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[dafuturesurgeon]

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Hey, just looking into some surgical specialties. Can you (surgeons, physicians, etc) lay out your lifestyle, monthly costs or yearly, how much you save/invest, cars you drive, houses you own etc..


I think this will really answer a lot of people's questions associated with their choosing of life goals and medical professions.

thanks


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[SouthernSurgeon]

No

 

[dr zaius]

I'm finishing my second year as a general surgery resident. I drive a lambo and engage in coitus with a different super model each night at minimum. YMMV.

 

[SLUser11]

I'm finishing my second year as a general surgery resident. I drive a lambo and engage in coitus with a different super model each night at minimum. YMMV.

Yeah, I went through that Lambo/supermodel phase too when I was a junior resident. When you become a chief, you recognize the benefit of owning your own sports franchise and similar small-potato activities. These days, I'm focused mostly on my private space travel business (when I'm not operating).

 

[ItinerantSurgeon]

CT attending here. First divorce during my fellowship, currently working on my second. Separated from my present wife and living in a studio apartment in the seedy part of town on the account of them there alimony payments to the first wife and restraining order from the second wife. On call tonight and all of tonight's take will go to the ex-wife and the "lifestyle she's accustomed to" as the judge man tells me. Doing some botox work on the side in a rented office at the local strip mall to make ends meet. Gents, send your wives, girlfriends, and any women folk you know my way for some botox and I'll make sure some green ends up in your pockets for the referrals.

 

[ThoracicGuy]

I own a small country now. Between that and all the ladies that drive by I barely have time to operate. But I manage. It's a tough job and I have to make sacrifices, but in the end, that's what we all went to medical school for.

 

[neusu]

CT attending here. First divorce during my fellowship, currently working on my second. Separated from my present wife and living in a studio apartment in the seedy part of town on the account of them there alimony payments to the first wife and restraining order from the second wife. On call tonight and all of tonight's take will go to the ex-wife and the "lifestyle she's accustomed to" as the judge man tells me. Doing some botox work on the side in a rented office at the local strip mall to make ends meet. Gents, send your wives, girlfriends, and any women folk you know my way for some botox and I'll make sure some green ends up in your pockets for the referrals.

Do you need a partner for your botox clinic?

 

[dr zaius]

Yeah, I went through that Lambo/supermodel phase too when I was a junior resident. When you become a chief, you recognize the benefit of owning your own sports franchise and similar small-potato activities. These days, I'm focused mostly on my private space travel business (when I'm not operating).

I start urology in July, so I think I'm supposed to shift my focus to collecting refinished original WWII planes and opening a scotch distillery/hand-made bowtie company. Ugh I should stick with general surgery.

 

[dafuturesurgeon]

Oh im sorry for asking a legitimate question.. I do not appreciate the childish replies.

Online research has gotten me a variety of answers regarding pay and im particularly wondering about how one bills medicare and the intricacies of how you ACTUALLY get paid.

If you care to continue the arrogance then please do not reply to this question again. Seriously i thought we were a little more mature on here, but i guess you either have something against questions or you are an actual child.


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[MediCane2006]

I drive a 1995 toyota and live in a seedy apartment building on the poor side of town.

All my plastic surgeon earnings get funneled straight to my offshore accounts. Couple more years and I'll have enough to buy an island in the Seychelles and a yacht and retire at age 42.

 

[SouthernSurgeon]

I only drive a tesla model 3 to save money on my measly budget...

But when I told them I was a surgeon they made the first one just for me two years early, so that's a nice perk you won't see in the salary charts...

 

[dr zaius]

Hey, just looking into some surgical specialties. Can you (surgeons, physicians, etc) lay out your lifestyle, monthly costs or yearly, how much you save/invest, cars you drive, houses you own etc..


I think this will really answer a lot of people's questions associated with their choosing of life goals and medical professions.

thanks


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Oh im sorry for asking a legitimate question.. I do not appreciate the childish replies.

Online research has gotten me a variety of answers regarding pay and im particularly wondering about how one bills medicare and the intricacies of how you ACTUALLY get paid.

If you care to continue the arrogance then please do not reply to this question again. Seriously i thought we were a little more mature on here, but i guess you either have something against questions or you are an actual child.


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See how these two posts are completely different questions?

I'll be getting back to my champagne yacht party now.

 

[thedrjojo]

Man, I choose the wrong residency...

The price of living near Nyc was that I had to sacrifice my first born to ares, God of war, and on every third night slaughter a goat and eat it's heart.

But on the bright side, I can take a train to Nyc whenever I want!

 

[thedrjojo]

Oh im sorry for asking a legitimate question.. I do not appreciate the childish replies.

Online research has gotten me a variety of answers regarding pay and im particularly wondering about how one bills medicare and the intricacies of how you ACTUALLY get paid.

If you care to continue the arrogance then please do not reply to this question again. Seriously i thought we were a little more mature on here, but i guess you either have something against questions or you are an actual child.


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Wait, people aren't answering seriously?

If I can't trust my fellow Sdn posters, then I can't trust anyone... My whole world is in shambles!

 

[ACSurgeon]

Hey, just looking into some surgical specialties. Can you (surgeons, physicians, etc) lay out your lifestyle, monthly costs or yearly, how much you save/invest, cars you drive, houses you own etc..


I think this will really answer a lot of people's questions associated with their choosing of life goals and medical professions.

thanks


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There are many reasons you're not getting serious replies. First of all: choosing surgery is motivated entirely by non-money/lifestyle reasons. You do surgery because you fall in love with it during your rotations. You "put up" with the lifestyle and relatively "poor pay". Second, once you're an attending you can work as little as every other week (trauma/ACS) or work 80+ hours a week. You can make 200k-1 mil+ per year. Hard to pin point specifics and by the time you complete training, things might be drastically different. For example, when I started medical school 9 years ago, most surgeons in my home town were private practice in independent physician practices. Today, they are ALL employed (i.e. the different practices were bought by different companies).

 

[dafuturesurgeon]

TO ALL: I already love surgery.. noted i will truly see in residency and rotations, but look a little deeper in SDN and find posts (older) about topics on salary, lifestyle, and choosing medicine for the money (something i do not believe in).
All of those older posts got serious answers. I am just bringing the subject back up for relevance sake.

Like i said, if you feel the need to respond stupidity, REFRAIN!

SDN is for serious questions and serious answers. Not putting a fellow SDNer down and claiming my question is Tom Foolery.


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[Pir8DeacDoc]

But the way you presented your questions was ridiculous. So you were rightfully ridiculed

 

[dafuturesurgeon]

teach me your ways @pri8deacdoc


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[SouthernSurgeon]

TO ALL: I already love surgery.. noted i will truly see in residency and rotations, but look a little deeper in SDN and find posts (older) about topics on salary, lifestyle, and choosing medicine for the money (something i do not believe in).
All of those older posts got serious answers. I am just bringing the subject back up for relevance sake.

Like i said, if you feel the need to respond stupidity, REFRAIN!

SDN is for serious questions and serious answers. Not putting a fellow SDNer down and claiming my question is Tom Foolery.


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If you want a "serious" response?

Your questions were naive, poorly thought out and expressed. They were, furthermore, never appropriate for this forum to begin with, as clearly spelled out in both the terms of the site and the FAQs posted at the top of the page.

So they were met with exactly the degree of "seriousness" deserved.

 

[Mad Jack]

TO ALL: I already love surgery.. noted i will truly see in residency and rotations, but look a little deeper in SDN and find posts (older) about topics on salary, lifestyle, and choosing medicine for the money (something i do not believe in).
All of those older posts got serious answers. I am just bringing the subject back up for relevance sake.

Like i said, if you feel the need to respond stupidity, REFRAIN!

SDN is for serious questions and serious answers. Not putting a fellow SDNer down and claiming my question is Tom Foolery.


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You asked people about their personal spending habits, the houses they live in, the cars they drive, etc. I don't know what sort of circles you run in, but a lot of why you got the flak you did was that such questions (particularly the financial ones) are impolite in most circles. Couple that with the apparent shallow nature of the OP, the fact that you put "lifestyle" and "surgery" in the same paragraph, and the fact that you implied knowing what people's finances, cars, and houses were like could assist someone in determining whether surgery was or was not right for them and, well, let's just say you got the response you were asking for.

 

[dafuturesurgeon]

is it wrong to wonder such things?
just answer me that


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[tiedyeddog]

is it wrong to wonder such things?
just answer me that


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Yes. Why do you need to know such a thing? You can look up the average income of various surgical subspecialties. What people choose to do with their income has nothing to do with what you'll choose to do with yours.


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[dafuturesurgeon]

im sorry, are any of you OBLIGATED to answer? NO so do not take offense to something you have NO OBLIGATION TO ANSWER?? too much to ask? i guess so


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[wholeheartedly]

OP is still in high school. closing as thread is not productive.

 

[Winged Scapula]

I'd reply seriously but I'm currently sitting on the Champs Elysees drinking champagne and writing it off on my taxes because I'm here on biznezz (seriously).

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[wholeheartedly]

I'd reply seriously but I'm currently sitting on the Champs Elysees drinking champagne and writing it off on my taxes because I'm here on biznezz (seriously).View attachment 203852View attachment 203853View attachment 203854

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That's almost evil.

 

[Winged Scapula]

That's almost evil.

Gotta give the high schoolers something to live for.

I mean, back in my day, I looked forward to Fridays when we could eat lunch off campus and I could go Taco Bell but kids these days have higher standards.