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| Hospitalist Salaries seem to move in one direction: Upwards! |
| 2010-03-16 07:37:00 |
It was 1996 when the term "hospitalist" was first coined by Drs. Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman and today the word is a hot-demand career choice for many Internal medicine residents & hospitals. 2 months ago when I uploaded my resume on a popular physician jobs to see what the hospitalist market looked like, I got 4 phone calls within the first 30 minutes and by evening my voicemail was full! I...
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| State-wise Internal Medicine malpractice premiums: 2009 |
| 2009-12-20 10:50:00 |
Here are some malpractice premium figures showing the big state-wise variations in Internal Medicine (like any other specialty). If you going to be an employed physician, these are usually paid by the employers as a benefit, ( & are not included in the quoted annual salary figure). Premiums will probably factor in more if you were contemplating solo-practice, private group practice or are granted...
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| MDsalaries crosses 2 Million Visitors |
| 2009-11-03 23:08:00 |
This post is intended to have only one reader - Me ! ;-) Lol..yea..a 'vanity post' , which certainly makes me feel good - especially when i see these numbers despite slacking off from any blogging lately ...2 Million sounds good to me. Hmm...must be those comments from you guys that keep the Google pagerank rolling !Well since I am posting something anyways, why not make a quick reference to what...
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| UK Family Docs making upto £380,000/year ! |
| 2009-08-25 04:08:00 |
And that's even more that the £270,000 (More than US $600,000 in Dec'07 rates) made by Britain's highest paid General Practitioner in 2007. In Aug 2009 exchange rates, £380,000 translates to $622,000 US Dollars. (Yup, Pound has depreciated against the US greenback)These salary rises have been occuring ever since a 2004 NHS payment contract that gave rich bonuses for extra work, weekend work and...
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| Alberta to pay MDs >$500/hr for H1N1 Flu care |
| 2009-08-20 10:02:00 |
Yet another example of "Danger Pay" like a previous post about Canada paying upto $155,000 per month to docs to work in war-zone Afghanistan, the Alberta providence in Canada is thinking about paying doctors more than $500 an hour to treat swine flu patients in case on a pandemic. Many countries are stepping up their contingency plans for the coming fall. (As for me, I have made sure that I...
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| Attending urges me to consider "Roth IRAs" during Residency |
| 2009-08-19 09:22:00 |
This post is geared more towards International Medical Graduates starting residencies in the US and are planning to settle in the US, since I expect the American Grads to already know about this.An IRA stands for 'Individual Retirement Account', a provision of tax-sheltered or exempt investments for the purpose of retirement. It is money you start saving with the intention of not using until you...
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| The 2008 "Health Care Dollar": MD expense = 33% |
| 2009-08-01 16:52:00 |
Discussing the split-up of the "health care dollar" i..e tracking how the insurance premium dollars are spent, was always a favourite figure on presentations when I studied for my Masters in Health Administration. Here's an image of the 2008 health dollar spending profile, based on a 2008 study by PricewaterhouseCoopers :Source: www.ahip.org/content/default.aspx?docid=25127So as of 2008, Doctor...
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| A Look into Top-Doc salaries @ Univ. South Florida |
| 2009-06-20 11:10:00 |
Salary Data = Feasting time for MDsalaries blog ! Lol 2008 figures made public about employees at University of South Florida reveal the following top earning designations:Chair & Professor1. Dermatology = $ 1.3 Million 2. Surgery = $843,514.003. Ob / Gyn = $532,374.004. Neurosurgery = $528,691.005. Pediatrics = $347,192.006. Psychiatry = $341,502.00Molecular Medicine = $325,000.00 7. Neurology =...
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| Basics: Socialized v/s Single-Payer v/s Universal Healthcare |
| 2009-06-10 06:25:00 |
Every once in a while, this blog might go into a "tutorial mode" - but that's more so for me than for you fellas, since teaching is the best form of learning and there is a lot for me yet to learn !Socialized Medicine / Healthcare: System of healthcare delivery where the government owns the healthcare facilities and all healthcare providers are direct employees of the governmente.g. Britain's...
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| Should Non-Profit Hospital Salaries be Capped ? |
| 2009-06-08 06:09:00 |
I just reading this interesting article giving an interesting angle to looking at salaries in Non-profit sectors, with the reporter being amused about finding that that non-profit organizations could also pay tons of dollars in salaries:"Working for or leading a nonprofit does not necessarily mean taking a vow of poverty, as the Times Herald-Record discovered" and then gives a list of salaries...
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