There is a second market for medical judgement. It does not appear in salary surveys because the buyers are not hospitals. They are investors, manufacturers, insurers, courts, regulators, publishers and software companies, and they buy the same reasoning you already use every day. This report maps that market: who the buyers are, what they pay for, how they source, and why most doctors never see the demand.
- Buyers do not advertise in clinical channels. They source through expert networks, referrals and search.
- Rates are negotiated privately, so there is no public benchmark for a physician to anchor on.
- Most engagements are short, so there is no job posting to see.
- Clinicians filter themselves out, assuming the work requires an MBA or an exit from medicine.