Wherin whiny med school grads bitch because they're only making six figures.

[duaiwe]

From an arcticle on Daily Kos about the health care system:

At the University of Washington medical school, which has a special program to take in some Idaho students, 87 percent of graduates are in debt. The median debt was $105,202 in 2006, according to a study published by the university

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[jilu]

Well I will say this. For several years after medical school (it can go so high as even 8-10 depending on their specialty) you make crap for the amount of hours you put in. And your loans are deferred in some cases, but they still hang around accruing interest. Now add in if someone went to a private college for undergrad. I have a cousin at Emory who's going to have over the median just from undergrad. Heaven forbid if he wants to go to a good med school instead of just state. Also, there are a number of folks who graduate med school with families and houses

[phoenix_hawk]

It always feels awkward defending one's salary-I used to get irritated at what they paid my programmer friends (not a shot at you, Jon, I swear!) over in Microsoft, especially considering the relative lack of educational requirements (though of course there are plenty of others).

I'm slightly irritated about graduating with 7 years of schooling and going out into the 40K jobs, (stupid prosecutor's pay...which is still usually better than being a public defender, pay-scale-wise), but luckily as long as I work for the public, they'll help with the debt.

[duaiwe]

I'm not offended. Hell that's another thing that disgusts me.

[duaiwe]

"But teachers (unless they get an M.ED.) go through 4 years of school."Maybe it's different elsewhere, but at least in NYS, teachers (even in primary & secondary) are required to have, or work towards their masters degree. And at the college level many will have PHDs (and don't see commensurately higher pay). So in general, it's more than 4 years of school (and, frankly, that they let people teach ANYWHERE with 4 years at some random school is disturbing in itself. Medical students need 11-15 years of school to make sure they don't kill a guy, but Teachers only need 4 years of school, and can do FAR more damage. There's something wrong here. But I digress