You can thank the Baby Boomers for becoming old and needing more health care. Your profession is growing at a rate of eighteen percent—faster than the average job. There's a lot of demand for your expertise, but don't get too comfortable. 

There are many factors that may change this. We can't forget technology, that old nemesis, helping to treat patients faster and more efficiently and allowing for the delegation of formerly difficult tasks to physician assistants and nurse practitioners.

 

"We're so glad our deterioration is helping you flourish!" (Source)

Then there are health coverage policies. There's a bit of upheaval happening in the healthcare industry at the moment (to say the least), so it's difficult to forecast how everything will shake out twenty years from now. But, there's no reason to think the difficult-to-acquire skills of a urologist are going to be less useful in the future, so you can bet you'll still be banking yachtloads of cash for decades to come.

We just don't know how big the yachts will be.

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