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The article is interesting but I don't think it tells the whole truth. Dr. Bisutti is a fellowship trained Internist...and she had trouble paying $1500/month in student loans? Missed some payments? It sounds like she didn't take her student loans very seriously.
This was a sobering article but honestly, this woman brought this financial misfortune on herself. She even states she wasn't careful with her finances...who does that?
cool_vkb,
I can see the point you are trying to make with the story about your friends being unsuccessful in selling their house but, I have to ask, why would they purchase a house in the first place if they knew living in Chicago was only a temporary situation? What's wrong with renting an apartment and signing a year to year lease? This would allow them to have no strings attached once they decided to leave.
This is what I thought too, something doesn't quite add up.
Even if she is making only 200k a year, she should be able to clean her student loan mess up by moving into an apartment, living on rice and beans and just throwing every single extra dollar at her loans for say 7-10 years or so.
200k gross - call it 120k after taxes, live on 50k and throw 70k year at your loans until they are gone.
That really took about 7 seconds to figure out. I'd be interested to hear why she doesn't see this as a legitimate path out of her mess.
Paying on those loans when you are 70? No thanks.
Lets hope we all get residencies or else we will be next on the news 🙂
Two of my friends graduated from reputed engineering schools in USA with Undergrad and Masters degree in Environmental Engineering and the other in Mechanical Engineering.Each has an approx loan of 40-60K. Now its almost a year and half they graduated and still didnt got a job.How are they suppose to pay? As far as i know they are gonna default. With country's unemployment rate around 9.7% (basically 1 out of 10 americans is jobless). The defaulters will be on rise.
And if we ever get public healthcare (now my understanding may be wrong regarding its effect on our salaries) but from the people i spoke they told me that if we get public healthcare then our salaries will be severely compromised. Say if we earn 20-30% less than what we earn now. how are we suppose to pay our debts. That never shows up in any debate. what abt the huge student loans we carry? how should we manage?
All in all I'm not worried too much about getting a residency (after seeing the competition during interviews and reading some of the posts on these forums)...

You can say what you want about dtrack but his post is true. If we take the loans seriously we will be able to pay them off. Defaulters are definately the minority.
His comments are un-becoming of a future health professional...plain and simple. It's a little premature to be claiming who is landing a residency spot and who isn't. We haven't even started school yet!
Do well in school, publish some research, get involved in your community and do YOUR PART of promoting this profession. Once you accomplish all of that then come back here talk about how wonderful you are.
My post only spoke of my confidence in my ability to succeed in pod school and land a residency. If you don't feel the same way about your own education then why are you going into $200,000 of debt??
There is some part of you that knows you're going to be fine or you wouldn't have signed your life away. I chose to speak openly about that feeling, you did not. To each his own.
I was going to make a joke about whiskers' and my private therapy sessions and how insightful his psychoanalysis was...however, looking at the other thread he started I'm afraid you believe everything you read. You really thought he was just pre-psych