Only 54% of doctors would choose a career in medicine again, only 11% feel "rich"

[jp11]

81. Thanks for ignoring what I wrote and making excuses for the things you think I said.

I never said everyone goes to the most expensive schools, next time read slower if you can't see the difference, I also didn't say that schooling wasn't expensive.

I never said the training wasn't difficult.

I never said people had the luxury of picking and choosing. But if the only school(s) you can get into are really expensive maybe you try other options like joining any number of armed services to get your training paid for, national guard, army, navy, airforce. OR maybe you do something else, not everyone follows their 'dreams' or 'goals' because not all of us can, the cost, things in life 'get in the way' etc.

Never said loans at cheap schools weren't a large sum.

Never said being your own boss wasn't another animal all together I didn't even talk about it.

Never said malpractice insurance wasn't expensive but again I did make the ridiculous statement that taxes and paying off your huge loans would amount to 2/3 of your income. Are you telling me that huge figure 2/3 won't cover malpractice insurance, I highly doubt it.

Again private practice this is a business owner/operator isn't it, and you are complaining you need extra staff to own/operate your own business where you are the primary 'service' provider? I never said you didn't need extra people for a private practice cause I never even mentioned it.

I completely agree about Europe which is what my general post was about, there it isn't about greed, it isn't all about greed here but it is a larger and more 'real' factor when people making 2-3x+ what most people make bemoan not feeling rich. This is where *I* talked about people(most anyway) could and were happy with 50k.

The other thing *I* talked about was that *I* don't feel great sympathy for people who take on larger debt than they need to take, again no one forces anyone to be a doctor and go to school for so long, hard/difficult, limited choices, debt, etc. There are other ways than doing it 'on your own' as I just mentioned the armed forces as an option. I also mentioned in my post where I 'truly don't have a clue what I was writing about' that school should be free or offer 0% interest loans but you'd have had to actually read what I wrote beyond just picking the parts that made you feel angry to get that or see I agree with you about Europe.