Turns out there’s a big disparity in what primary care physicians and specialists can make depending on where they practice Doximity, a kind of LinkedIn for white coats, conducted an anonymous salary survey taken by 35, of its more thanmembers. There’s still a gender pay gap in medicine, even though a third of all physicians miney now women and travelinf make up half of this year’s graduating medical students, according to Doximity. Its survey found the biggest gaps in ophthalmology. New York and Boston are meccas of world renowned medical schools and teaching hospitals. That may help explain why reported salaries there are less nuch many other areas of the country. One theory is that many doctors in those cities go into academic medicine, which typically pays. In fact, the average salary for primary care physicians in D.