medicine - benefits of the career?

No longer are you 'mr' or 'miss' but rather 'Dr'!

Reply 2

Unregistered

What are the benefits of a career in medicine?
Good pay?
Job security?

Also, if hypotheictcally, you cannot get a job in the medical field, can you go into something like retail or banking or other fields with a medicine degree?//

cheres

There's certainly job security, doctors are always needed

The pay is very good, not in the corporate solicitors league, a consultant's starting salary is about £55,000 and can rise and a GP's salary is c.£53,000.

I should imagine private hospitals pay more.

Reply 3

Lucy

Job satisfaction!

As for going into non-related jobs with a medical degree, this does happen and is perfectly acceptable. I know someone who after his medical degree, went on to do a law conversion course.

Reply 4

Take my advice...

- go to medical school
- specialise in psychiatry
- after graduating and becoming a doctor, move to the USA.
- set up a private practice in a large city (new york, Boston, etc.)
- charge between $100 - 350 per hour of counselling
- work 4 days a week, 6 hours a day, most days of the year.
- make a fortune listening to the problems of whiny (yet vastly rich) americans
- retire at 45
- buy a yacht.

$350 an hour is a common price for counselling with a 'shrink' in America! Rich businessmen, heiresess, computer moguls, etc. all see psychiatrists and fork out huge sums of money regularly. The only downside can be summed up in two words "trailer trash" - stay in the north, however, and you should be alright.

This is my personal plan to make a fortune, feel free to follow in my footsteps.

Reply 5

Vahe10

Yes i take all the above into consideration. However, are we not excluding points such as:

- anti-social hours
- Dealing with very sick people
- unpleasantness

Reply 6

Vahe10

Yes i take all the above into consideration. However, are we not excluding points such as:

- anti-social hours
- Dealing with very sick people
- unpleasantness

You don't have to treat everyone who wanders into your office - only the rich ones.

Anti-social hours? Not unless you want a lot of money - 30 hours a week is enough to make a $100,000 salary. You need to be reputable though.

Reply 7

Lucy

Mr White

You don't have to treat everyone who wanders into your office - only the rich ones.

Anti-social hours? Not unless you want a lot of money - 30 hours a week is enough to make a $100,000 salary. You need to be reputable though.

I seem to get this vibe that as soon as you get your degree you'll be home free and the dosh is going to come rolling in. I'm afraid this is a bit unrealistic as you'll find that you are going to have plenty of anti-social hours in medical school, and when you leave medical school you're likely to be approx. £30 000 in debt!

Plus medical school can be cruel (my cousin got asked to resuscitate this old woman but they didn't tell him before that she was already dead :eek:

!). If you really want loads of money and quickly I would recommend achieving a good degree in some business related subject and then go into business.

Reply 8

Lucy

If you really want loads of money and quickly I would recommend achieving a good degree in some business related subject and then go into business.

'Go into business' - just like that? There was a degree of risk involved last time I checked, but I suppose that's only if you start a new business, not if you join as an executive in some big multi-national.

With regards to my master plan:
Student loans are a down-side, yes, but I did take them into consideration. I don't recall actually saying that money would fall into your hands as soon as you leave medical school, but then again I didn't specifically say that it wouldn't so your point is fair enough.

Reply 9

bumblebee86

Mr White

Take my advice...

- go to medical school
- specialise in psychiatry
- after graduating and becoming a doctor, move to the USA.
- set up a private practice in a large city (new york, Boston, etc.)
- charge between $100 - 350 per hour of counselling
- work 4 days a week, 6 hours a day, most days of the year.
- make a fortune listening to the problems of whiny (yet vastly rich) americans
- retire at 45
- buy a yacht.

$350 an hour is a common price for counselling with a 'shrink' in America! Rich businessmen, heiresess, computer moguls, etc. all see psychiatrists and fork out huge sums of money regularly. The only downside can be summed up in two words "trailer trash" - stay in the north, however, and you should be alright.

This is my personal plan to make a fortune, feel free to follow in my footsteps.

What a prick!

Being a doctor is not about becoming wealthy! Money should be the last thing you think about. If you want to be wealthy be a plumber or stockbroker. If anybody who wants to do medicine for a wealthy salary (rather than the very comfortable one you do get), then medicine is certainly not for you.

Take Care

John

Reply 10

idiopathic

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What are the benefits of a career in medicine?
Good pay?
Job security?

Also, if hypotheictcally, you cannot get a job in the medical field, can you go into something like retail or banking or other fields with a medicine degree?//

cheres

you are guaranteed a job after finishing degree as you will be allocated to hopistal ? i think..

Reply 11

OP

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What are the benefits of a career in medicine?
Good pay?
Job security?

Also, if hypotheictcally, you cannot get a job in the medical field, can you go into something like retail or banking or other fields with a medicine degree?//

cheres

FOR THE FOOKING MONEY!! WHAT ELSE??!! IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY (PERSONALLY I THINK DOCTORS GET PAID WAY TOO MUCH ANYWAY)

THAT ASIDE, I HATE IT WHEN YOU GO FOR A JOB INTERVIEW AND THEY ASK YOU "WHY DO YOU WANT TO WORK HERE", I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE SAYING "FOR THE FUKING MONEY WHAT ELSE FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!" (but i don't though)

Reply 12

OP

Mr White

You don't have to treat everyone who wanders into your office - only the rich ones.

Anti-social hours? Not unless you want a lot of money - 30 hours a week is enough to make a $100,000 salary. You need to be reputable though.

I think he was talking about hospital doctors.

Reply 13

Unregistered

FOR THE FOOKING MONEY!! WHAT ELSE??!! IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY (PERSONALLY I THINK DOCTORS GET PAID WAY TOO MUCH ANYWAY)

THAT ASIDE, I HATE IT WHEN YOU GO FOR A JOB INTERVIEW AND THEY ASK YOU "WHY DO YOU WANT TO WORK HERE", I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE SAYING "FOR THE FUKING MONEY WHAT ELSE FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!" (but i don't though)

Doctors don't get paid enough!

The top consultants get paid c.£75,000 pa

The top lawyrs in the country earn between £900,000 and £1,000,000 pa

Reply 14

loftx

Lord Huntroyde

Doctors don't get paid enough!

The top consultants get paid c.£75,000 pa

The top lawyrs in the country earn between £900,000 and £1,000,000 pa

What do you guys count as enough? :confused:

Reply 15

loftx

What do you guys count as enough? :confused:

Doctors are very important, top consultants should earn around £150,000pa, but they won't earn that unless they go private.

Reply 16

OP

some of the doctors in the health proffession are arrogant, ignorant, and inconsiderate. You should be going into the health profession because u genuinely want to help people, however cheesy that sounds, that is what it is-people, not money.

Some doctors treat other hospital staff, such as nurses, radiographer, phlebs etc very badly, just because they feel that they are better than everyone else simply because they have had the privelege to go to medical school. If your main goal is money, that will likely lead traits similar to those above. Although it may be pragmatic to earn as much money as you can, is it moral (?). If you want to be pragmatic by going into medicine to earn as much money as you can, why not be a lawyer, acountant, simply work in the City- lots of money, social hours.

May I also add that doctors have the highest suicide rate. And psychiatrists have the highest drug adictions and depression rates.

If you want easy money, is medicine realy the right choice?

Reply 17

Unregistered

some of the doctors in the health proffession are arrogant, ignorant, and inconsiderate. You should be going into the health profession because u genuinely want to help people, however cheesy that sounds, that is what it is-people, not money.

Some doctors treat other hospital staff, such as nurses, radiographer, phlebs etc very badly, just because they feel that they are better than everyone else simply because they have had the privelege to go to medical school. If your main goal is money, that will likely lead traits similar to those above. Although it may be pragmatic to earn as much money as you can, is it moral (?). If you want to be pragmatic by going into medicine to earn as much money as you can, why not be a lawyer, acountant, simply work in the City- lots of money, social hours.

May I also add that doctors have the highest suicide rate. And psychiatrists have the highest drug adictions and depression rates.

If you want easy money, is medicine realy the right choice?

But you don't want lots of intelligent people not becoming doctors just becuase they want to earn good money. In our society, if you are clever enough, you can earn lots of money.

But doctors earn much less than other jobs which require intelligence, so unless they get paid something which resembls a decent wage, we may not have the best people looking after our health.

Reply 18

OP

Im saying that this goal of earning lots money should not be the main priority of a Dr! Sure, if this Dr is having extreme money problems, then yes temporary goal of money is acceptable. But if they are actually driven my money, then I don't think this is right!!

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