Doctors In Financial Trouble: Many Selling Their Practices & Switching Careers

try 125k / year and already with 250k in loans -- lets do the math from there

125k = 80k max after taxes
250k = 12k+ in interest payment +12k in principle payment

wow a whole 56k a year left after that, and all for going to school until you are 30+

sounds like the short end of the stick if i may say so myself
 
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try 125k / year and already with 250k in loans -- lets do the math from there

125k = 80k max after taxes
250k = 12k+ in interest payment +12k in principle payment

wow a whole 56k a year left after that, and all for going to school until you are 30+

sounds like the short end of the stick if i may say so myself
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No shit! I've got a friend who's an pediatric orthopaedic surgeon... did a fellowship study in Switzerland for hip abnormalities (over and above his schooling and residency). He was 42 years old before he got his medical education loans paid off. He told me, "FINALLY, I can buy a house".

How many kool-aid drinkers would have that kind of ambition?
 
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so were the doctors sued for malpractice? I am curious about what condition you had where you needed more salt....I am trying to decrease my salt intake and it is a pain in the ass
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Adrenal fatigue....if you are run down and your adrenal glands are barely functioning, cutting down salt intake is akin to stopping water.

http://www.adrenalfatigue.org/about-dr-james-l-wilson.html

95% of DRs either do not know what this is, or ignore it and give patients anti depressants to cover it up.

My mother did not want to pursue the DR, which was very dissappointing.
 
Where I live, most of the old folks talk about how hard it is to find any doctors who takes Medicare (excepting a personable, former nurse anthesist). The state employees have super insurance bennies. The vet seems happy with the VA set up, although limited care.

Medical tourism has just started to impact the upper end of the medical market. It will grow.

The doctors greatest limitation is their total innocence of therapeutic, biochemical levels of nutrition, where, despite all the hopelessly biased articles in the journals, basic answers occur for a large percentage of what ails us. Therapeutic nutrition has been written out of their texts over the last 20-50 years and replaced by procedures and pharma puff pieces, like two different worlds.

Yet a close examination of the literature shows huge gaps between what was known years ago, albeit with small, less well controlled testing, and now with "authoritative" drivel that is based on tests with huge, multiple (deliberate?) flaws presented *completely* at variance with even simple, obvious prior knowledge.

It has gotten to the point where I say I trust the Soviets' version of history more than AMA versions on therapeutic nutrition. I am considered harsh about all stripes of socialism.
 
Again, don't believe the hype. Infant mortality rates can easily be manipulated by countries and agencies. Cuba is often listed ahead of the US, but do you honestly believe their reported rates aren't manipulated.

Also, the US has a higher black population than many of the Scandinavian countries for instance. Blacks have a significantly higher infant mortality rate than whites in almost every country.

Weight the scales so that it included 90% white population and the stats would be completely different.
 
Now here is my story. My dentists have been drilling my teeth for years with some deep cleaning and charging the insurance company big money.

My dentist again this year showed me the X-rays of my teeth and tried to scare me and do another deep cleaning for $1600, insurance would cover 80%. OK I said.

I was visiting India and saw a dentist there, and he told me that my teeth are far better than average and all I need is some cleaning. He cleaned them for a whopping $18. Now, I have decided to not see the dentists in US even though I have dental coverage, and not even get the free cleaning.
 
You're the dumbass who is assuming industry knowledge because his trailer park mom got lucky and snatched up a wealthy old far who happens to be a doctor. Let me guess, is he a fat disgusting slob, hence why your white trash mom even had a chance? I bet you wonder what your real daddy thinks about the situation, but his ass has been long gone ever since the broken condom episode involving your mom, 20 bucks and the back of the interstate highway parking lot.

lol, you forgot about the long nights of lovin with stepdaddy
 
Yeah, there are alot of blacks in Cuba so their stats must be a lie! Their universal coverage of healthcare and public health programs for its citizen has nothing to do with their supposed superior infant mortality rates.

The reason for higher infant mortality is related to socioeconomic status not race. Individuals of lower socioeconomic status have higher infant mortality related to lack of prenatal care and lifestyle and nutritional issues of the mother whether the mother is white, black, hispanic or asian. Individuals, regardless of race, of higher socioeconomic status have similar infant mortatily rates. Blacks make up approx 11% of the us population and hispanics are a higher % than that and the number of babies born to hispanic women is also higher. The hispanic population is expected to exceed the white population in the notso near future
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infant mortality isn't even defined the same between countries, meaningless comparison
 
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I think one can categorically state that the most successful 5% of traders are orders of magnitude richer than the top 5% of doctors.

When you're a medic you really cannot be in it for the money. When you're a trader money is the only reason to be doing it..
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those are ridiculous statistics, even if true which is doubtful, because most traders are unsuccessful.
 
"ridiculous statistics, even if true" - this has to be one of the most quotable statements I've ever read. Even on ET, which is saying something :)

Anyway 5% could well be wrong, it may be 1% or even 0.1%. But most people get my general point.

And I am talking about the entire trading industry, not just home based traders, who are an eccentric bunch.
 
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