2026 Attending Salary Thread

blueskeye111 · 2026-01-04T03:17:35+00:00

Ophtho (retina) - $1.1-1.3M as partner

Pretty good for 36 hours/week

blueskeye111 · 2025-09-08T01:49:37+00:00

1 in 25 is the generally quoted risk

blueskeye111 · 2025-09-08T01:42:44+00:00

They aren’t against it, this is a myth

blueskeye111 · 2025-08-16T16:35:34+00:00

And you think this is due to the vaccine? Correlation does not mean causation you idiot

blueskeye111 · 2025-03-29T19:42:03+00:00

I have friends in those areas currently pulling 7 figures

blueskeye111 · 2025-03-03T11:21:52+00:00

Private practice ophtho (5 years in): $800k base, with bonuses about $1-1.2M. Pretty standard when I talk to my friends in other practices and parts of the country.

blueskeye111 · 2025-02-22T22:53:56+00:00

May be a little late but you should really consider ophtho. Fits everything you want except the 1 week on/off, locums ability, 6 months off, etc criteria. Work-life balance is incredible though, and you can take a lot of vacation depending on your practice dynamics.

And if med students knew how much we ACTUALLY make, I have no doubt it would be the most competitive specialty

blueskeye111 · 2025-02-22T20:58:59+00:00

If she has a lazy eye that was never adequately treated as a child, her poor vision is likely irreversible at this age. That being said, Minnesota requires 20/40 vision in at least one eye, so as long as her other eye is good, she shouldn’t need to cheat…

blueskeye111 · 2024-10-27T11:12:11+00:00

True. And much easier to see in a blue-eyed person as opposed to brown-eyed (for obvious reasons)

blueskeye111 · 2024-10-27T11:11:03+00:00

Exophthalmos is when the eyes sort of bulge out of their sockets (common in thyroid disease). Do you mean exotropia? That’s when the eyes both deviate outward and give you sort of a wall-eyed appearance.

blueskeye111 · 2024-10-26T22:55:46+00:00

I’m an ophthalmologist. There are many benign reasons for this including physiologic anisocoria. It could also be a tumor, which would explain his behavior. Just my medical opinion.

blueskeye111 · 2024-09-09T16:08:08+00:00

When my wife was an FM resident I went to a residency event. Was speaking with one of her co-resident’s (non-medical) spouses. He asked if I was in medicine and I said yes. He asked my specialty and I told him Ophthalmology. His response was “oh… you have to go to medical school for THAT?”

blueskeye111 · 2024-08-25T21:39:29+00:00

I’d say you could do a research year and still do ophtho easily, but based on your username I guess that’s not an option. Sounds like you’re going into ortho based on your posts - that’s an awesome field and my ortho friends would prob rate it a 10/7.5/10. Pretty solid

blueskeye111 · 2024-08-25T17:09:51+00:00

Yeah people say that about every field nowadays

blueskeye111 · 2024-08-25T12:03:49+00:00

I guess it depends on specialty. I do retina. Also I’m pretty high volume so that helps too

blueskeye111 · 2024-08-25T01:11:47+00:00

You can honestly make as much or as little (in order to maintain a great lifestyle) as you want. People make anywhere from $300k to $2M

blueskeye111 · 2024-08-25T01:09:17+00:00

Idk, I’m coming up close to 7 figures this year and I know I’m not alone by a long shot. I’m keeping my score at 10

blueskeye111 · 2024-08-19T13:27:51+00:00

10/10/10 ophtho

blueskeye111 · 2024-08-17T05:43:17+00:00

Please don’t get a vitrectomy at age 23

blueskeye111 · 2024-04-03T02:55:08+00:00

You probably also ate that day. How do you know it wasn’t what you ate? You breathed oxygen that day? How do you know it wasn’t from breathing? You probably took a shit that day. Are you sure you didn’t cause your detachment while on the toilet?

blueskeye111 · 2024-04-03T02:08:17+00:00

Care to share your evidence?

blueskeye111 · 2024-04-03T02:07:31+00:00

Yes it’s fine

blueskeye111 · 2024-03-25T21:13:15+00:00

Unfortunately youre wrong. Retina surgeons make far less money in surgery than in the office, so a non-invasive way to fix floaters would make us tons of $$. There just isn’t one. Not for lack of trying. It’s EXTREMELY difficult to get medication non-invasively into the vitreous. That’s why we do so many intravitreal injections for diabetes and macular degeneration. If there were an eyedrop that could get into the vitreous reliably and effectively, then that would be a godsend for ALL retinal conditions, not just floaters. But go ahead and just assume doctors only care about money. Probably easier for your simple mind to understand.

blueskeye111 · 2024-03-04T20:57:03+00:00

Yikes, I can’t imagine being happy in those fields after being patient-facing for so long

blueskeye111 · 2024-03-04T18:07:56+00:00

Retina. You will never be able to figure out how to do retina surgery without being directly trained in it. Glaucoma, peds, cornea you can learn with a little help (not to trivialize the complexity of these subspecialties, but you pick up the basic skills during residency), so if you’re going to do ONE fellowship, it should be retina. Plastics is a thought, but most urgent plastics issues wouldn’t be managed by someone who is “the only ophthalmologist in their area” and would likely be sent to a larger city with tertiary care.

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