Alex Jahangir, MD, currently serves as vice chair of orthopedic surgery and director of the division of orthopedic trauma at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., and recently received the William W. Tipton Jr., MD, Leadership Award from the…
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Public health and preventive medicine physicians, medicine's lowest-paid specialists, earned nearly 60 percent less than plastic surgeons, the highest-paid specialists, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report" for 2023.
Plastic surgeons, medicine's highest-earning specialists, earned an average of $619,000, whereas the lowest-paid specialty earned $249,000, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report" for 2023.
The salary gap between male and female physicians has narrowed for the first time in five years, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report" for 2023, published April 14.
Here are the best and worst states across a variety of metrics that Becker's has reported on since March 22:
Orthopedics has the least amount of female physicians when compared to other specialties with just 10 percent of women making up the orthopedic workforce, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report 2023."
Washington, D.C., physician Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, MD, was charged and arrested for alleged unlawful distribution of opioids in exchange for cash.
Resident physicians with lower ratings in professionalism are more likely to receive patient complaints in early post-training practice, according to a study published April 11 in JAMA Network Open.
Health insurance marketplace Covered California has appointed Monica Soni, MD, chief medical officer.
Physicians spend an average of 15.5 hours per week on paperwork and administration, with an average of nine hours spent on electronic health record documentation, according to the Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report" for 2023.