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Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
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Re: Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
#192I've always dreamed of leaving behind Silicon Valley and pursuing emergency medicine. I need to stay the course for a while to ensure my college approaching kids are taken care of but stories like this are inspiring reminders that age doesn't have to be a factor when I finally decide to make the move.
I tried this. I didn't get into medical school but it is doable. I enrolled in a premedical postbaccalaureate program, and over the course of two years of night classes finished all of the prerequisites required by most allopathic medical schools. I worked by butt off to finish with a 4.0 GPA and place in the 96th percentile on the MCAT (good enough to not be ruled out because of my MCAT score). I also volunteered at…
Thanks for sharing the story. I am curios if you applied both for MD and OD schools? Anecdotally, I heard opinion, that OD is more tolerant to people, who choose medical field as a second career or older applicants.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried this. I didn't get into medical school but it is doable. I enrolled in a premedical postbaccalaureate program, and over the course of two years of night classes finished all of the prerequisites required by most allopathic medical schools. I worked by butt off to finish with a 4.0 GPA and place in the 96th percentile on the MCAT (good enough to not be ruled out because of my MCAT score). I also volunteered at…
Thanks for sharing the story. I am curios if you applied both for MD and OD schools? Anecdotally, I heard opinion, that OD is more tolerant to people, who choose medical field as a second career or older applicants.
I applied only to MD schools. I do know that some of my classmates were accepted to DO schools.
Re: Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
#194I was hoping to spot a Roach.
Re: Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
My wife is a resident. The salaries look nice when they're windowed to a single year. Career earnings, it's good but not that great compared to tech - especially when you consider the hours and stress. * 4 years of med school - $0 income - $40k+ of tuition * 3+ years of residency, minimum (4+ for most fields, even more for surgery) - $60k/year ------ If my wife had gone straight into tech, we'd have been better off f…
> Career earnings, it's good but not that great compared to tech We are in a strange time when software engineer salaries can even be comparable to those of doctors. Rest assured that sooner or later tech workers will be middle-class schlubs like pretty much every other type of engineer.
The idea that doctors need to make huge amounts of money compared to almost everyone else is very American. Here in Poland, doctors up until very recently were paid not much more than the country's average wage. Now it's more diversified, especially with short-term contract positions paying much more than that - but regular jobs at a hospital still don't pay more than 3x the national average.
Re: Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
#196living the dream
Re: Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
only with specialists/subspecialists w/ procedures, or surgeons. And if not, prepare to spend a lot of overnights. Family med say $120k starting, Internal med $200k Each extra $25-50k is like another year of training at $50k.
What year are your numbers from?Per medscape 2019 study average compensation is 330k. Q1 around $250k iirc.
Granted this is word of mouth from several years ago amongst new grads looking for jobs in NYC and Boston, some in SF, who were looking to stay in academic centers. I would say that's the worst case scenario. (there's a huge line of aspiring NIH PI's who are willing to work for peanuts for UCSF, Mass General, etc. The NIH training grants who are supposed to compensate for "75% time" are $98k/year...so do the math for the full 100%...).
For the Medscape study, I would say it's good to see the numbers are better in the private practice world, nationwide. But - most MD's will be presumably internal medicine and you'd have to look at the breakdown. The low end jobs in primary care, public health, etc start at $200k, and most folks who aren't surgeons or ophalmologists or dermatologists are in the low-mid $200's. That's assuming you graduate from residency in your late 20's or early 30's w/ the $350-500k in debt or whatever it is these days, unless you took the National Health Services or DoD scholarships, whereupon you then owe them 4-8 years of your life...
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doctors in the UK are vastly underpaid compared to most other occupations with similar levels of intellectual rigor required
From what I’ve seen there’s a lot of occupations in the UK that are underpaid. Makes me wonder who is getting paid in the UK.
Bankers and hedge fundies! BBC employees do great. Tube/rail get paid well above doctor averages for at least the first half of their career.
Re: Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight
#199I've always dreamed of leaving behind Silicon Valley and pursuing emergency medicine. I need to stay the course for a while to ensure my college approaching kids are taken care of but stories like this are inspiring reminders that age doesn't have to be a factor when I finally decide to make the move.
I tried this. I didn't get into medical school but it is doable. I enrolled in a premedical postbaccalaureate program, and over the course of two years of night classes finished all of the prerequisites required by most allopathic medical schools. I worked by butt off to finish with a 4.0 GPA and place in the 96th percentile on the MCAT (good enough to not be ruled out because of my MCAT score). I also volunteered at…
Your stats are pretty impressive. I'm surprised you didn't get into an MD program especially considering that you did the postbac. I'm sure you would've gotten into DO school though.
I've thought about doing this myself. I'm curious, what made you want to switch (from software engineering I'm assuming?) to medicine?
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anaesthesiologist here. I did EM for 6 months and hated it. This is because it just doesn't suit my personality. To be good at EM you need to be: - Comfortable with being a kinda bad at everything and great at nothing - Comfortable with large amounts of uncertainty and risk and having to make decisions anyway - Being abused by drunk/mentally ill patients constantly - Being patronized by medical colleagues in other sp…
> Being patronised by medical colleagues in other specialties Of which your post here is a prime example!
:thumbsup: