The average doctor in the U.S. makes $350,000 a year. Why?

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• kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The barriers to entry are high: 4 years of undergraduate education, 4 years in med school, 3 to 7 years of residency. Those years are very expensive, with the average med school graduate student piling up $250k of student loans. And if you’ve ever watched a friend go through med school and residency you’ll know it’s life-consuming; they are immersed in work and miss out on years of socializing and culture. The payoff at the end had better be commensurate or nobody will be a doctor.

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  • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can become a doctor of anything useless to society. It’s expensive to become a doctor of medicine in the USA. The system is broken. Where I live, these practitioners make much less and their education was paid for by the state. Their salaries are much lower.

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    • Encode1307@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The state is you. You’re paying for their education either way, either through exorbitant salary or higher tax burden.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  TL;DR: We’re not training up new doctors in high enough quantities, and we have a supply / demand problem.

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  • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You might consider the amount of money owed after completing the medical degree. They get that salary to pay back loans.

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s also addressed in the article.

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• deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Laziness.

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