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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If OP is hoping to marry rich by being with a doctor. Don't bother.

Was a fool to marry my doctor without checking out his finances. After marriage found out he had six figure debt. Wiped out my savings paying it down. His friend was asked by his accountant friend how he slept at night with all that debt. We squeaked by for many years living in an tiny apartment and I put him on a strict budget.

While my friend who married the hedge fund partner has two houses a 24/7 nanny and goes to galas. [/quote]

I met my DH when he was in med school. It was a long journey but he now earns $1m+ as a specialized surgeon. I was the breadwinner for over a decade. It took a while to pay off our student loans but we are now saving and investing. By the time we are 40, we hope to have a few million saved.[/quote]

I'm now 35 and there is no way we're going to have a few million saved by 40. We're still paying down the remainder student loan debt.I actually don't appreciate you bragging about your "specialized surgeon" because it perpetuates the fantasy doctors are "rich" when most of them aren't and has tons of debt, and goodness knows we get enough vitriol about it. I had a plumber come into our one bedroom apartment and you could see he could not fanthom why we were living there, and he tried to ask us diplomatically what the hell we were doing. So please stuff it, and do your DH a favor and not perpetuate the "rich doctor" stereotype.[/quote]

Did you guys not do well in med school? For me, it is hard to imagine a physician barely scraping by in a crappy one bedroom apt where even the plumber is judging you.

The reason certain subspecialties are competitive is because they are also well paid. That is probably why all those visa postings are listed above. An American educated physician is not going to want to move to Nebraska to earn sub100k after racking up 200k in med school debt.[/quote]

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