TikTok ‘dermfluencers’ have medical students flocking to dermatology, where they can make half a million dollars a year and work four days a week

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Physicians are hardly the shining beacons of maintaining work-life balance, but a growing number of medical students would beg to differ. Many in the upcoming med school classes have found a way to get a doctor’s generous payday without the notoriously long hours associated with the career. They do it by practicing dermatology.

“It’s one of the only fields where you can work 40 hours a week like a normal person,” Dr. Lindsey Zubritsky, a dermatologist in Ocean Springs, Miss., who sees patients three days a week, told The Wall Street Journal.