Top 10 Highest-Paying Medical Jobs

there are may jobs that are not filled in the medical feild... apperently you have no idea what your talking about there were over a million jod openings in the medical field that need to be filled. were falling behind on all types of doctors. and just the generl orthapedic. (exucse my spelling)nurses exseceialy are suffering. once all of the baby boomers retire there:ll be some 2 million nurseing jobs that need to be filled. so no keep going to school in the medical field. we need more people in it.

We need more General Practitioners actually. I was recently appauled with how long I had to wait to get an appointment for a sore throat. It was something like three weeks. When call in and my boss expects a doctor's note I have to tell him that he'll get it when I do. They tell me if it's bad call 911 of go to the ER. This is rediculous. The patient loads on GP's have gotten out of hand and too many medical students that are making it through are specializing in fields such as psychiatry and pediatrics because that is where the $$$$$$$ at.

Please stop sending every frikkin kid to college to be a doctor....There are already to many grads and not enough jobs that the medical profession has to keep creating sub specialties to keep people working. FFS Orthopedics alone is split up into so many subs that there is a doctor for every single bone in the body now. You have to visit and pay out the nose to numerous docs like this these days and its insane.

I ran into a couple who were newly made doctors that got their degrees in central america today. They were complete 20 something year old idiots whithout a clue as to how things work but they did not care because they were convinced that in NY they could make millions. God help us if we allow these type of people to work on us.

This is utter nonsense. Money is much more easily made elsewhere. Be a plumber start at age 18 be a journeyman by age 22 have a strong six figure income for 30 years and retire when you are 50. The last reason to go to medical school is to make money. The people who put this piece (of @#*%) together show zero insight and demonstrate why "journalism" should not be regarded as a profession.

Whatever happened to going into medicine for the simple satisfaction of helping people. It doesn't have to be as expensive as you think to go into medicine. You can cut costs by tens of thousands of dollars by going to a lesser known school. For example, I go to CSUN instead of Berkely or UCLA. I could have easily gotten into either school, but I made my choice based on tuition costs and distance from home. That cuts costs immediately right there. But these people think you have to graduate top of your class from Princeton, then go to Harvard med school to be a doctor. Of course that would run you hundreds of thousands of dollars. But med school admissions aren't looking at that. This is what they want in order of descending importance: GPA, MCAT, Volunteering, Research, extracurriculars. It doesn't have to cost a fortune, and if you are going into a medicine for money, you are in the wrong profession. Medicine should not be about making big bucks, it should be about caring for others who need it most.

Check out www.avalonu.org which has been operating now for a while - it attracts mostly students of Indian origin - they include Indo-Canadians and Indo-Americans. Students of all backgrounds should explore studying medicine. Avalon is in Curacao. Check out all the details on their website and for more info call their toll free number.

Wow, I never realized how many poorly informed people there were out there. People really don't seem to be aware of how much money it takes to get into medicine. Following 4 years of undergraduate studies which can range in cost of 80k-200k+ they have medical school which you can add another 200k. Plus all of the additional costs of certification that KEMPT114 mentioned.
With malpractice insurance sometimes costing upwards towards 175-200k its no wonder there is such a charge for doctors services and for them to have such a high pay.
With some doctors coming out of medical school with around 400k dollars worth of debt (think of all the interest that will pile on up as the years pass) in addition to the cost of malpractice they dont have it as easy as people think. When you think about the kind of work they are doing, certain docs work in a very high stress environment all the time, many docs are on call 24/7 and have horrible hours for years on end until they are well established and even then their hours can be rough. Soooo, when you say they are blood suckers, dishonest, hoodwinkers or whatever think about how little time they can spend with family on top of all their work and education. Not too easy.

glad you guys had fun last night i am so sad i missed it

An honest businessman will welcome cash customer with the highest discount.Not the doctors.The most poor people that do not have insurance and pay cash are charged the highest,nondiscounted "rack" rate.
They dont have choice,there is not big company behind them to demand more reasonable rate.So they pay multiples of what the institutions negotiate.The result is that what perhaps poor person could afford to pay is not afforded to him. The ourageous charges are turned to lawyers and collection vultures with skyhigh interest added...till such people go bankrupt.Out of their home they go,sleeping in the car and "pulling themselves by bootstraps"per Republican Rx.
There is a million such families each year. Enjoy your yacht Mr. Hyena M.D.