Medscape released its 2018 Medscape Physician Compensation Report examining a variety of compensation-related factors throughout the industry.
Overall 55 percent of physicians believe they're fairly compensated.
Here are the percentages by specialty.
- Emergency medicine: 74 percent
- Pulmonary medicine: 70 percent
- Dermatology: 70 percent
- Public health and preventive medicine: 69 percent
- Psychiatry: 68 percent
- Pathology: 67 percent
- Oncology: 66 percent
- Radiology: 65 percent
- Cardiology: 65 percent
- Anesthesiology: 65 percent
- Infectious disease: 65 percent
- Rheumatology: 63 percent
- Otolaryngology: 62 percent
- Family medicine: 61 percent
- Neurology: 60 percent
- Nephrology: 59 percent
- OB/GYN: 58 percent
- Gastroenterology: 57 percent
- Critical Care: 56 percent
- Ophthalmology: 54 percent
- General surgery: 54 percent
- Pediatrics: 53 percent
- Orthopedics: 51 percent
- Internal medicine: 51 percent
- Urology: 51 percent
- Plastic surgery: 50 percent
- Allergy: 47 percent
- Endocrinology: 47 percent
- Physical medicine: 46 percent