Reply #101: You are aware [View All]

[FloridaJudy]

That most docs today graduate with a mountain of debt? And some specialists don't make that much money. Locally, pediatricians make about $120,000 a year. As a nurse that sounds like a lot to me, but then I'm also not a quarter million bucks in the hole for student loans. And considering they go to college for four years, medical school for another four and then follow up with at least three years of residency to specialize, we're talking decades before they start making a comfortable living.

I'm a nurse, so I know just how arrogant and self-centered some MD's can be. I also know how hard most of them work. My mother always nagged me to go to medical school. I'd do everything in my power to persuade anyone I loved not to do so. Sure, I have a cousin who's a surgeon who lives in a MacMansion and drives a jag. I also notice that he doesn't have much of a life.