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[quote=flu][quote=scaredyclassic]For prestige or more money?

Within medicine to me it seems like hustlers make money but a hospital wherever they do their residency us gonna make 1 to 150 an hour.

So is it gonna be more lucrative to be a doc with 250k in the bank setting up a few pain mgt. 9th ices with a less prestigious residency or an internist from Harvard working as a hospital is a “good” hospital.

The Harvard gal probably has more shine but the pain guy is probably gonna be rich.[/quote]

I wouldn’t go see a “pain specialist” unless that specialist was top of his field. And that usually doesn’t happen when the doctor has sheety credentials.

In as much as I needed serious legal help, I wouldn’t go to someone with a JD from University of Phoenix.[/quote]

for medicine who cares if you’re seeking a particular doc unless you’re paying cash. Otherwise you’re just another body another insurance policy and your opinion isn’t making anyone wealthier

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I think it’s pretty clear that if you borrow 700000 to get thru college and med school and are idealistic enough to do primary care non procedure stuff you are a financial loon.

For Ben bernanke, a gov. Employee basically he obviously felt he didn’t have the cash to pay for a fancy med school. Or wanted his kid to gut it out?

Or maybe a political move?

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Wherever your degree is from you can’t bill insurance one dime more for the name on your diploma. I think. Unless there’s a billing code I’m unaware of.

Maybe this is the new bubble where we can again have something to argue about. Houses, feh. Are degrees overpriced and how will the bubble burst if it does…or if there even is a bubble.

Bring on the debt! Education always pays off!

Looks like bernanke was smart enough to pick psychiatry where he’s doing a residency in nyc. That has a chance of a good cash practice. Maybe. Or throwing lots of pills at people as fast as possible in some hospital somewhere.

That might be worth a half million but he definitely cannot service that debt through his internship and residency so it’ll balloon upwards. Unless his dad helps him out.

I’m so old. All I worry about is money.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2014/01/30/med-student-gives-sober-assessment-of-future-with-500k-in-student-debt/

Huh. Ben Bernanke has a kid with about a half million in med school debt. Hope he picks the right specialty.

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I could be wrong about this. There could be special opportunities for the to dudes I don’t know about…

I would definitely not pay full freight at a law school for less than top few…Harvard Yale Stanford and a few others…and even that would be not a smart investment for most people.

Aren’t docs who are half a 6 or 7 hundred thousand in the hole from fancy degrees absolutely screwed if they’re generalists making 150/hr.

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For prestige or more money?

Within medicine to me it seems like hustlers make money but a hospital wherever they do their residency us gonna make 1 to 150 an hour.

So is it gonna be more lucrative to be a doc with 250k in the bank setting up a few pain mgt. 9th ices with a less prestigious residency or an internist from Harvard working as a hospital is a “good” hospital.

The Harvard gal probably has more shine but the pain guy is probably gonna be rich.

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yeah but calstate is 7k. so 28k total v. 250 k. for ivy tuition is an actual substantial difference. i would say you would get a better shot at a decent life with a cal state degree and 220k in cash, than an ivy degree. in fact, ion average for most kids, i am absoltuely positive of it. individual mileage will of course vary.

now i did not think this way back in 1980 when i was filling out college apps. Iw as thinking, lemme go to the fanciest most prestigious namebrand place so when people hear the name of the school, they go, shoot, dude must be smart.

fat lot of good it does for most of us. its a fools game.

no disrespect to people paying to send their kids. they may be the exception. it’s just, well, my eprsonal experience heavily colors things. i have friends who went to work consulting or doing wall street type gigs back then. keep in mind, thats no guarantee either. there’s plenty of washouts…

also, i paid through the nose for a fancy law school and i am still paying off loans 20 years later.

i am liek a guy who has been burnt. you gotta be cautious with tuition money…

shoot. my ivy league tuition was more in 1985 than cal state today.

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You can wait to have kids and spend yr. TUition on ivf procedures.

We could not save a dime til the kids were pretty old. It was just too tight.

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Let me get this straight.

Live at poverty level…
or liquidate everything you have
To send yr. Kid
To a school
For prestige purposes
Because he might possibly make a connection.

in reality, uh, no.

dumb.

plus one factor that greatly enhances kids odds of success…

is financially stable patents.

not dummies who fork over a fortune on a dream

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No problemo divide by 18. Carry the 3. If I just give up one starbucks latte, my hero in habit and live in a van down b u the river everything will be fine

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Take that no. And multiply by 3 cuz I got 3

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[quote=FlyerInHi]It’s not like you need to come up the the money all once. An 18yo is just out the cocoon. A young reaponaible adult going to grad school can work and will know how best to do right by his parents.

You can afford to pay.[/quote]

You be trippin.

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Tuition. But we lived in married student housing for 1/2 price cause I got elected to the resident council. Steal of a deal.

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My wife went to uci med school for 3000 a year 20 years ago. In retrospect that may be the best buy we ever made.

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I was at the Fallbrook library bookshop. They had a whole row of Buddhist books for sale cheap. I asked, hey why so many Buddhism books? Clerk said, they all came donated from one person. Who seemed very calm when he brought them in. 

So I bought a bunch.

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