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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s pretty clear that doctors hang out with other elite school grads who went into big law or finance/finreg. Makes sense since med school is CRAZY expensive, it’s usually only UMC students who pursue. I grew up LMC, borrowing $400k for med school would seem like a plot of Austin Powers — my parents house was worth $60k, they made $30k/year.

So you have UMC students going to med school and becoming doctors, and their prep school classmates are now in finance or BigLaw or downshift to FinReg or maybe some Tech.

They don’t rub elbows with the GMU law grad working at the VA for $180k or the Fed contractor programmer making $170k and laid off at 40 because they are too old or don’t have right cloud certs.

Becoming a doctor slotted you into a lifetime guaranteed UMC job, and you are comparing the higher pay but higher turnover of the top 5% of other fields and unaware of how most in that field fare. Sure maybe you could have been a lawyer or financier, but consider how awful doctors are at investments I suspect you would wash out. 
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My husband and I are doctors. I know a lot of doctors, and I don’t know anyone who fits this narrative. 
Neither my husband or I went to prep school.  My husband paid for undergrad through the GI bill. I had an athletic scholarship to a state school.  Our kids go to Catholic school and we have a lot of friends who are teachers, engineers, social workers, ranchers, etc.

It’s really only on this website that I feel like I work too hard for too little, and I’m the only moron who has to go to work in person and can’t just take PTO whenever I feel like it.  [/quote]

But you don’t deny you grew up UMC…

Sure there are some military educated doctors, but the majority are paying out of pocket and supported by family.  Even if they took out the debt, they know their family could help if push came to shove. [/quote]

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