This is American!!
No way!!! Medicine and paediatrics are one of the most desired branches in india. Only Radiology and Dermatology come above General Medicine. And Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Neurology pay a lot more than General Medicine, but they require Superspeciality course. So that's 3 more years of life wasted on studying. But atleast you get better pay. Rheumatologist was the most expensive doctor anybody in my family visited. While GPs charge ₹100 per patient, Most specialists charge ₹200-₹300 Superspecilists charge ₹300-₹400 But that Rheumatologist charged my mum ₹700 for just a 15 minute consultation. And only ended up prescribing Calcium.
My dad and sister are both Allergy and Immunologist’s, they love their field and it provides a very good lifestyle. As someone who is also pursuing medicine I grew up thinking all doctors had good lifestyles. LMAO!
Hey, join the crowd, most everybody in the US is overworked , underpaid and don’t have time to smell the roses. Stress makes us sick then , we have to see a doctor. I do respect your profession, but just wish doctors could afford their own practices, but I know that cannot be in todays world.
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Registered Nurse u didn't add that..
@@racquellazare6074 that’s bc he said doctor specialty…..
Fake information 🤡
While most doctors see their patients' health naturally slowly decline over the years, as a pediatrician, I see my patients growing stronger and smarter over time.
Which must be incredible! 😁
I never thought about it that way
Kinda like ER
@@user-eer555 bruh💀
I love pediatricians they’re just so special. I don’t have the guts to do it, to see children hurt and scared or terminal…
Psych: 250k (double check this for me)
Neurology: 275k (double check this for me)
Allergist: 274k
Preventive Med: 237k
Rheumatology: 276k
Endocrinizzy: 245k
Pediatrics: 221k
Infectious disease: 274k
Internal med: 248k
Family med: 236k
Don’t worry, career daddy has you covered💯
Plumber $520k. Double check?
Any specialty in the Philippines = 7$ per DAY, 80 cents per hour, or 1.9k USD per year
psych is 275k
Majority of these specialties have better lifestyles too
I believe neurology was 290k, and psych was 275k
Being a pediatrician sounds fun however after shadowing some I have found that the child is not only your patient but the parent is too. You have to balance the best care for your patient while also dealing with the parent and finding some middle ground for what the parents beliefs/opinions are. It's much different than working directly with a patient and not having to "code" your words.
I can only imagine these days compared to in the 70s when my mom would take me.
Pediatrics, especially general outpatient peds, is extremely boring. All you do is see a bunch of Wel Child Visit (checkups) and boring things like cough/congestion/constipation.
totally correct
My allergist is a hero. He made it possible to own pets by convincing my parents that owning pets would help. He also opened up the outdoors to me to enjoy hikes without having a faucet for a nose.
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I'm suffering from this as well especially when I need o talk to people for a long period , its super uncomfortable you're at this stage when you have to have tissues wherever you go and having bad pronunciation of words and getting breathless even when eating !!!!
my doctor - ENT doc- did nothing but gave me an antihistamine that didnt really work .
I'm curios did your doc do more?
i am jealous of you, as someone with year round allergies
If you have a faucet for a nose. Just turn the tap. (Dad joke)
I am a child and adolecent psychiatrist one of the rarest specialitiest at least in Germany. Our income isn't that high compared to other fields yet we are in high demand even more so after corona. Moreover if you work in a specialist clinic our field outperformes Psychiatry and Pediatry clinics by a lot.
Family Medicine needs more love
And I'm not talking about more appreciation
They need to be paid a bit more lmao
You can blame Medicaid providers for that.
I want to be a family physician, but my family is not rich. it doesn't seem worth it when I have to take 4years in college then med school
It's getting a lot better. I've seen in change a lot in the last 10 years.
@@chanpiggy3938 look for accelerated paths like the FMAT program at TTUHSC Lubbock, where its 3yrs med school + 3 years FM residency, or programs where they do combined Bachelors+MD programs
@@senseiturtle what change? for the worse? there's no appreciation for family medicine. such a pity.
Good to know! How about a physician specialty list ranked by the greatest potential for reduction in healthcare spending? Or greatest reduction in chronic diseases? Or specialty which offers greatest access to healthcare for underserved patient populations? Let's give our FM/IM/Peds primary care champs the positive recognition they deserve.
LOVE this comment. I'm a public health/nonprofit geek who's truly uncomfortable with the idea of making and having a lot of money ... I prefer to live simply/frugally and help people sliding-scale in the trades I've been in before, and I don't plan to ever be formally employed as a physician after residency. I'm just aiming for med school because I want to be useful to the same poor and unhoused communities I come from (thank goodness it's getting easier to go affordably or for free haha). I saw this video title and my immediate reaction was "oh good, a list that appeals to me for once!" lol.
I'd really love to see more content that focuses on what we can actually ACCOMPLISH with different specialties, at SCALE. There are enough lists upon lists out there ranking specialties according to how they'll benefit the practitioner, but an appalling relative shortage of lists that talk about how much good each can do. More and more of us are going into medicine for medicine, not for money.
Nothing tops a Good primary care physician
@@ItsAsparageese I think physicians work very hard at essential skills and that is often taken advantage of by society. We deserve to be well paid. The biggest mistake would be to allow well-meaning people like yourself to degrade the quality of our future profession and end up like teachers, overworked and underpaid. Don't let the fact that you do good stop you for fighting for the future of our profession. I'd rather physicians be paid very well than cigarette company executives.
@@adeptsaxophonist To be fair, I haven't argued that physicians shouldn't be well-paid; I argued that pay shouldn't be a primary motivator and that more rhetoric about medical life paths should focus on other topics besides pay. Those are completely different positions. :P And pay isn't a competition ... the bit about opposing physicians to cig company CEOs is just a weird nonsensical specious comparison that illustrates nothing, or at least if there's a clear point to make from it then I'm failing to catch it (which would certainly be precedented).
I heard that sort of "degrading our profession" language when I graduated massage school and refused to set a standard hourly rate and made my suggested donation low, choosing to work sliding-scale and help whomever I could. Then I went on to earn a great deal of respect both personally and for the profession over several years of being an extremely effective ameliorative medical CMT. I enjoyed breaking down a lot of barriers, both ideologically by teaching incredulous physicians that it's an underrated complementary therapy and often not just complementary, as well as breaking down access barriers for people who didn't previously see themselves as The Type of Person Who Gets Massage due to its fake vile contrived association with luxury. After my extensive experience with homelessness and being part of some other stigmatized groups, I know a thing or two about the impact of self-perception on health outcomes; maintaining barriers to access is a great way to guarantee many millions of people not only don't experience health, but worse, _go on believing on a fundamental level that they don't deserve it._ Someone has to break that cycle. And I think it's a safe bet that it's not going to be someone whose top priority is their fcking income.
So, with all due respect for your obviously benevolent intentions (and I feel a little bad that my vehemence might sound more critical of you personally than of the social phenomenon your comment represents to me -- you do seem like a kind person, I mean that!) ... I reject your advice about positions I didn't take and disagree with the judgment about my philosophies being some sort of threat to anyone or any profession's societal worth. Your criticism, gentle and sincere though it clearly is, represents perpetuation of a paradigm that I simply don't agree to be part of. I categorically reject, and consider to be downright poisonous to society, any rhetoric to the effect that anyone's generosity _ever_ devalues anyone else's expertise and skill. That notion is, I'd confidently argue, just crab-in-a-bucket competitive construct garbage that solely serves to pressure people into fake conflicts through guilt and tribalism.
I will ALWAYS prioritize actual public health change and patient outcomes, which benefit EVERYONE, over preserving the fragile precious pearl-clutching ivory tower of academic elitism and sneetchery that the medical field has cowered pathetically and impotently within for so long. "We must protect the future of this elite echelon continuing to be viewed as elite" (which of course wasn't your wording, just my read of your subtext) isn't exactly a compelling cause that actually merits anyone being concerned, IMO. I'm much, much more concerned with preventing potentially fatal food poisoning among my peers without fridges/kitchens than making sure people remember to keep associating doctors with wealth. And although in general I argue anyone can care about many things at once, to me/within my moral matrix, those two causes are mutually exclusive.
It seems self-evident to me that, if one wants a profession to be recognized as valuable, then the priority should clearly be using that profession to provide value.
The single speciality with the greatest impact in reduction to healthcare spending and which enables maximum access to health care for the masses is politics. Sadly very few pursue it as doctors
you show how vast and beautiful practicing medicine is no matter what path you choose. thank you!! so inspiring
Pediatrics is the field I’ve always wanted to be in, I’ve always been happy it has a lower salary than other specialties because that translates to less competition and greater chance I’ll be able to one day have my dream job
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While this is very important information to know. However, it is so important to stress that many of the highest paying specialties have the highest burnouts and dissatisfaction despite the money, while some of the lowest paying have the highest satisfaction (Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Palliative Care, etc). The reason, partly, is that some students will simply choose a specialty they may like less because the alternative pays a lot more or they like the number of hours. And then five to ten years into it, they find it ultimately very unfulfilling even though they are able to afford a nicer car. So I am all for full transparency and people should go into it with open eyes but also think more broadly.
Your choice shouldn't be based on money. It should be based on what you love to do. You are going to do this job for the next 30 years. Five days a week!
Psychiatrist here! Lowest pay of all the other doctor's I know, but loving the field. And as the video said, so many possibilities of where to work. Plus would be quite tough to make RUclips videos as a neurosurgeon 😂
What's the typical bread and butter of ur speciality, also well done for becoming a doc!
I want to be a psychiatrist 😍 too 😎
Training to be a Psychiatrist in UK Wouldn't want to do anything different. I love Learning about the mind and helping patients understand the mental and emotional problems they are going through. Plus the work life balance is great. Psychiatry involves neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, supernatural entity (at least from the patient's perspective).
I'm an endocrinologist and I'll admit that when I was choosing my specialty (internal medicine) I definitely ruled out psychiatry. I'm simply not cut out to deal with psychiatric problems, though I have no problem relating to patients and I tend to spend quite a lot of time listening to them. It's something that many people appreciate, since according to my patients most doctors seem to be in a hurry and often just dish out prescriptions without apparently listening much to what they're saying.
@@Vendemiair 😎
"Your cousin's goldfish's twin sister's boyfriend is making ten million dollars per year as a psychiatrist"
Let that sink in. Not sure what it wants, but let it in.
I like to meet that guy lol 😆
I enjoy how you executed fitting the "let that sink in" puns-value within your own original statement, lol. Capitalizing on one's own joke setup isn't generally easy to do so smoothly. 10/10 good wordsing
@@ItsAsparageese you sound like a joke analyser
Keep in mind, even the lowest paying physician specialties pay more than 99% of other jobs in the US.
It’d be interesting to see this as a comparison with non-MD but doctorate or masters level medical providers. Physical therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, audiologists, speech pathologists…
Could you do a video on emergency medicine and the job outlook for people in that specialty given the report about an oversupply of EM docs in 2030? I’m interested in pursuing this specialty but would like to learn more about the job market.
Ignore that ! Enjoy EM I would know ER doc here !!!!!! :) My pay per hour will be even higher than the 269/hr shown on the thumbnail. Everyone that I know has great jobs ! or hate your job being a radiologist in the dark but making money !
as an older pre-med, it's so hard to separate finances from passion. I have my family to think about, my aging parents, etc. Infectious Disease sounds really cool but it's another two years of investment without any financial return, maybe you break even. I know it sounds bad but the later in life you start this pre-med game the more important finances seem to become.
Although most doctors don’t come from very wealthy families (or else they’d go into business which earns a lot more plus the networking), belonging to a family financially secure enough to not require you or pressure you to earn much as quickly as possible after finishing school is also a privilege sadly.
@@raphaelledesma9393 I'm quite sure that this isn't true - medicine is a very inbred field and a shockingly high number of doctors come from families of other doctors, whom are all very much in the top 1% of earners.
@@adr77510 You have to consider that wealth is relative in the sense of income vs expenses. For instance, unless the students in question come from high earning doctor families, they may still incur student debt since Med school is extremely expensive. Even this may not be possible if they didn’t come from upper middle class families to begin with.
@@raphaelledesma9393 Debt in medicine is far from a death sentence though - it's relatively easy to pay off and the average physician finishes their career with a 10 million dollar net worth in the US.
This is great to know since earnings is important in order to make a good and comfortable living. I am interested in Infectious diseases, which I hope there will be "So You Want to Be" video of. It keeps the mind running since many symptoms can overlap between different infections, so I am excited for that time. Pediatrics is another I am open to try as well, it warms the heart to see healthy kids and teens grow up. Thanks for this
I feel like an internal medicine doctor in the inpatient setting definitely works more than 55 hours a week...
Ultimately absorb what you see on medical rotations. There's a general consensus that FM is low pay. I've found the sky to be the limit. FM is not dependent on a hospital to preform the job, and has a degree of influence when it comes to who admits their patients into the hospital if they decline to admit themselves. Then you add on your team of mid-levels, and you got your own mini empire. Never mind the FMs that branch into wound care practice.
Key is to avoid employment at all cost, because then all ur work and over seeing mid levels goes to the employer
psychiatry
neurology
allergy and immunology
preventive medicine
rheumatology
endocrinology
pediatrics
infectious disease
internal medicine
family medicine
There are so many variables to the salary thing, I’m signing a contract as a nocturnist for about $350k 7 on and 7 off, and that’s without any bonuses or other considerations. In medicine, you can make all the money or average money.
Proud Registered Nurse here. PROUD TO BRAG THAT I EARN $100 per Hour. ;)
Kind of insane that nurses fresh out of nursing school with like 1-2 years of experience can make more than anything on this list while travelling at the same time. If you're going into medical school just for the money, just be aware there are much easier and more efficient paths.
Could you elaborate on this if you don't mind? What path ways of nursing earn more than 200k+? As far as I have seen and talked my nursing friends, even NHPs in highly competitive specialties (i.e. dermatology) make around $120-130k. I would appreciate the info/advice, thanks!
Idk too many nurses making over 200k so early on in their career
@@doctor__clown4992 Travel nursing rates right now (and for the past couple of years) due to COVID have been skyrocketing. I don't mean this as taking shots at them, but you don't even have to search hard for how much they're making, they literally brag about it on youtube, facebook etc. I'm seeing rates as high as $8000/week.
@@gerinimoify Thanks! That's fair, I actually know some of the patients at the clinic I work at who are travel nurses and got ~$10k a week ($200/hr overtime. They were working around 50-60 hours a week), so I definitely see your point. However, they also mentioned that the more the pandemic started to decline, as it is right now, their rates are going down as well. So I think the recent volatilty caused them to make a lot more at the cost of time away from family and ridiculous work hours, but unfortunately their pay will start to normalize once more (still a solid profession regardless for people who are into that lifestyle).
It depends on country
I'm a neurologist. I dont know how true this is. I have received multiple job offers around the country and have gone through over 100 new job opportunities. The lowest I've seen offers about 315k and the highest up to 500k. The jobs offered to neurlogists in the outpatient setting and inpatient setting mostly hover around 350-400k
Here in Italy family medicine is the most lucrative specialty. You can even get 3 times the monthly salary of a normal doctor.
wonder why is that?
Me, doctor from a third world country: *laughs in 2$/h*
as an aspiring neurologist, this kinda hurts lol but i feel that $300,000 is still a lot? it might not be as much as certain other specialities but if i'm following my passion and getting paid 300 grand, that's quite enough to live a lavish lifestyle. i'm so passionate about neurology that i wouldn't really think about choosing another specialty just for the money, i don't think i personally would need more than this much anyways
300k is quite a lot of money compared to other jobs (not related to medicine), but it is considered as a low paying speciality compared to other stuff (cardiology, surgical specialties, etc). honestly i think neurologists are underpayed compared to others because their jobs are really complex. i wish you the best of luck in following your dreams (im thinking of thoracic surgery and i consider myself an aspiring surgeon in some way)
300k is just the average mentioned in the video. You can definitely earn more as a neurologist, though it would depend on the hospital, state, or even the success rate of your private practice. Keep working towards your passion without concern for money! Once your passion transforms into high level performance, the money will come naturally. Best of luck in your journey :D!
This is bs lol the averages are all hyper low. im 3 years post residency and pulling 500k doing telestroke +7on7off neurohospitalist work for a total of 50 hrs a week. Starting outpatient offers straight out of residency was in 370k range @40hrs a week and im in Sacramento CA not bumfuck Timbuktu
all these averages on these lists are kept low by big corporate healthcare companies so that physicians will be happy with taking a lower salary. Its common knowledge. Merithawkins is probably the best place online to get accurate annual wages. Also keep in mind i have 5-10+ offers a day from places like North Dakota offering me nearly 15% more to come work there. Neurology is the most in demmand field in medicine because in med school you either love neuro or hate neuro and most ppl hate neuro and doctors just end up carrying that bias on into practice. Dont be put off by this BS become a neurologist you will make a fuck ton of money. Or better yet go into psychiatry like my wife. pay is the same but psych residency is way more chill
Dude what if you do a breakthrough or know the most about your subject because you're passionate about it you could come up with a product or your own special clinic or a research that could make you millions
is it possible for you to make a video that goes into greater detail on pathology? For example, including the pay, advantages and disadvantages, and other general information?
My plumber charges a $250 an hour labor rate. He had to take a few tests to get a license. I think there’s overhead, but it’s probably less than an md in private practice.
It's an extremely dirty job though. Think about it. Yuck!!
Have you ever watched a surgery or the work of any specialist: urologist, obgyn, emergency room doctor, dermatologist. Possibly, on par or dirtier than connecting a couple of pipes. Those of us in the US have to stop looking down on skilled labor. Without plumbers and electricians we’d regress a century. I have a “work from home sit on my ass job” with incredible benefits. I totally believe as a society and community we’re going in the wrong direction when doctors are measuring or choosing their profession based on hourly salaries.
@@___Anakin.Skywalker Plumbing is not that dirty especially if you're in a rural area. Most of the time plumbers are working on clean water systems. Very rarely will you see a plumber getting his hands dirty in the sewage. They're pretty smart and they have ways to get around the problem. If anything they get muddy from time to time and there's nothing wrong with that.
Plumbers make a great living & it is a fantastic overall job. They are in demand and always will be. They can charge whatever they want. Other great jobs include HVAC, electrician.
@@bellalerman9359 I’m 100% in agreement. Skilled trades are often overlooked. The only downside is there isn’t currently a work from home model, but that’s also the case in most medical fields.
I would get a MD/MBA degree in family medicine. Go out and get some experiences and open like 5 medical centers and imaging all over the city.
These might be the lowest paid specialities but given the average amount of hours worked per week that’s amazing
My friend is a hospitalist at a cancer hospital and she makes $300,000. It’s her first year out of residency. The internist I work with don’t work anywhere near 50 hours. As you said where you work make a difference.
If it's okay for you to answer, what is the general area that your friend works at?
@@luckyvalley7318 she is an internist. She covers the urgent care center overnight
@@cassball7 ty!!
Throughout the video, I was waiting for Pathology. Shocked it didn’t make the list!
This values are crazy to me 🤯 As a doctor on my first year of work in Portugal, I make 10$/hour. Even if I ever reach the top of the physician career at the SNS (portuguese NHS), I will only make 33$/hour, maybe a little bit more if I do extra hours and work on weekends
here the salaries are reported before taxes, so the amount is actually about half of what you see here
@MIL 030 That makes sense, but the values I wrote about Portugal are before taxes too. About 1/3 of that goes away for taxes, and the more you make, the higher the taxes 😕
you know every country has different roules. Thanks for your explanation but in addition you must consider that in the United States education is not free and the costs, only for med school after college degree, are between 250 and 400k dollars. Many students who don't come from rich families apply for student loans which they have to pay off later.
in Brazil, you can do $20/h as you are out of university. I'm doing ophtalmology residency right now and the payment is $20/ per 12 hours of work haha what a shit bro
@@DrRafaelDantas voce ganha em dolares ou voce quer dizer que ganha 20R$ a hora?
I have a feeling pediatric subspecialties will be on this list if they're included, such as adolescent medicine, pediatric endocrinology, and pediatric infectious disease.
I completely agree. Most pediatric patients are assisted by medicaid (even when they are on parents private insurance) then working with an even smaller pediatric population.. I've seen that pediatric specialties can be lower than general practice except for NICU or cardiology. But this can also depend about whether or not the physicians have their own clinical practice.
I don't think it's true for surgery specialties like pediatric neurosurgery for example
@@liv0003 thats because thats a subspecialty under the neurosurgery residency program, not the traditional pediatric residency route.
@@TinaOnEarth yes, I Know
How interesting! RUclips recommended this to me! It surprised me to know that it's quite a different world in USA compared to the countries on the opposite side of the globe!
My friend is a hospital pharmacist in Texas. He lives in a big house and drives the Mercedes GLS even though his children are grown up and left home. He only does night shifts 1 week on 1 week off.
You know what's absolutely crazy? I recently read an article saying that you need to make at least $123 an hour to live in San Jose, CA. That means despite all the years spent training to become a physician, you won't be able to own a home there if you're any of these specialities (assuming you have no help from other sources outside of your job).
Also, doctors are paid much lower salaries in cities & suburbs, where living costs are higher. Doctors are paid higher salaries in rural areas and small towns, where living costs are low. So the best place to be a doctor is a small, small town or rural area.
Doctors on the coasts are paid the least, doctors in "fly-over" country are paid more.
For your records, Locum tenens physicians make good money. I am IM and i make $210/hr.
I found Neurology surprising, perhaps because it wasn't Neurosurgical.
I think you are all right about theses specialties, but I think Internal Medicine needs to get a little more deep, there are lots of specialties, I know it would take long, But still thank you for the video it was nice to watch!😊🙂😃 Also thank you for your time!
I’ve always been interested in cardiology but immunology seems pretty interesting too especially after watching this ☺️😅
never do it for the money
@@xoxowendy60 He's literally saying he'll pick a specialty that pays less than what he was interested in before and you're saying not to do it for money?
My Dad is a radiologist, and I know it's private but he gets paid 9000$ after 3 weeks
@Mary Dubuisson My bad? Does that change the meaning of what I said or are you just trying to argue / point something out for no reason other than to say I was wrong on something?
Both are fascinating. I do believe that immunology has a wider "unknown territory and potential".
I know I’d be a great doctor, I know I’m a kind soul and I go above and beyond the call of duty many many times, but I am so incredibly dumb. I can’t pass exams with ease like everyone else. I put in so much work, passion, and love for the health and well being of others. I go out of my way every day to make people feel better. On the other end, my dermatologist is the most un-passionate, care free, arrogant person I know. However, he was smart enough to pass med school and is now making $400,000+ for touching my face for 5 minutes. I want to give up so badly but I love making people feel better so so much. Advice from anyone??
I never passed a grade in my life and dropped out of high school, and I'm passionate about nonprofit work and I'm aiming for med school now in order to help people, so I feel you.
First of all, struggling to learn or perform in conventional academic settings does NOT mean you're dumb. Personally, taking tests is just about the only conventional academic metric I perform well at, and I struggle with my grades in any class that isn't just using a "learn lots of dense info and take tests" structure. So on paper, I look dumb too. Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses in terms of tasks and learning methods, and the usual education system doesn't work for MANY highly intelligent people. Please don't let some simplified archaic abstracted system of numbers discourage your faith in your own intelligence and identity and potential.
Secondly, there are loads of ways you can make impacts in healthcare and public health without a medical degree. I'm aiming for med school more out of a sense of compulsion and duty at this point than anything but I've already been in healthcare a while through other trades and I'm a big public health geek and nonprofit geek, and I've skipped around through many other ways of helping people both individually and at scale. Lots of people I met in massage therapy school a decade ago were nursing school dropouts who thought they were dumb but found their calling doing massage and helping people that way, and same goes for all sorts of other healthcare fields and trades; it's okay to need to try things out and experiment and take your time. Your options are literally infinite! Sometimes it just takes some exploration to figure out exactly where your passions and skills can combine and shine the most. :)
What are your favorite focus areas/interest areas? Like in any context and at any scale. Specific patient populations, global health issues, specific medical focuses, anything. Ramble at me a bit. What do you most love to study? What ways of helping people make you feel best about yourself? If you had a million dollars and free access to any training you wanted and could live literally any dream and help the world any way you want, what would that look like? Seriously, go full hyperbolic-fantasy, like personally I'd enjoy waking up every day to a menagerie of human and animal patients to take care of, right in my own home/backyard. I know the way I make my goals happen will be a bit different from that but seriously, if you could live in a wild fantasy world where you had infinite time and all the space and resources you could want, what would you do? Let's start there, and then examine what you have to say and see how you can creatively make your own path to living with that kind of satisfaction by way of working with the tools the real world gives you.
There has NEVER been a better time to say "screw the system, I'm going to build my own road that works according to my own skills and desires". I'm back in college after a long winding road and forging my own weird way forward now, despite never succeeding in school before in my life and going the roundabout way through a GED and trade school and mistakes and hard lessons and inventing my own options. Now I know what my biggest passions are because I've taken time to play around, and now I get to combine my love of public health and medicine and compsci and I've found what works for me. It just takes time and brainstorming and trying. You can do it too!
I'd rather have you as a doctor tbh. Actually, I don't know you, but that's besides the point. There need to be people out there like you who want to change the hostile culture of medicine. I've seen too many microaggressions while job shadowing, and while I admit that everyone is subject to their own biases (or even compassion fatigue), there needs to be a conscious change. Keep working!
Exams are hard. College is hard. But there is always room for improvement.
Some tips:
- There is always room for improvement in study skills. Have a break (riding the bus, waiting in line, boring church meeting (jkjk), etc.)? Pull out your phone and get on Quizlet!
- Go to office hours!
- Take a **short** break, and recoup. (or if you're like me, go nonstop until a project is finished, then take a long break the next day, instead of trying to take a break that just turns into a nonproductive week)
- Find a hobby that lets off steam but doesn't exhaust you.
- Volunteer where you find the most joy.
- This RUclips channel has tons of videos explaining various study techniques. Find what works for you.
- If a study technique doesn't end up working, or if it is no longer working, drop it and try something else.
- Pace yourself in your studying. If you are going too slowly, you may need to have sequential alarms (kind of like the Pomodoro technique reminding you of the passage of time).
Just keep going! If you truly have the desire to be a doctor, it may just happen, but you need to put in the work. For some, exams may be easy, but they may struggle with human connection. The world needs both kinds of doctors - having a doctor who cares deeply team up with a quick-thinking doctor can solve a lot of problems.
Same!! I can’t seem to get good grades but I really want to go into the medical stream. I’m still 15, my dad and my sister are both pilots and what I want to do the the exact opposite of what they are doing. It’s so confusing:(
Im extremely dumb in school and I don’t get good grades but Im ready to put in the work for doing what I love.
You can do this Allan!! All love and support🫶🫶
Where I live and work, if I were making those USA salaries I would be happy. Internship starting salary is $6.08 usd per hour. Cost of living is about 60% of what it is in the USA, however cars, gas and food cost more where I work.
Where do you work?
As i glimpsed through the timeline where do you think might pathology stand?
I want to be a pediatrician in preventive medicine but don't know if I can do it due to costs of med school. I love being with and interacting kids tho ( it does involved mental gymnastics) and love making a difference in ensuring healthy kids! Someone help! What can I do to address these feeling I have?
Doctors at Family Medicine can open their own clinics. And find a PA to help them. The income from such a practice medicine model is quite amazing !
Why are my top 2 specialties always on this list 😭
Endocrinologist don’t need salaries
They have laboratories at their back
Clicked on this thinking it was highest paid specialties, was very very confused for a few minutes
I didn't imagine that neurology would have been on this list.
well it’s neurology not neurosurgery
I wish we had any equivalent channel in my country. I’m from Belgium and there’s nearly 0 content/info about becoming a doctor.
True and now I regret choosing medicine lol
What an international student should do to take his residency program in the US I am from Jordan BTW
Don't forget our astronomical expenses we have to pay out of our salary which is not mentioned in this video.
Give example
Just going to point out:
That's one rich goldfish
My goal is to be a Family Medicine physician! I don't give a shit about salary! Honestly what they get paid is a lot more than what I make now. I'm an ER Tech so I'm not even making half of that salary. So, to me its more money then I'm use to and enough to be happy!
please do a so you want to be a pathologist.
no psychiatrist is working 47 hours. like none
Most plumbers, electricians and mechanics charge between $80-125 an hour, get paid while working toward their license. Gives pause to spending hundreds of thousands in student loans and spending 8-12 years in school. Just observation.
Palliative medicine would probably be on this list if it is recognized in North America like in UK,Australia or NZ
Must be nice to think $89 an hour is slave labor :/
This data is kind of outdated now. Maybe I’m biased as a neurologist but demand for neurology/psychiatry has gone way up. My base salary is way higher than 290 even in a metropolitan area.
I mean one thing about psych to is that there is a very large growing sector where you can do remote work so I can live anywhere with internet and make 6 figures
You can specialize in Psych and make over $300k. Unsure why it’s even on this list honestly. Pathology should be put in its place or added to this list. They shamefully don’t get paid enough.
Pathology gets paid more than psychiatry according to medscape.
This is the lowest side? I'm on 4:12 and all of them make over $100/hr!!
Is preventive medicine here means occupational medicine, or occupational medicine is NOT one of the lowest paid specialties?
I don't understand how Internist (Hospitalist) could possibly work 55 hrs/wk. Most of them work 7 on 7 off schedule. Let's say they work 12 hrs during 7 on, than the avg. would be 42 hrs a week (84/2). Someone please correct me if I am wrong here.
Key word is "average", or rather the implied idea that he's talking about the mean rather than another type of average. Out of a pool of data, the _mode_ might be 7x12 on then 7 off, but that doesn't mean the _mean_ hours worked will match that. The mean average of anything is _affected_ by what value is entered the most, but not _determined_ by it.
This video has some glaring inaccuracies. Dont take it too seriously. Im a neurologist and all my offers are much higher post residency and I work far less than the stated average
@@BoredMD That’s awesome
It is worthy to sacrifice few bucks for Job satisfaction!!!!You can probably compensate low paycheck with a side hustle!!!
Much lower in the Philippines . . . The pay is extremely low, around 400 Pesos (7 $) PER DAY . . . or 80 cents per hour
I definitely would choose infectious disease and Neurosurgical practices.
It's sad doctors only make a little over 200k per year. I thought they make around 200k per MONTH, given how much expensive health care is especially if you don't have insurance.
This is the second time I see someone think MDs are in the 1-2 million range... we need a public information campaign ASAP, public needs to know who is really hoarding the money in healthcare
@@ericgoespop who hoarding the money then? Cuz I wish some crazy poor dude who can't pay for bills go crazy and jus shoot hospital peoples doctors an nurses. They're fleecing the public
Preventive medicine is more commonly practiced by IM, FP, Peds
It’s so sad that preventive medicine/public health, arguably the most important medical specialty is one of the least paid specialties. They have it bad by dealing with politicians who won’t prioritize healthcare and corporations who would rather siphon the public than allow public health to win.
What abt dermatology??
And plastic surgeon
Please made a video about history of community health officers
Im the twin sister goldfish and my bf does make 10,000,000 p/y
Me who doesn't *mostly* care about the money I earn just that I should love what I am doing even if stressed or bored : * clicks anyway *
Also me: * Sees the speciality I want to well, _specialize_ in * I- uh- um- okay... * sighs and eats chocolate *
Most Pediatricians work part time. On the west coast the average Pediatrician who works full time makes a lot more than that - although likely working 60 hours a week.
Pretty sure anesthesiologists spend the least overall time on paperwork
Would it be possible to do a video on Postbac MD programs?
neurology should be one of the highest paid in my opinion
Exactly, an extremely difficult specialty too
it’s not neurosurgery
Hi could you please do interventional radiology and Radiotherapy ❤️❤️❤️
Ophthalmology is not on the list why!!??
Where does pathology specialty stand?
What about clinical genetics, isn't that pretty low?
Where does podiatric medicine figure in this?
i wanna know too. just in case i decide to do that
@@dragonfighter786. Semi-retired DPM. Statically, top earning podiatrists earn $210k/yr, 75th percentile earn 166K/yr with an average of $130/yr. Depends on whether you’re in a high power group or solo practitioner. Regular office hours. Rare if any emergencies. You can tailor your practice to what aspects of the profession you like most. Great balance between work and home life. Today, you can expect 4 years of podiatry school, 3 year residency and an additional year fellowship if you choose. All things being equal, you can start earning in fewer years than an MD or DO. A closer look shows you’ll earn almost as much as a family practice physician per hour.
Holy shit!!! $89/hr for the lowest doctors!!!! That's dam as pretty good. And compensation is leading to burnout? That's BS. The other things you mentioned make sense. Just not compensation. And this isn't even Cad presumably. This is American!!
No way!!!
Medicine and paediatrics are one of the most desired branches in india.
Only Radiology and Dermatology come above General Medicine.
And Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Neurology pay a lot more than General Medicine, but they require Superspeciality course. So that's 3 more years of life wasted on studying. But atleast you get better pay.
Rheumatologist was the most expensive doctor anybody in my family visited.
While GPs charge ₹100 per patient,
Most specialists charge ₹200-₹300
Superspecilists charge ₹300-₹400
But that Rheumatologist charged my mum ₹700 for just a 15 minute consultation. And only ended up prescribing Calcium.
Where’s pathology in this list?
Are these gross or net average per hour rates?
My dad and sister are both Allergy and Immunologist’s, they love their field and it provides a very good lifestyle. As someone who is also pursuing medicine I grew up thinking all doctors had good lifestyles. LMAO!
Hey, join the crowd, most everybody in the US is overworked , underpaid and don’t have time to smell the roses. Stress makes us sick then , we have to see a doctor. I do respect your profession, but just wish doctors could afford their own practices, but I know that cannot be in todays world.
5:22 my pediatrics office said I was too old after 15
8:57 those ECGs scare me
Is this only for doctors? I’d love to learn about the ICU setting.
High pay, shitty hours.
Could you do more information on reproductive endocrinologists?
only about 35% of MD and OD students finish,
I’m early so educational