The hypothalamus in the brain is in charge of the stress response. When a stress response is triggered, it sends signals to two other structures: the pituitary gland, and the adrenal medulla.
Patient Services Specialist Salary. Women make up the vast majority of Patient Services Specialists in the United States. The average pay in this industry is approximately $13.71 per hour. Earnings sit near $10.80 per hour on the lower side but can approach $18.11 on the higher side.
Here's how much money doctors actually make. Medscape, a subsidiary of the medical information website WebMD, has released its 2015 Physician Compensation Report. The data in the report come from more than 19,500 doctors in 26 specialties who responded to Medscape's annual survey with information on their compensation for 2014. The average primary care doctor made $195,000; the average specialist made $284,000. But those averages hide quite a bit of variability based on different factors. The infographic below shows the average earnings for each surveyed specialty. Orthopedists, of whom just 9% are women, were the highest earners: