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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Subject: Re: Physician's Incomes
- Message-ID: <=thr35c@dixie.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 23:29:49 GMT
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- rtoptan@lucpum.it.luc.edu (Richard Z Toptani) writes:
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- >In addition, PhD's do not have to pay the large malpractice premiums, or
-
- Probably 'cuz PhDs don't harm as many people as MDs.
-
- >incur the massive educational debt that many medical students accumulate.
- >When I graduate from medical school, my educational loans will be
- >$150,000+. Most of the loans are market-rate variable-interest loans,
- >which compound pretty quickly. My estimated loan payments will be
- >around $2,000 a month, and maybe even more if interest rates rise!
- >I would also point out that this debt is entirely from medical
- >school. I paid off all of my undergrad loans before I started!
-
- In the venerable words of someone, "Tough shit, son". Your personal
- financial situation is of no concern to your prospective patients and
- should certainly not be of concern to those who now set reimbursement
- rates.
-
- If you don't like the debt load or can't afford the bill, perhaps you
- could do the same thing the rest of us do - alter your lifestyle
- accordingly. You COULD work your way through school. Or you could
- take a conventional job for a few years between undergrad and med school.
- (that was my brother's approach). That you choose to hock your ass up
- to your gills is YOUR problem. *I* think you are a fool and would
- question your professional judgement based on your acquiring that kind
- of debt.
-
- John
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