$500k Pay, Easy Hours: How Dermatology Became the 'It' Job in Medicine

Re:$500k Pay, Easy Hours: How Dermatology Became the 'It' Jo... by Cumpiler69 on Monday November 18, 2024 @09:09AM (#42172391)

Doctors' profession have artificial barriers to entry and keep the supply limited, in many other countries, but even with those, they won't dream to earn anywhere near 500k.

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Re:$500k Pay, Easy Hours: How Dermatology Became the 'It' Jo... by quantumwoke on Monday November 18, 2024 @09:13AM (#42172422)

This is not true, and you should look at private practice in Canada, Australia, and to a lesser extent U.K.

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Re:$500k Pay, Easy Hours: How Dermatology Became the 'It' Jo... by Cumpiler69 on Monday November 18, 2024 @09:16AM (#42172449)

It's 100% true where I'm from in Europe. The government opens up only a fixed number of residencies positions every year regardless of how many more students graduate (cartel behavior from the national Doctors' association).

My cousin graduated med-school last year and is still unemployed because no hospital had a place for her. Private practices don't fix that issue since they're not designed to be part of the medical teaching cycle. So a lot of young doctors have to emigrate to other EU countries where they can find spots to practice.

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Re:$500k Pay, Easy Hours: How Dermatology Became the 'It' Jo... by quantumwoke on Monday November 18, 2024 @10:59AM (#42173614)

This is orthogonal to your GP point which was about salary. There are a lot of issues with the teaching pipeline AFAIUI so it is difficult to comment on n=1 examples.

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