Despite often having better outcomes, the pay gap between
men and women primary care physicians is growing, a new report says.
About 13,000 doctors in 29 specialties were surveyed for Medscape's
2022 Physician Compensation report, which found that male primary care
physicians earn 25 percent more than women, which is actually a 2 percent
increase from 2012.
Several things factor into that gap, including the fact that it
was long a male-dominated field. Women physicians also tend to go into
lower-paying specialties like pediatrics, family medicine, and psychiatry.
Past studies have found evidence that suggests that women
physicians tend to have better patient outcomes, largely because of how they
approach patient care.
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