Ridiculous Study of the Week: Are Family Docs Underpaid?
Umm, are we really still looking at this? The question is whether family doctors and internists and pediatricians are underpaid? Merritt Hawkins says yes. I say, no sh%t, Sherlock.
That being said, as the AAFP and other primary care groups keep allowing NPs/PAs to equate their education and training with ours then we will only dilute our worth even more. In other words, we get what we f$cking deserve.
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And I sure as H#!! hope med students bust their buns, specialize and stay the H#!! away from FP/straight IM practice. With NP’s getting independent practice rights in more and more states, pay will continue to go down for FP’s dramatically. Especially one a production based system. With EHR, my production went down as I couldn’t see as many patients dealing with computer generated administrative records. Hence my income dropped. Dropped even further when I switched to only seeing patients in the afternoons and not mornings. Still did hospital work and did some call. Fatigue set in after salvage therapy for prostate Ca. Surgery, radiation and 2 years worth of Lupron shots. One ain’t been castrated unless they beens chemically castrated! Hence fatigue land for me. I’m so glad I was able to save up over the years and was just able to retire this July 1st.
Family Docs have been relatively underpaid for decades, really since the whole AMA RVU schedule came out rewarding specialists over generalists. I see the rise of NP’s/PA’s as a result of that problem and not just as worsening it. Over time medical students wised up and went more into specialties.