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Hold on bro I'm submitting my application to Goldman Sachs IBD. They can't afford to pass up my 3.7 GPA from Prestigious State U.
Two things that people are trying to ignore, and one that no one has even mentioned:
1. PSLF. If you are working for a public institution, you can qualify. This allows your debt to be discharged after ten years. Extra special news: being an attending at a state-operated medical center counts.
2. If you don't qualify for PSLF, EVERYONE can use IBR, which stipulates that you pay 10% of your income per year for ten years towards your loans, and then the rest is forgiven. A few things here: as of now, there is a tax on that amount which is forgiven, which can be quite large.
a. There are currently proposals in legislature to eliminate this tax bomb.
b. If you are smart, you can put some extra income into savings during those ten years and be able to handle the tax bomb. You'll still have plenty of money leftover.
c. If you end up in a high-paying field (Spine Surgery) it'll actually cost less to pay off your loans than to do IBR.
Taking out loans to become a physician is not problematic, especially if you aren't taking out private loans. Everyone needs to calm down and remember that the system is designed so that, as physicians, you'll be able to live a nice lifestyle even with the debt you will build up.
I saw an article...
http://www.amsa.org/AMSA/Homepage/About/Committees/StudentLife/TuitionFAQ.aspx
If it's true that tuition is on average only 3% of an institution's revenue... why do institutions increase it every year in a poor attempt to squeeze more money out of us, even if it won't even begin to cover operating expenses..
I saw an article...
http://www.amsa.org/AMSA/Homepage/About/Committees/StudentLife/TuitionFAQ.aspx
If it's true that tuition is on average only 3% of an institution's revenue... why do institutions increase it every year in a poor attempt to squeeze more money out of us, even if it won't even begin to cover operating expenses..
You have no idea what you're talking about.
The amount forgiven under IBR will be treated as taxable income. The only way to avoid this is by working at a non-profit for 10 years. Let's say a doctor leaves medicine directly after med school, or maybe after residency, to work for a for-profit entity. His income tax owed for the year on which his loans are forgiven will be based on his usual income, minus any deductions, plus $200-300k for the loans to be forgiven.
Let's pretend he gets a good job and makes $87.85k/year. He will be taxed whatever he is normally taxed in addition to 28% of $95k and 33% of $5-105k. His income tax owed for that year will increase by $28-61k. The amount owed is likely much greater as I'm not factoring in accrued interest on $200-300k in loans at 7.9% interest (Grad PLUS rates.)
The IRS will get blood from a stone, too. The IRS failure to pay penalty is 0.5% of the owed tax for each month the tax is not paid in full. Want to ignore that? Your wages will be garnished or maybe they'll throw you in prison.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/opinion/29bach.html?_r=0
What about a plan similar to this (came out in 2011)? Make medical school FREE for all students (~2.5 billion). Reduce or eliminate specialist residency pay. (Not sure if this will include COL either in school or residency training). Considering that most of our real tuition is either subsidized by the government, grants, research funding, and hospital care... why not just eliminate it altogether?
ex-finance, but ok
Enjoy being poor by yourself. I'd prefer not to get robbed by the system while pretending to be a saint.
One word:
Army.
ex-finance, but ok
Doctors aren't poor. Even if you take a doctor making 120k and after paying taxes and loans is only making 40k, then that doctor still wouldn't be considered poor.
I highly doubt that there is any attending whos net income is only 40k though but it just proves even in an extreme example that doctors are not poor.
If you want to say doctors deserve more, then okay,but doctors are not poor though.
Maybe you need 200k or more to be happy. I don't. If I did I would have gone into business.
I'm hardly a saint. I don't pretend not to like money. If a petition came up to raise doctors pay, then I'd sign it. I however, dont think I deserve more just for being a doctor. The market is driven by the people. If people really felt strongly enough about doctors deserving more money then they could just not enter medicine. The fact that they do still enter medicine is proof that they think the salary is satisfying enough.
Thank God I can live at home and attend med school.
I see you haven't even started medical school yet.
Do us a favor and leave this thread; put in enough blood, sweat, and tears to land AOA at your medical school; graduate; and then do 1 year of residency. Come back in 2018 and tell us if you still feel the same way.
Get into a school with lower tuition?
Your arithmetic, sir, is reprehensible. Two things in life are certain: death and taxes. You're ignoring one of them. Living on $10K/year is also laughable. If you plan to delay your life/family until you're 35, then that might be an option, but I got kids to feed.Wat? The average yearly tuition is like 30,000. Add about 1,000 to 1,500 for health insurance, and then your daily expenses, and you can actually live on 10,000 a year. Thus, 40,000 a year*4=160,000. The unsubsidized stafford loans will grow at 6.8%, so it's about 170,000 when you graduate med school.
You make 40,000 in residency and if you live on the same 10,000 a year (yes, very feasible if you dont' spend money on cable tv, booze, smartphone, etc), you have 30,000 left. Pay ~12,000 so your loans don't grow on the initial 170,000 debt and you have 18,000 left. Invest 6,000 of it in your ROTH IRA and you have 12,000 left, which you can apply towards your loans or invest.
I don't owe $500K or anything close to it (with interest, nearing the end of PGY-3, I'm right around $200K), but I did nothing like what you're suggesting, except that my one bedroom apartment was $900/month.You have a lot of choices, you can live in a 1,000 apartment/month place, lease a BMW 3 series car, spend 50 bucks each weekend on drinks, and buy a 2,500 MacBook Pro. It's your choice, but don't complain about the loans then.
You picked the median salary for all physicians of all ages in all specialties. You may want to adjust down if you're claiming that's the "lowest paying salary in the least competitive specialty, attainable right out of residency."You have no idea what you're talking about. I've argued this point dozens of times before and I've had former i-bankers agree with me: unless you have a degree from HPY/MIT/Stanford or unless you have an amazing connection, you're not getting the type of finance job that can pay you $175k/year by the time you're 32 -- you know, the kinds of salaries a physician can earn in the lowest paying and least competitive specialties.
Many/most of them aren't including the vehicle they were given, the abundance of college roommates, the vacations their parents pay for, the cell phone plan their parents pay for, the insurance their parents pay for, the free gym membership the college includes, blah blah blah.I have no idea how people are expecting to live on 10k/year in medical school/residency
That's what I did.Marry a sugar momma, duh lol.
You picked the median salary for all physicians of all ages in all specialties. You may want to adjust down if you're claiming that's the "lowest paying salary in the least competitive specialty, attainable right out of residency."
You make 40,000 in residency and if you live on the same 10,000 a year (yes, very feasible if you dont' spend money on cable tv, booze, smartphone, etc)
Throwing out random numbers isn't an example of anything and only serves to show how little you understand about the costs of running an office. You don't feel like you deserve anything because you haven't sacrificed anything.
$833 a month...
at least $600 of that will be rent, unless you don't mind moving across the hall from the traphouse.
$200 of that will be utilities.
So for the rest of the month you'll have $33.. I guess you could buy one of those 24-packs of Ramen noodles from Costco and throw some chunks of imitation crab meat in there... but you won't be able to get to work because you won't have any gas ..you wont be able to pay your car insurance either. The hospital pager will be your only means of communication because you'll run out of minutes on your Net10 prepaid phone. If you need furniture you could just steal it from the hospital... no no it's cool.. nobody's looking or anything. Spraypaint them a cool neon color, so when people visit your bachelor pad... it has that futuristic look to it
$833 a month...
at least $600 of that will be rent, unless you don't mind moving across the hall from the traphouse.
$200 of that will be utilities.
So for the rest of the month you'll have $33.. I guess you could buy one of those 24-packs of Ramen noodles from Costco and throw some chunks of imitation crab meat in there... but you won't be able to get to work because you won't have any gas ..you wont be able to pay your car insurance either. The hospital pager will be your only means of communication because you'll run out of minutes on your Net10 prepaid phone. If you need furniture you could just steal it from the hospital... no no it's cool.. nobody's looking or anything. Spraypaint them a cool neon color, so when people visit your bachelor pad... it has that futuristic look to it
I see you haven't even started medical school yet.
Do us a favor and leave this thread; put in enough blood, sweat, and tears to land AOA at your medical school; graduate; and then do 1 year of residency. Come back in 2018 and tell us if you still feel the same way.
Also no one is forced into medical school debt. If someone feels like the debt is worth it, I think they hardly have room to complain about it.
You're right. Perhaps through the eyes of a resident, I will view this topic different. I'm not saying doctors dont work hard and dont deserve a good amount of money for what they do. Like I said before if there was a petition or a doctors union to try to gain higher wages, I would totally support it. I just don't see all the doom and gloom that people in this thread are talking about.
Doctors are not poor. Perhaps there wages are low for the type of work they do but they are not poor.
People should at least keep the debate rational.
Also no one is forced into medical school debt. If someone feels like the debt is worth it, I think they hardly have room to complain about it.
Obviously.Specialist salaries are on the order of $250-300k per year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics gives FM (without obstetrics) as $190k/year. The split between the number of practicing specialists and primary care physicians is about 60:40. I'm no mathematical genius, but if 60% are making an average of $250-300k/year and the other 40% are making an average of $190k/year, I'm pretty sure the average for all physicians of all ages in all specialties is going to be higher than $175k/year. As for $175k/year being unattainable for a new attending fresh out of residency...I really doubt it.
Physicians and Surgeons: 2010 Median Pay: This wage is equal to or greater than $166,400
Don't be a jerk, and don't put words in my mouth. Did I say that? No. You were posting factual inaccuracies, and I corrected them. You don't hesitate to do the same every time someone says you can make a bazillion dollars in IB.But please, continue to play martyr. I'm sure every physician could have been unimaginably wealthy. Wall Street firms would love to snatch up Poduk U graduates!
Do you also believe that "no one is forced into undergraduate debt. If someone feels like the debt is worth it, I think they hardly have room to complain about it" even with the recent increases in tuition and the de facto need to have a bachelor's degree to obtain entry-level positions?
Tuition inflation apologists have a special place in hell.
Wat? The average yearly tuition is like 30,000. Add about 1,000 to 1,500 for health insurance, and then your daily expenses, and you can actually live on 10,000 a year. Thus, 40,000 a year*4=160,000. The unsubsidized stafford loans will grow at 6.8%, so it's about 170,000 when you graduate med school.
You make 40,000 in residency and if you live on the same 10,000 a year (yes, very feasible if you dont' spend money on cable tv, booze, smartphone, etc), you have 30,000 left. Pay ~12,000 so your loans don't grow on the initial 170,000 debt and you have 18,000 left. Invest 6,000 of it in your ROTH IRA and you have 12,000 left, which you can apply towards your loans or invest.
Now, if you have a private school college debt that was 160,000, then in most cases it was your choice to attend the school instead of a cheaper one.
You have a lot of choices, you can live in a 1,000 apartment/month place, lease a BMW 3 series car, spend 50 bucks each weekend on drinks, and buy a 2,500 MacBook Pro. It's your choice, but don't complain about the loans then.
Just live in your car in the hospital parking lot.
Also no one is forced into medical school debt. If someone feels like the debt is worth it, I think they hardly have room to complain about it.
Tuition inflation apologists have a special place in hell.
I know, right? The audacity of wanting to be justly compensated for a decade of higher education and training -- it's simply ridiculous! They should consider themselves lucky to even be alive, to even feel the relentless pressure of half a million dollars in nondischargeable loans.
LOL. Definitely in the running for top post of 2013.
I specifically didn't apply outside of Texas for the very reason that tuition is ridiculously expensive for OOS.
Well THAT explains a few things.
You can eat very well (single) on 150/month. Buy on sale, fruits, veggies, cereal, etc. No Ramen here. You can always find deals for housing. I paid 400/month for rent close to school while classmates picked places that were *marginally* nicer for 900/month. Utilities were included, except for internet (20/month) and electricity (40/month) Choices you make...
I'm Asian, we're much more frugal (generally) than Americans.
No, it's not. It depends on your personal situation--if you have a family and kids, yes, you will obviously have more debt accrued. However, you would have had to support your family if you hadn't gone to medicine anyways.
If you are attending a school that costs 30,000 a year for tuition and you are single, you should NOT have 500,000 of debt after 4 years.
Taxes are roughly, depending on state taxes and your income, about 40% for a doctor. So if you make 200,000-250,000 as an attending, it is roughly 120,000-150,000 net. Amortize the 200,000 initial loan debt over 20 years with 20,000 in yearly payments, and it is not too bad. Obviously, it still sucks but thems the rules.
Well, when you have lived in places without running water, electricity, and widespread malaria, you appreciate basic things like food, shelter, and even the internet.
If somebody is happy buying a 1.5 million dollar house and a brand new 5 series BMW costing 50,000, that's their prerogative. But they shouldn't bitch about not having money saved. I'm not saying this is you, just in general. Plus, buying stuff on sale really cuts down on costs.
Well THAT explains a few things.
This what I DID do for the first two years of med school. I actually lived on...9,000 or 9,500/year. FYI, our school insurance was 1,400/year and it was a great cadillac plan. For an individual to get comparable coverage, it would be about 2,500. I'm in a much cheaper place than CA, but still an average cost state. In CA, it is probably like 200 more per month for rent.
Rent: 400.
Utilities+internet:60
Food:150
Phone:40
Health Insurance:115
Total:765.
(I biked to school, it was a few miles away)
If you have a family, obviously, your expenses will be much higher. But your wife may be providing an additional income source.
If you make 40K as a resident, you will be paying tiny taxes. Standard deduction for 2013=6100
Personal exemption, etc.
And I eat a LOT and very well. You can have a 2,500 macbook pro, 500 dollar ipad, cable tv, 100 dollar/month phone plan, etc, etc but that is your CHOICE