In Defense of Primary Care Physicians
Ok, please someone tell me I wasn’t called out because I’m going to be “just a regular” doctor making “only $150,000” minimum? Please tell me when I made the misguided decision to read the latest post by Triforce’s lackey he had the audacity to not only let some real private stuff slip but I was called out on becoming a primary care physician.
Actually, it’s never been a better time to become a primary care physician. And physician still doesn’t belong in the same sentence, paragraph or even document as lawyer.
Becoming a doctor hasn’t changed much in the last couple generations. College, medical school, residency. Now a couple generations ago the real world began at 18. People were getting married, having children, buying cars and houses. Now parents send stupid kids to college, and stupider kids borrow money to go to crappy schools when they would have been better off joining the army or learning a trade. So that’s four extra years we get to be pretty normal…sure, we actually have to study but we make it work.
Then we have medical school. Yes it’s four years but look at it this way, when you add up the JDs, MAs, MBAs, kids who can’t find jobs, kids who take “time off” and the idiots who chase dreams like music or acting and we are still looking at over 50% of kids who haven’t entered the real world by 22. At the end of the day we don’t start too far behind anymore. Unless we specialize, which more and more of us are doing at an alarming rate, hence new perks for primary care physicians…such as *gasp* loan forgiveness!
Alright! Now let’s take on the lawyers. The average lawyer who makes it to Biglaw lasts about what? 3 years? The average doctor practices for what? 30? Let’s see, by my math that’s $450,000 to… $13.5 million. Oh and the average 4th year associate works 80 hours a week, the average primary care physician works a 40 hr week after residency. So to put it in terms Mike Triforce can understand, enjoy your leased 3 series that you never have time to drive asshole because you are never getting the 5 or 7.
