10 Happiest Medical Specialties With the Most Satisfied Doctors

9. Critical Care

Overall satisfaction rate: 55%

Often called intensive care medicine, critical care caters to the need of those patients who require constant observation, surveillance and the support of machines to live and breathe. These practitioners have to look after terminal patients on a regular basis, which is bound to be a difficult job. They do, though, earn $306K on an annual basis for their hard work.

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