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life as a physician |
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show me ! |
| Date Posted: |
04/30/2001 |
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OK, you're graduating from med school. I'm not impressed that you have any idea of what your life will be like after this.
$40K for residency? Great... since you'll be working an average of 80-100 hour weeks, that averages out to $8-10/hour wages. Terrific!
And how do you know exactly how much you'll be making when you come out of residency? Unless you already have a practice lined up (which I seriously doubt), you have NO IDEA what you'll be making three years from now. So that point is ridiculous. All you can use are the averages from today, which are starting salaries of $60-80K for primary care. And those salaries are very UNLIKELY to increase substantially, particularly when nurse practitioners can do a similar job for a lot less.
And I'm not sure where you get off calling the previous poster "disgusting." He or she is being realistic about medicine. You need to wake up and smell the coffee. Medicine in the past was lucrative and secure. It's still not a bad salary, but the security is significantly less than in the past, as is the take-home pay.
And yes, med school IS a lot of memorization. But if you think that's all that medical practice is, then you will have a VERY rude awakening shortly. |
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People can only go on what they see and what they see is a bunch of vain doctors driving BMWs. Show me an unemployed doctor or a senior doctor, working full time, and earning less than 100k and then we'll talk.
Statistics can be so misleading. For instance here, in Australia, they say that the average GP income is $80k but they ignore the fact that women occupy half of all the GPs and many of them work part time. Unfortunately most of these stats are published by the AMA who have a clear conflict of interest.
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