Become a doctor?
Got into medical school with a scholarship. Mid twenties. Would you make the jump if you were me? π π TC: 400k #mle vs #doctor
Guts!
Plastic surgeon. Nurses are hot?
Itβs either that or neurosurg if I jump
Straight out of fellowship? What is your specialty btw?
If you want it then do it. I have friends who moved from tech to the medical field even later in life.
How
Bigger balls than me I guess, are they happy with their choice?
How'd you get in with scholarship as a mle?
Couple papers, 4.0 and decent MCAT
Papers on what?
Yes, if youβre competent.
Yes, I know few radiologists and neurosurgeons into AI, and also clinical informatics to integrate LLMs in clinical notes to cut down their notes writing time and discharge notes into non English. Future is bright for AI in medicine.
Probably partly why I got accepted π π
Donβt do it for the money if you do make the jump
No, let someone who cares about patient care take your seat.
You see I used to think that until I met the cohort of the people who interviewed at the same time as meβ¦
Yes, most people who go into medical school do it for ego and money reasons, that doesn't mean you should pursue the same and continue the downward spiral. There's a chance you shit the bed in school and end up matching to Family Med for $200k TC and are worse off than you are at now (sounds unlikely, but still non-zero). Moving to MD only makes sense if you can guarantee you'll lock in a hyper-competitive specialty and even then you have 4 years of 0-negative pay, 3 years of shit resident pay, and several years of ~1/2 of your *current TC* for fellowship. Your financial break even point is a long way out. Save your ego and let it go to someone who will give patients the care they deserve.
no brainer, you save lives versus fix bugs no one gives a fuck about
Yes