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Originally Posted by jay santos
An extra couple years of school and a standard deviation higher IQ shouldn't justify a salary 6 X the national average.
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Jay Santos: A lot of med students are in school or training until they are ~34-37 years old. My path is a little longer since I'm doing a PhD plus an MD, but it's not unusual for training to take about this long even without a PhD. During the last 5 years I'll be making ~40,000 a year while working 80 hour weeks. Most med students end up with $100K-200K debt on top of that. If salary is a motivation for career choice, there are much quicker and less painful ways to make six figures. On top of that, many specialists have a very difficult lifestyle throughout their career.
Do you really think doctors don't deserve a 6 figure salary with this kind of lengthy training?
Think about it this way: for many specialties, the period from high school graduation to private practice is longer than the entire period of kindergarten to high school graduation. For me, I'll have been in school and training for 17 years since high school graduation (not counting my mission)...versus the 13 years from kindergarten to high school graduation.