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All joking aside, being a doctor sounds like a shitty deal
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Date: July 13th, 2026 8:16 AM Author: Buy your next house instantly with Zellow! You have to superstudy in undergrad first of all. I knew plenty of premeditated who had normal college experiences, but there were also some who didn't.
Then four years of med school, often brutally difficult, wracking up huge loan balances.
Then more years making a teacher's salary, while loan balances accrued. Maybe a couple, maybe 5+ if you want to be a brain surgeon or similar.
Then you've "maed it" and you make.... 300k? 400k? Sometimes less. When you're smart enough to make much more in business. While paying off huge loan balances, and after years of foregone earnings. Doctors love to complain, but any kid considering this path needs to understand that it's not all that great. |
Date: July 13th, 2026 9:08 AM Author: gunnerretttired (gunneratttt) It seems pretty cush once you're midway through your career. Yeah the front half is brutal, but most of the 40+ docs I know are downright lazy and have great lives.
Seems like a very cr life path where you really front load the suffering early when you have the most energy and vitality so you can coast the second half. A real ant and grasshopper situation. |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 9:15 AM Author: Richard Ames It depends on the specialty and the ambition of the doctor. I think a lot of medicine has become awful because of technology and subsequent PE roll-up activity. Just being a run-of-the-mill GP is definitely terrible now unless you are a concierge doc or you have some level of mind for building a real practice.
If you are in a specialty field, I think it's probably a good career. Especially if you aren't just diagnosing, but actually perform specialized procedures. Otherwise, it's gotta feel a bit like being a horse-and-buggy driver in 1910.
It's to the point that I'd much rather see a Nurse or PA if I go to a clinic type environment instead of a doctor. How much resentment must a doctor in that sort of environment have? |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 9:18 AM Author: Nazca Redlines Disagree, by and large.
CR re undergrad: That takes a lot of studying and striving for most people. Unlike law school (ljl lawyers), where pretty much any college grad can get into some US law school, getting into med school in the US is competitive.
Beyond that, the career seems fine and on an upward trajectory as you progress. You don't need to grind so much in med school because there are plenty of good jobs to go around. You just need to do OK, assuming you don't feel compelled to strive for an elite fellowship at some prestigious institution.
Post-med school and a circumscribed residency--that people don't get Latham'ed out of if they show up and do an OK job--the career is very cushy. ER doctors working 2-3 12 hour shifts (their choice!) a week. GPs, dermatologists, etc. doing 4 days a week, 9-4 (and taking most Wednesday afternoons off)...
If my kids were in college now, weighing admission at a good law school or a good med school, I'd suggest they go to med school. |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 9:18 AM Author: Smoker They often have to live in the middle of nowhere. And one of the few jobs left that you can’t just do remotely. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882240&forum_id=2...id#49996085) |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 9:21 AM Author: Nazca Redlines (not a robo doctor wheeling into the room to tell your loved one the tumor is inoperable and billing insurance $375 for the consultation (https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/kpi/kpiqjg-b78481034z120090310104837000giqgsp1s1lg.jpg?w=620)) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882240&forum_id=2...id#49996098) |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 9:22 AM Author: computer online (🧐) There are tons of remote scam doctors now actually. Our very own bOor is one of them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882240&forum_id=2...id#49996103) |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 9:33 AM Author: LathamTouchedMe The misery is front-loaded. But it's a lot easier than other careers when you're older. Very stable, very routine, and straightforward path. For law, finance, IT it's a lot harder to get high-paying jobs and keep them for the length of your career. Also depends on the specialty you go into. Plenty of anesthesiologists and surgical specialties start at more than 300-400k. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882240&forum_id=2...id#49996111) |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 9:41 AM Author: Fucking Fuckface Is it actually hard to get in? I mean for people who can get into a T14 with balanced GPA/LSAT results
I feel like I could have coasted into med school as easily as I coasted into a T14
I feel like the only things that are actually difficult are the things that require innate, specialized talent and that have a way to rigorously measure. Things like mathematics and music, for example
Most other generalized skill set shit is just trash and trivial to get into and to even do. This includes experimental science...coming up with the experiment can take incredible intellect. Running the experiment is something that drones can do |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 9:57 AM Author: computer online (🧐) the hard part about being a doctor is if you fuck up you kill people
the specialties that don't have to worry about this are gravy though |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 9:44 AM Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III ( ) I dunno, as a doctor it feels like it’s a race between PE and socialized medicine to see who can ruin your profession first. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882240&forum_id=2...id#49996124) |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 9:45 AM Author: Richard Ames Two sides of the same coin. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882240&forum_id=2...id#49996125) |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 9:53 AM Author: t.rick o'treat panama cousin is a do and didn't even optimize his fellowship (turned down yale) and was offered 500k/yr starting in radiology, so the money is there once you make it through all the bs.
however, all the dr's i know essentially lead 'financed' lifestyles because they're able to get big loans on the basis of guaranteed income stream. none are actually 'wealthy' in the sense that they have a big pile of money, it's more that they're a guaranteed 500-1mil/yr if they're some kind of specialist. the more entrepreneurial ones in high dollar specialities like dermatology and orthopedics probably pull down millions, but that's no different than the absolute upper tier of any profession doing the same |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 10:04 AM Author: norwood classic we should all thank God every day that the soulless, shit-eating, striver-class bourgeoisie exists and are willing to waste their one and only life on this earth doing this kind of retard shit.
the world needs 'surgeons,' and I sure as hell am not putting in this amount of effort to become one.
so good on them. |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 10:06 AM Author: AZNgirl glueing Lindsey Graham's body parts The worst thing is I think all docs at some point have to work in something disgusting like geriatrics dealing with old ppl shitting
How cld u ever want to be arnd mspt Americans bodies they are obese disgusting creatures. I can't even imagine a family doc inspecting dudes balls all day I had a Jew doc look at my balls wtf u want to become a doc Sonu have turd balls on ur furking face it's absurd |