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Message: <blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4843297" data-attributes="member: 66082">[URL unfurl="true"]https://hms.harvard.edu/news/unequal-pay-doctors[/URL]We found that the inequities in pay for physicians mirror disparities in the overall U.S. economy,” said <a href="http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/faculty/core/anupam-jena-md-phd" target="_blank">Anupam Jena</a>, senior author of the study and the Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine at HMS, and a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. “Unfortunately, this means that medicine has not been spared the disparities by race and sex that plague the rest of the U.S. labor market.”<a href="https://hms.harvard.edu/news/sign-email-communications" target="_blank">Get more HMS news here.</a>The authors noted that the pay gap is not explained by any of the many factors that are known to influence doctors’ income, such as specialty, number of hours worked, geographical region or number of years in practice.The authors used two nationally representative surveys of physicians to reach their conclusions.The larger of the surveys covered the years 2000 through 2013 and included annual income information for more than 60,000 black and white doctors, both male and female, along with information about age, number of hours worked, and the state in which the doctor practiced. A smaller but more detailed national survey was used to corroborate the findings. This smaller survey included nearly 18,000 physicians and covered the years 2000 through 2008. It provided additional information that allowed the researchers to adjust for specialty, number of years in practice, number of hours worked, practice type, and other factors known to influence doctor income.Both surveys showed the same disparities.In the larger survey, white male doctors had an adjusted median annual income of $253,042, compared with $188,230 for black male doctors, a statistically significant difference of $64,812. Meanwhile, white female doctors had an adjusted median annual income of $163,234, an amount that was not statistically different from the adjusted median annual income of $152,784 among black female doctors.</blockquote>

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