Diagnostic & Image-Guided
Radiology, pathology and anaesthesia: essential, well paid, and largely invisible to patients.
Anesthesiologist
degree requiredKeeps patients alive and unaware through surgery, then wakes them up again. The specialty operates almost entirely outside the patient's memory of it.
11–13 yrs trainingon-callvery strong incomeRadiologist
degree requiredReads the images the rest of medicine depends on, and finds the thing nobody else can see. The highest-paid medical specialty on this site, and the one facing the most serious question about its own future.
12–14 yrs trainingmoderate with peaksvery strong income