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title: If Crime Doesn't Pay, How About Being A Pediatrician?
description: If Crime Doesn't Pay, How About Being A Pediatrician?
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# If Crime Doesn't Pay, How About Being A Pediatrician?

June 3, 2008

[insurance](https://chipsblog.pcc.com/tag/insurance)

First, I am on the road this week - visiting clients, enjoying some upgrade work (keeps me fresh), and picking up a [new pinball machine](http://www.sternpinball.com/lord-of-the-rings.shtml) while our [old one](http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pins/paragon/paragon_pinball.htm) gets worked on. New Jersey is always an interesting place for me to visit, I must say. Pardon me for my brevity and inattention, meanwhile.

Earlier today, on [PedTalk](http://www.pedtalk.com), Dr. Lessin posted an [eye-opening PDF](https://chipsblog.pcc.com/hubfs/MSSNY_6-08_LoRes.pdf) along with the commentary below:

> I have attached a pdf of the latest Medical society of the State of
> 
> New York issue of News of New York. (This is the only way that I
> 
> could get the data).
> 
> If one goes to page 9, one will see a chart of starting salary by
> 
> specialty out of residency in NYS. At the very bottom, fully 30%
> 
> lower than any other specialty, is general pediatrics. We were 50%
> 
> below other primary care specialties and only a fraction of the
> 
> surgical specialties.
> 
> Who wouldn't want to practice here?

Yikes. Meanwhile, Dr. McGuire claims...stupidity? and looks like [he will keep his hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars](http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/12/27/ex-united-ceo-still-on-the-hook-after-giving-up-620-million/). Hey pediatricians - *that's where your money went. *Maybe crime does pay.

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