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Comment on how do I accept that a doctor earns more than double what I do?

Doctors go to school for seven years racking up debt, and then usually have to shoulder the burden of liability and operational costs. It’s expensive to become a medical doctor, and expensive to be a medical doctor.

These costs are part of what keeps both doctors and patients safe. Doctors end up with both the power and the risk.

Nurses by comparison have only basic training before on the job training kicks in; it’s relatively easy to become a nurse, and if you mess up, the worst that’s going to happen is that you get fired and have to go work somewhere else.

But even as a nurse, if you’re quick to pick things up, you can move up the ranks and find a specialty that has more power and pays better than a standard RN. Without the seven years of debt.

And life’s not just about pay; quality of life is generally more important, and that sucks for most doctors, who have relatively short life expectancies and limited time to spend their money.

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200ok@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This.

Additionally, there are lazy people in every company/industry. Many of whom earn more than the average person. Oftentimes, life just isn’t fair.

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- OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Oftentimes, life just isn’t fair.
  
  Remember to thank a capitalist for this
  
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  - Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Life was unfair long before capitalism, and will be unfair after it.
    
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  - lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nah, uncle Mao and papa Putin have shown us life’s a bitch even in communism.
    
    Also, some clever leeches are going to exist regardless.
    
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    OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Shit, Russia is communist? Why didn’t the Central Committee send me the memo?
    
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    GetOffMyLan@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Let’s be real they’re both fascist states. I don’t think Russia even claims to be Communist.
    
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SacralPlexus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Doctor here. 👋 I just wanted to give my experience. I had to do eight years of schooling/debt, THEN I had to do 6 years of post graduate training (internship, residency, fellowship).

Now the post graduate years are paid like a job but not at a physician salary rate so paying on student loans during that time was next to impossible for me because I was in a high cost of living area. So my interest continued to compound during that time. It sucked.

As for the OP I just want to say that part of the reason I expect a higher salary is because I gave up 14 years of my life - most of my youth - in training to get here. Those 14 years were immensely valuable and I often regretted going down this path because of all the things I gave up instead. The training was incredibly difficult and time consuming. I lost touch with all my friends, had to move repeatedly, etc. It was absolutely brutal and felt endless. That’s part of what those paychecks are paying for.

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