The Relationship Cost of Residency: How Training Strains Partners, Friendships, and Family
Nobody hands you a syllabus for this part. You get the rotation schedule, the call calendar, the ACGME hour caps that everyone quietly knows aren’t quite real. What you don’t get is a warning that residency will also quietly renegotiate every relationship in your life — and that you won’t notice it happening until someone […]
Emergency-Medicine PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Somewhere in Fergus Falls, Minnesota — population roughly 14,000, winters roughly forever — a CompHealth listing is offering $480,000 a year to run an emergency department.
Geriatrics PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
The highest-paying Geriatrics job in America is located, with a straight face, in Sun City, Florida.
Physician Pay Rises on Volume, Not Value
Physician compensation is rising, but productivity gains are outpacing pay increases—meaning physicians earn less per unit of work despite higher total salaries. This structural dynamic demands strategic recalibration of how physicians evaluate offers and negotiate contracts in a volume-dependent compensation environment.
Dermatology PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Somewhere near Paradise Valley, Arizona, a single Dermatology listing is offering up to $1,000,000 a year to look at skin.
Cardiology PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
The highest-paying Cardiology listing in America right now is not in Manhattan, not in Beverly Hills, and not in some gleaming Boston teaching hospital.
Breast Surgery PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Spokane, Washington — population roughly 230,000, famous mostly for being not-Seattle — is currently home to the highest-paying Breast Surgery listing in the country.
Cardiology-Noninvasive PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Kentucky pays noninvasive cardiologists an average of $800,000.
Cardiology-Interventional PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Somewhere in Sterling, Illinois — a town most Americans could not locate on a map without generous hints — a hospital is prepared to pay an interventional cardiologist up to $990,000 to thread catheters through coronary arteries.
Anesthesia PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Somewhere in Attleboro, Massachusetts, a hospital briefly advertised an Anesthesia role paying $8,400 a year (roughly what a board-certified anesthesiologist bills before their second coffee).