How Much do Retina Specialists Make?

[Dusn]

Becoming a well known, highly paid LASIK surgeon is probably not as common as becoming a highly paid retina doc.

It might have been in the past. I know a retina specialist who switched to full-time refractive surgery maybe ~20 years ago when refractive surgery was booming and now wants try to get back into doing medical retina because he can no longer find enough refractive patients. Similarly, ~7 years ago my friends in radiology couldn't find jobs and now there's a severe shortage of radiologists. Times change and sometimes the job market seems cyclical.

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[Dr.K124]

It might have been in the past. I know a retina specialist who switched to full-time refractive surgery maybe ~20 years ago when refractive surgery was booming and now wants try to get back into doing medical retina because he can no longer find enough refractive patients. Similarly, ~7 years ago my friends in radiology couldn't find jobs and now there's a severe shortage of radiologists. Times change and sometimes the job market seems cyclical.

Back then the Retina lifestyle was pretty bad, relatively, so I bet that was part of it as well.

Now it’s barely any worse than comprehensive.