Scorching Review of 4 HR Body - Raises Questions in my Mind about What Real Health Is
04-29-2012, 08:13 AMQuote: (04-28-2012 08:04 PM)Moma Wrote:
Quote: (04-27-2012 08:25 AM)Walnuts Wrote:
I hold a dim view of doctors. They're supposed to be smart, but who would seriously say that becoming a doctor is a smart decision?
You have to go to college for like a hundred years, then you work shitty hours in a fucking hospital all day and night surrounded by people shitting on themselves. The pay isn't even that great when you take all that into account.
Thanks but no thanks, I'd rather not make a habit of having to tell people their grandma's not gona make it three times a week.
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Are you talking about in the UK? Cos it's a shyt profession in the UK. However, in US, you can make coin from that. I heard that in Florida (not sure if it's still true) but you can practice plastic surgery by just having a medical degree and it doesn't matter what position in the class you graduated.
Plastic surgeons make obscene P's. At certain levels, you can delegate the grunt work to noobs and just show up for PR purposes.
That's not at all how it works in the USA. Someone who is just out of medical school would be completely unable to perform surgery.
In the US, first you need to get a 4 yr undergraduate degree, usually in a science. Then you go to a 4 yr medical school. You are now likely around 200,000 or more in debt unless you have wealthy parents, are exceptionally brilliant and got a rare merit scholarship, or went to a state school and took out no unnecessary loans.
Throughout this extremely competitive process, you are constantly tested and evaluated, and your results determine which residency placement you are able to get.
The most desirable are the ROADS specialties (Radiology, Opthamology, Anethesiology, Dermatology, and Surgical Subspecialties), as these combine the highest level of income with the most manageable hours once you are done with initial training.
Residencies typically last anywhere from 3 to 10 years AFTER medical school, and during all of this time a resident (doctor in training) works 80 hours a week or more and makes less than 50,000 a year. Surgical residencies are the longest and are famous for being grueling.
Doctors in the specialties I mentioned before typically make 300-500,000 a year or much more if they have some business sense and build a good private practice.
Even so, medicine is only worth it if you really have a hard on for science, as you will spend thousands of hours of your life studying esoteric and rather dull subjects.