Anonymous wrote:The disparity of pay among physicians is what is criminal. It's all part of a skewed reimbursement system that values procedures more than cognition and actually taking care of patients. And it incentives itself by just ensuring that more procedures are done, some unnecessarily because they pay so much. The technical skills and training to be a critical care doctor and a spine surgeon are not that different. And one doesn't work harder than the other. But one makes 5 times more. Or even 10 times more. It's ridiculous. And some of it is sour grapes, sure. But it's difficult when you see the same guy in the middle of the night and he makes orders of magnitude higher than you because of reimbursement schemes set up decades ago. When he's not working harder than you and didn't train any harder. Stupid.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

There is no way this story is real. I can't imagine that one could get the expertise to command this salary in your early to mid thirties (as just finishing a residency will take you to your early thirties), and there aren't many medical specialties that pay this much (maybe high end plastic surgery or a high volume CT surgeon) and again, even for the ones that do, you're not getting that salary fresh out of training, which would have to happen for you to have "a few million" saved by age 40. This is 100 percent fabrication.

I'm not PP, but ortho spine (7 years) or neurosurgery (6 years) could easily accomplish this.

Med school grad at 25/26, means spine surgeon at 31-33, and those guys BANK.

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There is no way this story is real. I can't imagine that one could get the expertise to command this salary in your early to mid thirties (as just finishing a residency will take you to your early thirties), and there aren't many medical specialties that pay this much (maybe high end plastic surgery or a high volume CT surgeon) and again, even for the ones that do, you're not getting that salary fresh out of training, which would have to happen for you to have "a few million" saved by age 40. This is 100 percent fabrication.

DH is an orthopedic spine surgeon. Most of his colleagues in various areas break $1 million. They are one of the highest paid sub specialties though.

NP here. I don't think the question is whether there are subspecialties that break $1M, it's when that happens in ones career. My Dad is an interventional cardiologist, also one of the highest paid subspecialties, he easily earns 7 figures/year. But even adjusting for inflation there's no way his salary had cleared that figure high enough by his early/mid-30s that he would have been able to save the equivalent of "a few million" by the time he was 40. And he is foreign born where the age of completing med school is younger, so he had a few years' leg up.

Interventional cardiologists used to bank, put stent pay has been slashed. Your dad probably makes 6-700k max from clinical revenue unless he's employing an army of associates.

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Anonymous wrote:Neurologist, MD
Prevailing Wage - $90,646/Year

Alegent Creighton Clinic
12809 West Dodge Road
Omaha, Nebraska 68154

Contact Dr. D Randall Pritza
(402) 398-5880

Hires H1Bs, cannot find US Residents at the prevailing wage for a Neurologist MD.

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Wage/Case.aspx?ID=69582&Y=2015

and

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Alegent-Creighton-Clinic/23035.htm

Well of course they cannot hire a US neurologist foe that wage! The debt load in a neurologist is enormous.

Just another example of abuse of the h1b visa program. Undercutting US workers. You should see what they do in the IT world. Disney got caught red handed and it's the tip of the iceberg.

I hate donald trumo, but shit like this example will get his crazy ass elected.

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There is no way this story is real. I can't imagine that one could get the expertise to command this salary in your early to mid thirties (as just finishing a residency will take you to your early thirties), and there aren't many medical specialties that pay this much (maybe high end plastic surgery or a high volume CT surgeon) and again, even for the ones that do, you're not getting that salary fresh out of training, which would have to happen for you to have "a few million" saved by age 40. This is 100 percent fabrication.

DH is an orthopedic spine surgeon. Most of his colleagues in various areas break $1 million. They are one of the highest paid sub specialties though.

NP here. I don't think the question is whether there are subspecialties that break $1M, it's when that happens in ones career. My Dad is an interventional cardiologist, also one of the highest paid subspecialties, he easily earns 7 figures/year. But even adjusting for inflation there's no way his salary had cleared that figure high enough by his early/mid-30s that he would have been able to save the equivalent of "a few million" by the time he was 40. And he is foreign born where the age of completing med school is younger, so he had a few years' leg up.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

There is no way this story is real. I can't imagine that one could get the expertise to command this salary in your early to mid thirties (as just finishing a residency will take you to your early thirties), and there aren't many medical specialties that pay this much (maybe high end plastic surgery or a high volume CT surgeon) and again, even for the ones that do, you're not getting that salary fresh out of training, which would have to happen for you to have "a few million" saved by age 40. This is 100 percent fabrication.

Anonymous wrote:Neurologist, MD
Prevailing Wage - $90,646/Year

Alegent Creighton Clinic
12809 West Dodge Road
Omaha, Nebraska 68154

Contact Dr. D Randall Pritza
(402) 398-5880

Hires H1Bs, cannot find US Residents at the prevailing wage for a Neurologist MD.

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Wage/Case.aspx?ID=69582&Y=2015

and

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Alegent-Creighton-Clinic/23035.htm

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There is no way this story is real. I can't imagine that one could get the expertise to command this salary in your early to mid thirties (as just finishing a residency will take you to your early thirties), and there aren't many medical specialties that pay this much (maybe high end plastic surgery or a high volume CT surgeon) and again, even for the ones that do, you're not getting that salary fresh out of training, which would have to happen for you to have "a few million" saved by age 40. This is 100 percent fabrication.

DH is an orthopedic spine surgeon. Most of his colleagues in various areas break $1 million. They are one of the highest paid sub specialties though.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

I love the DCUM bragging. If I had that type of life, no way I'd bother coming on some forum to tell people about it.

Anonymous wrote:Pulmonary - Critical Care Physician

Prevailing Wage - $42,994 to $97,365

Carilion Medical Center
1906 Belleview Avenue, SE
Roanoke, VA 24014-1838

Debra Lovelace
Senior HR Director
dllovelace@carilionclinic.org

http://www.visasquare.com/h1b-visa/case-detail/carilion-medical-center/i-200-14176-006383.html