Medical education in Europe is free. In the US, it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, on top of 4+(1-9) additional years of training with grueling hours du

Medical education in Europe is free. In the US, it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, on top of 4+(1-9) additional years of training with grueling hours during the prime of your life. 80% of doctors are burned out. The emotional toll of watching innocent people die, telling their families, and doing your best with variable levels of success is indescribable. Doctors in the US are not overpaid - the pay is the only thing keeping them in the profession. The real money is going to hospital administration (non-profit hospitals with executives paid more than 6 million per year), malpractice insurance which can go up to 30% of a doctor's salary (a single malpractice case can cost $1M to defend, whether you are guilty or not), and most importantly, tests that have to be done, not out of necessity, but because there is a 0,1 chance of a rare condition that can get caught by it, and the doctor can be sued if they miss it.