<p>Guy, I don’t see what you’re trying to get me to say here. </p>
<p>I AM NOT SAYING MEDICINE IS NOT A GREAT, WELL-PAYING PROFESSION!</p>
<p>Someone said “if I was in it for the money, I’d go into medicine.” All I’m saying is that its not an automatic path to Maseratis and mansions like some seem to think. Anyone with intelligence can see there are financial and time drawbacks to medicine, as well as risks that must be undertaken for that bright, new 30-year-old heart surgeon straight outta 12 years of schooling with $250k in debt and about to take on more to open a practice without any guarantee of business success. I’m just saying a statement that implies all doctors are super wealthy is foolish. Do they do well? OF COURSE! I’M NOT SAYING THEY DON’T! I’m just saying over time while calculating in all the costs of living debt while not working in med school, tuition debt, opening a practice debt, etc., it kinda evens out over time with professions like engineering and accounting. </p>
<p>Its kinda like a “now or later” thing in a way too. Sure if you’re a surgeon, by the time your 45, your salary is most likely gonna be above mine as a controller or other accounting based management position. But you have probably just payed off your debt from med school and opening up your own practice with very little funds, assuming you are even out of debt yet. What if you wanna start a family and buy a house at 26, not 36? If I’m taking on mortgage-sized debt, I want it to be for, well, A MORTGAGE! lol. </p>
<p>For the last time: I AM NOT IMPLYING DOCTORS ARE POOR, MIDDLE CLASS, OR ANYTHING LIKE IT. I’m saying that for someone to assume that medicine is more or less an automatic path to a life of Doctor 90210 then I think you are misguided. </p>
<p>I’m still not seeing what we’re arguing here.</p>