If you had a chance to go back to your college years, would you still choose to go to medicine and would you choose dental over medicine ?
if you compare Dental vs Medicine based on the list below, which career would you choose?
1) School costs: I think School cost is almost the same and it is easier for doctor to pay it off
2) Salary: Dentist starts earlier to make money, but with low salary. Doctor spends extra years for residency, but will start with high salary once done with residency.
3) lifestyle/family time: Dentist is more flexible and works 40-50 hours a week. Doctors are less flexible and work 50-80 hours a week. Dentist can spend much more time with family and to enjoy the money they make. Doctors can have less time with their family and to enjoy spending their money, even if they have much higher salary than Dentist, they still can not have time to do much with their money, instead of buying cars they drive only to get work and big house they use only to sleep.
4) retirement: I am not sure about this. Dentist make less money, but might be able to retire earlier with less retirement money than doctors. Doctors can put more money to retirement, but retire late.
5) stress level: Dentist has lower stress levels, because his patient life is not in danger. Doctors have very high level of stress, because of their patient life depends on the diagnosis they make and also the insurance and government.
6) Job opportunity: I think for Dentist, it takes much longer to settle in work place with good salary and in big cities with high percentage of patients. Dentist also needs to work 3-5 years to save enough money to open his own dental office. Doctor's job is stable and guarantees job safety for long time and I think it is easier for Doctor to find a job, but not necessarily in desired locations. It is also hard to them to obtain the residency in the specialty they desire.
if you compare Dental vs Medicine based on the list below, which career would you choose?
1) School costs: I think School cost is almost the same and it is easier for doctor to pay it off
2) Salary: Dentist starts earlier to make money, but with low salary. Doctor spends extra years for residency, but will start with high salary once done with residency.
3) lifestyle/family time: Dentist is more flexible and works 40-50 hours a week. Doctors are less flexible and work 50-80 hours a week. Dentist can spend much more time with family and to enjoy the money they make. Doctors can have less time with their family and to enjoy spending their money, even if they have much higher salary than Dentist, they still can not have time to do much with their money, instead of buying cars they drive only to get work and big house they use only to sleep.
4) retirement: I am not sure about this. Dentist make less money, but might be able to retire earlier with less retirement money than doctors. Doctors can put more money to retirement, but retire late.
5) stress level: Dentist has lower stress levels, because his patient life is not in danger. Doctors have very high level of stress, because of their patient life depends on the diagnosis they make and also the insurance and government.
6) Job opportunity: I think for Dentist, it takes much longer to settle in work place with good salary and in big cities with high percentage of patients. Dentist also needs to work 3-5 years to save enough money to open his own dental office. Doctor's job is stable and guarantees job safety for long time and I think it is easier for Doctor to find a job, but not necessarily in desired locations. It is also hard to them to obtain the residency in the specialty they desire.
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