Here's how much money doctors across the US make, for doing everything from brain surgery to treating kids and people with cancer

Family doctors and pediatricians tend to make some of the lowest physician salaries in the US.

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Specializing in surgery has a reputation for being a demanding, but lucrative, profession. That held up in the Doximity report, with other high-paying specialties including dermatology, cardiology and plastic surgery.

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The gender pay gap is real, and persists in medicine, too. Some of the specialties where it appears to be smallest include hematology (treats blood diseases), rheumatology (musculoskeletal diseases) and thoracic surgery (operations on chest organs like the heart and lungs).

Meanwhile, some of the biggest discrepancies between what male and female physicians are paid can be seen in pediatric pulmonology (treats breathing problems in kids like asthma), otolaryngology (head and neck surgeons) and urology (treats diseases related to the bladder, kidneys and more).

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