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Old 04-10-2012, 08:51 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by craftyconqueror View Post
Could you elaborate? I expect it to be difficult, but why not even bother?

Thanks!
It's not that I hate medicine or don't think anyone should go to medical school. Just that I would have made a different cost-benefit analysis for *myself* if I had known that the costs would be this high.

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Originally Posted by startoverat40
from my experience, if you ask a resident if it's worth it to apply to medical school, they will say "are you crazy? why would you want to do that?". But if you ask them again 10 years later, they will say "ya sure, go for it!"
From my experience, that's true for some people and not for others. Either way, don't be too quick to be smug. Even if you're right in my case, and I sincerely hope you are, it's easy to blow off the magnitude of the costs when they're being experienced by someone else and not you.
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