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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of you are completely missing the opportunity cost to go into these different specialties. My wife is a liver/kidney/pancreas transplant surgeon and did 4 years of med school, 7 years of general surgery residency (5 years + 2 research years), and a 2 year transplant specific fellowship. 13 years after graduation with 9 of those years being paid very little.

Trust me, she would have made far more in other fields with how intelligent/driven she is, but she actually values helping her patients over $$$. This is just one example, but how is this worse than some random overworked investment banker or lawyer?[/quote]

And other physicians in the world don't have opportunity costs, yet make multiple fold less than US doctors even after accounting for PPP differences?

Healthcare in the US is a sham. We pay out the ass for it so evryone from doctors to insurance execs can make millions of dollars in the field.  Meanwhile, itnis bankrupting our entite country and becoming less and less accessible for millions of our citizens.  The entire scheme in the US needs to be flattened.First, by getting rid of all of the bloat, then normalizing salaries so that they're in line with the rest of the world.[/quote]

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