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Sidenote: The opening paragraph is why, especially having done my undergrad with mainly Pre-Med students, I will never understand why most would willingly go in
by Melting_Harps 7y ago
Sidenote: The opening paragraph is why, especially having done my undergrad with mainly Pre-Med students, I will never understand why most would willingly go into Medicine. It has to be a calling given all the misery and sorrow you're exposed to on a daily basis; because in my experience most Physicians are often very reluctant to encourage their children to go into that field.
I'm just thankful they exist at this point, given how this has all unfolded.
- threatofrain 7y agoIt's one of the best class mobility pathways.
- Melting_Harps 7y ago> It's one of the best class mobility pathways. Is it in the US? Spending 10+ years in school, all while drowning in 200k+ debt before you enter your practice is hardly what I'd call assured upward mobility. And then you still have to work those crazy 60+ hour weeks in the hopes that after your debt is paid off you can start to live as an established MD well into your middle age. Honestly, with all of that in mind being a dentist makes sense, being a physician does not. But then neither is being a founder at a startup, and we're all drawn to that for various reasons, too.
- ComputerGuru 7y agoDoctors don’t have a hard time paying off those loans. It’s the liberal arts students (for one) with loans ten times smaller but incomes a hundred times less that can’t.