Physicians move from The USA to Canada for better life

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21. Their spouses' careers come into play, too, on these

decisions of where to work, along with career opportunities from working the rural vs city "beat".

One friend of the family went the Army route to get his MD. It's a good fit for him. Another carries a load of debt, and his spouse is an engineer at a large firm. They want to live together and not have their work split too far. But they'd never leave the US.

On edit: an accountant friend was telling me that his dr friends that are family, general, and pediatricians, really aren't "hauling it in". They have a decent salary and hope for a good bonus at year end, but that doesn't always materialize. The ones who have pretty good living standards have spouses pulling in good salaries. But this is anecdotal information.