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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You'll want to do one of the post bacc programs that does all of the classes in one year and also helps you place into med school - goucher has one in Baltimore.  I have thought about it too - I'm 39 - went into business instead and regret it - I have thought being a speech language pathologist might scratch the itch with less schooling[/quote]

This program is $38K (tuition only).  Plus the loss of income and living expenses and retirement savings.  Then tuition at any area private medical school in the US is about $75K-85K/year x 4 years (again plus living expenses and loss of income and loss of retirement savings). 
State schools are cheaper but they are often more difficult to get in to as a result.

My husband is a doctor (15 years out of residency) and makes around $300K at age 44.  Contrary to popular belief which states that physicians makes a ton of money, this is typical (in fact high) salary for all but the highest paying fields of medicine.  I would not want to be starting to pay off a $350K+ school debt in my mid to late
40's at a starting salary of $200K (or much less in some fields).  It really doesn't make sense to pay that much in schooling (plus the loss of income for 3 to 10 years of residency) if your career is only going to be 20 years long at the other end.

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