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The Pediatrician As Wage Earner

When the statistics on physicians' earnings come out each year, the pediatricians are close to the cellar. Our colleagues in general practice make a little less; everyone else makes more. We were ahead of the psychiatrists, but they passed us a few years ago. Many of our colleagues have incomes that are multiples of ours.

I doubt whether the general public is aware of these figures. When the newspaper prints the median income for physicians, I wager that many readers would estimate ours even higher. They see our busy offices and decide, "He's rolling in it!" They are right, of course, except for what it is we are rolling in.