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This is true for life in general, not specific to medicine.   [b]Those working harder to get into top tier schools[/b], be it law, medicine, athletics, etc will have an easier path to professional opportunities vs. those with lower schooling pedigree will have a rougher path..... [/quote]
[b]This is simply not true. *All* of my degrees (undergrad and multiple grad degrees) are HYPS, and I have no delusions that this is 100% due to my merit alone. I did work hard, but I also had excellent private pre-K-12 education (paid for by my interventional cardiologist father and neonatologist mother) that made it much easier to get into a highly-selective college...and the opportunities I had there made it easier to get into a highly-selective grad program.[/b] I agree that people sometimes make choices that limit their future opportunity, but it's arrogant and ignorant to pretend that everyone has the same opportunity to begin with.

As for the discussion about relative salaries within various sub-specialties, the real discussion should be around whether they are fair. Yes, my dad is a good doctor who worked hard to become an interventional cardiologist. This includes studying late nights to get the interventional certification, which was introduced after he was trained, while he had his own private practice to run and three small kids at home. But I know pediatricians and internists who work just as hard as he does and just as good doctors, who earn much less. Do we really only want the second tier med students treating our kids? Luckily, that's not the current situation...but mocking pediatricians as being less capable or as having made bad life choices is ridiculous. We should be more concerned about how to make sure pediatricians are paid adequately to make it an attractive specialty.[/quote]

That's quite the admission and self awareness. Many ivy grads will argue until they're blue in the face that they get 100% of everything by hard work and the starting line -- i.e. private school/high rated public K-12, SAT prep courses, MCAT prep courses, being able to fly last minute to any and every residency interview you got and get a good night's rest the day before interviews at the Hilton across the street from campus rather than crashing on someone's floor -- well those starting lines don't matter . . . .[/quote]

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