| Topic Name: |
life as a physician |
| Message Name: |
docters are cash cows! |
| Date Posted: |
04/19/2001 |
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There's only one kind of MD that makes real money. a Managing Director. Unless you invent a new breakthrough drug (in which case you'll be richer than hell) you'll never be raking it in as a doctor. Maybe plastic surgeons to rich people aside. You'll be making 200k as a doctor while you could have worked just as hard and earn 500k, 1mil, 2mill in something that's actually lucrative like investment banking or venture capital. Basically, if money's the chief aim, you gotta pick a career that actually gives you a decent shot at it. |
| Message: |
I couldn't disagree more! When you consider the money in medicine is completely risk free, a far more positive picture emerges. In any other profession, making 200k is considered excellent money. In medicine that type of money is taken for granted. Sure, venture capitalists can make lots of money but they can also lose lots of money. You cannot refer, therefore, to a venture capitalists earnings as a salary or an income as it is so unstable and volatile. Medicine is, without a doubt, the profession for big stable dollars! A docter is not at the mercy of the market place like other professionals.
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