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Haha I love this. If we think about it in terms of pure game play, medicine is a part of the game where the strategy is to take on a massive amount of debt, hi
by llaolleh 6y ago
Haha I love this.
If we think about it in terms of pure game play, medicine is a part of the game where the strategy is to take on a massive amount of debt, high risk and uncertainty for incredible returns.
- PragmaticPulp 6y ago> medicine is a part of the game where the strategy is to take on a massive amount of debt, high risk and uncertainty for incredible returns. Not really. It's exceedingly rare for someone to complete medical school and then not be able to find a relatively high-paying job if they want one. The risk would be something like later deciding not to pursue a career in medicine, but that's a personal decision rather than an external risk.
- robotresearcher 6y agoIllness and accident can end anyone's career any time.
- kingsuper20 6y agoThat's why you need to purchase a half dozen doctors.
- dasil003 6y agoI'm not sure I like the investment analogy for ones career since you have to actually put the work in to get the pay. Your time, effort and talent are at least as much of a contributor as the medical school tuition. Perhaps a name brand school gives you a significant bump in earning potential on the margins but "incredible returns" still feels reductive of what is essentially a very hard and traditional career path.
- bidirectional 6y agoI heard a (probably invented) story that one year the Harvard Business School commencement speech basically boiled down to "you can earn an upper-middle class income for the rest of your life without ever working as hard as you did to get in to this programme".