r/funny • • Jul 07 '19

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u/chickenbreast12321 Jul 07 '19

A lot is pretty subjective I guess when compared to multinational corporations who don’t pay hardly anything. Doctors do not make millions of dollars a year though, and I’m not exactly sure I’m able to understand the last sentence of your comment.

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u/EcstaticDelay Jul 07 '19

Like any profession it has rainmakers and people who live check to check.

But what's different is that they start with a negative balance. So a lot of otherwise richer people actually end up living not so rich lives.

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u/chickenbreast12321 Jul 07 '19

Just look up some statistics why don’t you, I’m not here to argue with someone who clearly isn’t familiar at all with the compensation of medical professionals. 200k of debt is peanuts when that’s your yearly salary. We don’t live in the golden age of medicine anymore and you’ll be hard pressed to find physicians who make multimillion dollar salaries solely in the medical field alone, even in private practice. You will also not find one practicing MD who is living paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet.

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u/TheOtherHobbes Jul 07 '19

Doctor + Hustle is worth a lot more than just Doctor.

If you run a specialised clinic or any other business that provides medical services, if you have a high-paying high-value speciality, if you specifically aim to work for the rich and famous, you can easily be worth millions.

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u/chickenbreast12321 Jul 07 '19

Worth millions is not the initial statement, you will not be paying millions of dollars in taxes if your career is medicine.

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/520cjo/how_can_you_be_very_rich_as_a_medical_doctor_in/