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Only a surgical subspecialist at the top of his game --which means an established practice with a reliable flow of patients--like an orthopod who specializes in knees who's 45 years old and owns his own practice with a hoard of junior partners--he might pull down $500k a year.

Now, Tiller the Killer in Kansas brings in about $800K on late term abortions.

By the way--we're due for a serious shortage in surgeons and surgical subspecialists. Women, who make up half of medical students trend away from surgery and surgery specialties. The numbers are already declining. Also--these docs are the ones retiring early, so we're losing experience. We're way down on trauma surgeons--hospitals are starting to rate themselves lower levels of trauma center because of it.

Just in time for overweight America to ruin their knees, hips and backs, and to get into car wrecks in Orlando.