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The honest facts medicine doesn't put on the brochure
Sourced, limitation-labeled cards on income vs lifestyle, the sleep/call tax, fellowship ROI, geography, ownership, and the blind spots in public data. Filter by what you're deciding, share the card, or turn it into your own report.
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Neurosurgeons in the NPPES roster
One of the smallest surgical workforces in American medicine.
The national neurosurgery roster is small enough that the job market behaves like a professional guild: individual departures move local markets.
Limit: NPI registry roster; does not guarantee full-time clinical FTE..
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Are these numbers real?
Each card is labeled with its source tier: source-labeled public data (CMS/NPPES/Open Payments proxies), a modeled scenario (from the target-life engine), or an expert-reviewed assumption. Nothing is presented as a guaranteed salary or an individual physician's income.
Can I share these?
Yes. Every card exports as a clean 1080×1080 square, 1080×1920 story/reel, or 1200×628 social preview (PNG or SVG), with the source tier, limitation, and a doctorcalculator.com link baked in. Web Share is used where available, with copy-to-clipboard as a fallback.
Why do some cards mention 'proxy' data?
Public datasets like CMS Medicare are partial, payer-biased slices. Useful for structure, not income. Those cards say so, and they're withheld entirely if our data-validation healthcheck isn't currently passing.
How do I turn an insight into my own answer?
Every card has a 'Build my report from this' button that opens the report builder, where the general relationship becomes your specific, private scenario.