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Most people go into medicine because of the money and status

• araes 3y ago
  A caveat to this would be that "caring for the autistic and/or disabled" is generally not viewed as "high status" in human society. If you have a disabled child, a lot of the time, the other children don't wanna hang out. If you're a disabled young adult, nobody probably wants to date you (or at least a very limited subset). You're already below 7-8 on hot or not for most. If you're a disabled adult, a lot of time, people don't "really" wanna deal with your needs (work/home/businesses) If you're a disabled elderly, you're probably in a home. Plus, a lot of societies for (pretty much since humans existed) have shunned the disabled as untouchables / failures / curses / diseased / bad-genetics / unlucky And in human society, "high status" often correlates with "expensive" or "high wealth". Also "pretty" or "desirable".
• neilv 3y ago
  Easy big money right now is actually the techbro field. Becoming a doctor just for the money would be the hard-mode way to do it. (Grueling pre-med weed-outs, med school applications, med school, residency competition, residency, specializations, etc.) Doctors do have status/respect, deservedly. Techbro stereotype is that of overpaid dimwit, from how we assume that big paychecks confer intellectual status, and confidently open our mouths on topics that other people actually know.
  • pants2 3y ago
    The tech bro stereotype has only emerged in the past couple of decades, and even so is mostly isolated to the United States. Doctors are still the go-to "money and status" profession for most of the world.
• TriangleEdge 3y ago
  How do you quantify what a good doctor is, and how do you erect barriers to filter them in?