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Skilled Wound Care
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

General Surgeon

SurgeryNo callNo weekendsNo nightsContract

Listed compensation

$200k-$300k

The week · per this posting · Monday – FridayWeekdays only

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Job Description

  • Job Title: General Surgeon
  • Location: Philadelphia, PA
  • Employment Type: Full-time or Part-time
  • Salary: $200,000 – $300,000 per year for Full-time
  • General Surgeon Jobs in Philadelphia, PA: Same Surgical Skills, a Better Way to Practice

You trained for years to become a General Surgeon. But across the country, surgeon shortages mean longer hours, heavier call and less time for life outside medicine. Top-tier General Surgeons shouldn’t have to give up their health, families and weekends for their careers.

Skilled Wound Care, a premier national physician group, is hiring General Surgeons in Philadelphia, PA to work as wound care physicians and lead wound care initiatives in skilled nursing facilities across the area.

Maybe you’re a General Surgeon ready to step away from endless call rotations, OR block-time battles and productivity targets at large health systems. Maybe you want clinical autonomy outside the high-pressure hospital environment. Either way, this no-call General Surgeon job offers a high-impact surgical career without the corporate red tape.

Why General Surgeons in Philadelphia, PA Choose Wound Care

In a specialty where being on call can mean missed dinners, cancelled vacations and 2 a. m. emergency cases, we offer a refreshing alternative:

The “No-Call” Lifestyle: No nights, no weekends and no pagers. No 2 a. m. emergency cases. This is a true Monday–Friday surgeon job, so your evenings and weekends belong to you and your family.

Keep Your Surgical Skills: Surgical debridement and bedside procedures stay part of your daily practice.

A Sustainable Surgical Career: Bedside procedures are far less physically demanding than long OR cases, so the strain on your back, neck and shoulders goes down and you can keep practicing for years to come.

Clinical Autonomy: Direct patient outcomes based on your surgical expertise, not a hospital committee or department hierarchy.

Smarter Documentation: Our custom software is designed to slash admin time, so you’re not stuck charting at midnight when you could be home at a reasonable hour.

General Surgeon Responsibilities

  • Use the latest advancements in wound healing to change lives in communities across Philadelphia, PA:
  • Surgical and sharp debridement and other bedside procedures
  • Evaluation and treatment of chronic, non-healing and complex wounds

Advanced Dressings and Specialized Wound Protocols

  • Collaborative care in skilled nursing facilities and the post-acute setting, where you follow patients through healing
  • General Surgeon Salary & Compensation
  • Average Annual Earnings: $200,000–$250,000 (no earning cap as an independent contractor)
  • High Achievers: Top performers earn $300,000+ through performance bonuses
  • Pay Structure: Per-patient and per-procedure pay, plus quarterly bonus programs
  • General Surgeon Requirements
  • Medical Degree: MD or DO from an accredited institution
  • Medical License: Unrestricted/clear medical license in the state of practice (or eligibility to obtain one)
  • DEA License: Or eligibility to obtain one
  • Open Background: We welcome General Surgeons and surgeons of all backgrounds, as well as Family Medicine and Internal Medicine physicians. No previous wound care experience is required; we provide comprehensive wound care training
  • Great Place to Work® Certified!

Skilled Wound Care is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for the 4th year in a row. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Skilled Wound Care. This year, 95% of employees said it’s a great place to work – 39% higher than the average U.S. company.

Apply for This General Surgeon Job in Philadelphia, PA

You trained to be a surgeon, not to be on call forever. If you’re a General Surgeon in Philadelphia, PA looking for a no-call, Monday–Friday surgical career with no earning cap, apply today.

Skilled Wound Care will ask all candidates to perform pre-employment confidential DiSC testing and appropriate relevant skills testing prior to hiring.

Skilled Wound Care, part of Skilled Physicians Group, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

Key Responsibilities

The General Surgeon will perform surgical and sharp debridement and other bedside procedures to treat chronic and complex wounds. They will also provide collaborative care in skilled nursing facilities and follow patients through their healing process.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an MD or DO degree from an accredited institution and possess an unrestricted medical license in the state of practice. Eligibility for a DEA license is also required, and no previous wound care experience is necessary.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Chronic wound treatmentComplex wound managementClinical documentation

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates General Surgeon at Skilled Wound Care a 7.3 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 10% in Surgery — ranked against 1,103 active Surgery listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

Surgery — Physician Career Context

Skilled Wound Care holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 83/100, 195 active listings.

In Pennsylvania, the Surgery weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$421k (13 salary observations; 95 listings), vs ~$481k nationally (315 salary observations; 1,731 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 45 active Surgery listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 91% have no call, 76% require no weekends.

Surgery pay on WeekdayDoc is down 11.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$250k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $256k in an average-cost state. 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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Relocation assistance
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CME allowance
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

median 4.5this job 7.3
Among the best 10% of Surgery listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,103 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No call
  • No weekends
  • No nights

Living in Philadelphia

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$204k≈ 1.0× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,768/mo≈ 11% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
32 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
102.6
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Skilled Wound Care

Hospitals and Health Care
Los Angeles, California
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

No call
No nights
No weekends
Clinical Autonomy
Smarter Documentation
Quarterly bonus programs