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Cosmetic surgery, for one.
... cosmetic surgeons are still medical doctors, so they have the same insane schooling/residency requirements as everyone else. Plus, they have a purpose in a hospital in helping to plan surgeries to reduce the appearance of scars. It's not just vanity, my dude.
Chiropractor, though, that's a "medical" field that has no actual resemblance to medicine or the massive debt burden therein. Plus, they're a joke to begin with. Much better punchline.
Dentistry is the one that is still legitimately in medicine that makes money. the difference is in the liability insurance.
I can't fucking believe how health insurance is not good enough to cover my mandatory bones AND my luxury bones. Fukkin racket....
Definitely on the higher end of medicine, but I'm still not sure if it's really going to be a higher pay off than someone with an MBA. You still have nearly 20 years of school, residency, and fellowship before you start making any money.
There are only around 7500 cosmetic surgeons practicing in the US, compare that to almost half a million investment bankers...... I'm pretty sure you're going to have an easier time pulling in a million a year in banking than in surgery.
We aren't talking about the average MBA, I specified an investment banker, most of which have an MBA. There are just a lot more people and positions for someone with an MBA.
I wasn't comparing it with your average MD, I was specifically comparing it with one of the highest paid specialists in the field....
No, just someone who is more skilled at reading comprehension and retention than you.
Sure, but how's your handwriting?
Absolute dogshit.
When i was in school it was during the time where they swore up and down that every paper I wore in the future was going to be done in cursive. Now that only people older than me can even read cursive I have a weird bastardized mix of cursive and print.
Right, that's all the proof I need: Certified physician.
I'm pretty sure I'm younger than you, but I was also taught cursive in school, with quite the same result, aside from the fact that I'm very much not a physician (beyond the usual internet wisecrack "I spent ten minutes reading questionable articles online and will now lecture you on a disease I didn't even know existed before my toilet break" expertise).
Not in US but much in South Korea. And it is goddamn cutthroat.
Also, the few ones paid under retainer by aging billionaires, earning more than their equivalents.
South Korea might have more surgeons per capita, but it's a small country. There are around 7500 cosmetic surgeons in the US and only around 2500 in South Korea. And again, you're probably going to have a higher chance of being wealthy doing finance or working for one of the chaebols. Fellowships for something like cosmetic surgery are extremely competitive.
doesnt that still require you to become an MD, and the cost and competitiveness to become one is still there.
Yeah, they do. Read up.