Thread: Medicine worth $300k of debt?

Quote: Originally Posted by jdwmont Got a good laugh out of this! So true... However, if you can think of a job in science with as much stability and income as medicine, let me know. Everyone talks about the "stability" of medicine. I laugh to myself when I hear this. I equate this to flying a 757 in a terrible thunderstorm with severe turbulence. Sure the plane is stable and will remain up in the air but the bumpy...

Actually, there's a post on the nontrad forum from a guy who went to med school thinking it will get him laid...

Quote: Originally Posted by michaelrack that doesn't make sense from an economic standpoint. sorry, dyslexia. demand will always exceed supply.

Quote: Originally Posted by yadayadadude Is medicine worth $300K? HELL NO. This is just a job. Some days, it's a crappy job. You say you can't "imagine" another career? Time to become more imaginative. Seriously. Got a good laugh out of this! So true... However, if you can think of a job in science with as much stability and income as medicine, let me know. With the American economy sinking swiftly, there are fewer...

Even more expensive than what Tiger Wood pay for his honeys. Quote: Originally Posted by lipomas lol, that's an expensive way to get laid.

Quote: Originally Posted by AttyHubby Wow! Thanks so much for opening my eyes to what terrible people ALL lawyers are! ... defend doctors, defend hospitals, Thank you so much for opening my eyes to what a limited and scummy scope of work my profession has. so lawyers are good because they defend doctors and hospitals from other lawyers??? That's like saying guns are good because some homeowners use guns to protect themselves from...

Quote: Originally Posted by XRanger let's say you have a wife and she also works (well..at least I'm planning to marry someone who has a job). Let's say even if she makes $50,000/year, that turns out to be around $3000/month. And since you already paid for everything (mortgage, insurance, food, utilities, kids clothing), she can save all of it. So you guys end up with extra $5000/month. that seems doable I mean for engineer who...

Quote: Originally Posted by LiveUninhibited And it's better to be in 300k of debt than be a blood-sucking lawyer who is not necessary to society as we have too many of them and they subsist by destroying physicians' lives or getting scumbags off the hook. I also hate our legal system. I would hate myself and every minute of my working life as a lawyer, even if I was good at it and made a lot of money. Wow! Thanks so much for opening...

Quote: Originally Posted by jdwmont Hopefully a state school will become an option. I am actually 27, which makes these questions a bit more pressing. I made a career change and did a post-bacc that ate up my savings. No wife or kids, nor any chance of any appreciable inherintance. I am not naive enough to tell myself, "oh well, I guess I'll just do plastic surgery." DrRobert, I like your magic number theory. 300 is...

Chino brings up a good point, and I'd like to point out that I think most people have a skewed view of how much other graduate degree's end up paying people. All these people saying they could have gotten an MBA or whatever and be earning $300K+ are essentially the the same as the lay people who assume all Doctor's make $500K+. Some stats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona..._United_States...