> How much money does a doctor need to make? If patients are looking for open heart surgery, brain surgery, or something else that's life-and-death? It's amazi

> How much money does a doctor need to make? If patients are looking for open heart surgery, brain surgery, or something else that's life-and-death? It's amazing how quickly people start looking for "one of the best surgeons in our state." And I don't blame them! If somebody is going to saw open your skull and stick a scalpel in your brain, you want the medical equivalent of a respected senior Google engineer, and not a fly-by-night outsourced IT subcontractor. Similar issues apply with rare or weird medical conditions. In these cases, front-line doctors might see a condition once in their career. But there's a specialist somewhere that deals with those conditions all day long. If you ask your regular physician to try to diagnose something weird, you may wind up getting expensive tests like an MRI, whereas a specialist might instantly recognize that an MRI is useless.