Anonymous
Post 02/10/2026 01:28     Subject: Physicians and high income
Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 13 and she wants to be a doctor. She is averaging 98% in 8th grade with 100% in math.

My daughter is ruthlessly competitive and kind of heartless to be honest. She already told me she is going to be very rich and that's why she is working so hard.

I don't know what kind of doctor she will be, but I pity her patients lol


If she wants to be really rich and is motivated/driven, I wouldn’t recommend medicine. Its got a high floor but a relatively low ceiling. The real money is in tech/high finance.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 19:50     Subject: Physicians and high income
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My wife and I are both physicians and making $500K + some bonus of $75K/year. We also have $700K of student loans between us so high salaries are justified.


Curious what speciality ?


Both internal medicine.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 19:05     Subject: Physicians and high income
Anonymous wrote:You can’t compare teachers and doctors. The type of kid who becomes a doctor has to be a significantly stronger student. Anyone can become a teacher from any tier 3 college.

For the higher paid specialties, one needs high scores and grades. Not anyone can just become a neurosurgeon.

You don’t sound very smart, OP.


Here’s where I stop reading this thread.

Sure, anyone can become a teacher. We’re desperate and the bar for entry is low. Here’s the kicker, though: it takes a ton of skill and strength to remain one. That’s why we have a tremendous teacher shortage, because people enter the profession thinking it’s an easy paycheck and then they are slammed with the reality that teaching is HARD.

So PP, to borrow your own words… you don’t sound very smart.

OP, I wouldn’t be a doctor OR a teacher for low pay. That’s because I know both jobs are demanding and important. The difference is we have community respect for one profession but not the other.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 18:47     Subject: Physicians and high income
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What if tuition is free with few years of public service.


I grew up in Senegal. When I graduated HS the government gave me a scholarship to study medicine at the public university in the capital city. I'm Senegal you start med school after HS. I don't know how sustainable that model is because I didn't realize how expensive med school was until I moved to the US. I didn't even want to be a doctor, I just put it as an option. I came here instead to study engineering.

I think we have good but under equipped doctors in Senegal. But I think American physicians are better though and def more productive.

My daughter wants to study medicine but I don't think we can afford it. If she knew French perhaps she could study in Senegal. But then unless she is one of a kind I don't think a Senegalese trained doctor can just hop on a plane and get a job here it's not that simple lol.

To answer OP's question, given the high cost of studying medicine in the US I don't blame physicians for chasing $$$.


Senegl? They have real doc there?


Yes one of them impregnated your mother