going to the drs

[Yaps]

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[Ross]

A doctor in debt? Maybe he should have been a Dentist or Oral Surgeon!

 

[PairoDocs]

Ross,
By the time I finish paying for medical school, I will have paid over $300,000 for that piece of paper that has my name with an M.D. after it. I graduated from medical school 19 years ago and I am still paying, despite working for public health and receiving loan repayment monies for 4 years. Chris' PhD also cost a chunk of change, but he was able to defray some tuition as a teaching assistant, which is just not possible in medical school. Like so many of my friends with PhD's, Chris is out of work. Such a waste of talent!

Sometimes I think it would have been better to go into nursing. Some of my friends are pulling in up to $79/hr when you figure in bonuses and holiday and overtime pay. Of course, these are the nurse specialists, the ones with extra training in the ER or ICU. But still...

I drive a 2000 Chevy Cavalier with 130,000+ miles on it, and it is our newest vehicle. Our furniture is early auction specials, and our house is 88 years old.
Still, we have a good life, and I don't mean to complain. It's just the idea that I can't get that albatross of medical school debt off of my shoulders...

Still nice in Idaho,
-Laura

 

[Eva]

Avery good shot.

If I became a doctor, I would end up like him as I won't have the heart to charge the poor and may give them my own money to pay for their prescriptions. Maybe this is why my mom when I went to the AUB for entrance exams to medical field, she prayed hard that I fail---She was worried that my heart is very tender and may suffer with each patinet. but now i think, she was wise and realized that I would pay the patients instead of them payming me!!!

 

[hensylee]

My ex is a doctor. He has made mucho $. He is very wealthy.

I am not.............

 

[Yaps]

lol

lol

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[BDMc]

Dear Yaps, Is it any wonder why we all love you?! LOL Thank you!

 

[Ross]

Ross,
By the time I finish paying for medical school, I will have paid over $300,000 for that piece of paper that has my name with an M.D. after it. I graduated from medical school 19 years ago and I am still paying, despite working for public health and receiving loan repayment monies for 4 years. Chris' PhD also cost a chunk of change, but he was able to defray some tuition as a teaching assistant, which is just not possible in medical school. Like so many of my friends with PhD's, Chris is out of work. Such a waste of talent!

Sometimes I think it would have been better to go into nursing. Some of my friends are pulling in up to $79/hr when you figure in bonuses and holiday and overtime pay. Of course, these are the nurse specialists, the ones with extra training in the ER or ICU. But still...

I drive a 2000 Chevy Cavalier with 130,000+ miles on it, and it is our newest vehicle. Our furniture is early auction specials, and our house is 88 years old.
Still, we have a good life, and I don't mean to complain. It's just the idea that I can't get that albatross of medical school debt off of my shoulders...

Still nice in Idaho,
-Laura

Laura don't take it personally. I know many physicians that are in the same boat as you, but I also know many that are driving BMW's and living in mansions also. Of course these are not America Doctors, they are Indians, Pakistani's, so forth and etcetera.

 

[Mary]

Ouch!!!!

 

[Cooker]

Love the cartoons Yaps!!... Thanks for the grins

 

[Yaps]

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