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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this is going to generate a lot of eye rolls. But I had no idea when choosing a career path how dramatic the differences in income would become by middle age or how much I handicapped myself early on from more lucrative career choices. I am not starving. I make $230K/year as a primary care doctor. But my classmates who made different choices are now earning triple my income; friends who are law partners making $1-4M/year; and they consider that chump change next to the tech and finance people who pull as much or more. I just had no idea how disparate things would become.[/quote]

Go look at your pediatrics friends.  I promise you, even the sub specialists are making a whole lot less than you are and they had to go to fellowship to get their jobs.  [/quote]

OP. I also did a 2-year fellowship, and a graduate degree in public health.[/quote]

So you're doing primary care despite doing a fellowship and have a degree in public health?  There's nothing wrong with primary care, it is a very important job to your average patient.  You serve a lot of people in your daily life.  But I do wonder what happened if you completed a fellowship but still do primary care.  [/quote]

FYI not all fellowships lead to lucrative specialties. Public health, Heath policy, rheumatology, infectious disease, geriatrics, endocrinology, palliative care for example don’t pay well.[/quote]

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