Why aren’t there gold diggers in the medical library?

[getpumpedforexams]

Some of my classes mates say that since they started using white coat pics on Tindr they’ve had way better luck.


I’m not into that sorta thing but it occurred to me... why aren’t the type of people who are matching people cause they have a white coat hanging out in the medical library. Isn’t that where you would go to meet someone who’s going to be a doctor?

Where else are you going to find such a high number of people who are going to make solid 6 figures and you can just walk into?

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[bashwell]

Some of my classes mates say that since they started using white coat pics on Tindr they’ve had way better luck.


I’m not into that sorta thing but it occurred to me... why aren’t the type of people who are matching people cause they have a white coat hanging out in the medical library. Isn’t that where you would go to meet someone who’s going to be a doctor?

Where else are you going to find such a high number of people who are going to make solid 6 figures and you can just walk into?

That's because med students with their noses buried in books or physicians studying in a medical library usually aren't rich. Gold diggers only want them when they're finished with residency and making the supposed millions (lol, wait till they find out about how much debt most new doctors have!).

But I wouldn't want a long-term relationship with a gold digger. Instead give me the cute girl who is studying in the medical library alongside me.

 

[Perpetually Perplexed]

I’m not into that sorta thing but it occurred to me... why aren’t the type of people who are matching people cause they have a white coat hanging out in the medical library. Isn’t that where you would go to meet someone who’s going to be a doctor?

Because a) it's not fun to just hang out in the library and b) what would they say when they met a medical student? They would have absolutely no reason to be in the library. Plus, as bash said, most gold-diggers don't have the patience for delayed gratification (well, at least not for a physician's salary). When you're young, beautiful and having a blast partying it's hard to sacrifice having fun in your twenties for the future. c) Values change with time.

 

[getpumpedforexams]

I mean I don’t think the people my classmates are matching on tindr are empty headed idiots.


I think there probably decent looking people who are decently intelligent. And that they’re having better luck means that the doctor factor makes some number of those people more likely to match them.


Maybe I should not have used the term gold digger because of the connotations it has.

That's because med students with their noses buried in books or physicians studying in a medical library usually aren't rich. Gold diggers only want them when they're finished with residency and making the supposed millions (lol, wait till they find out about how much debt most new doctors have!).

But I wouldn't want a long-term relationship with a gold digger. Instead give me the cute girl who is studying in the medical library alongside me.

 

[getpumpedforexams]

Because a) it's not fun to just hang out in the library and b) what would they say when they met a medical student? They would have absolutely no reason to be in the library. Plus, as bash said, most gold-diggers don't have the patience for delayed gratification (well, at least not for a physician's salary). When you're young, beautiful and having a blast partying it's hard to sacrifice having fun in your twenties for the future. c) Values change with time.

I mean people read and do stuff on their computer?

Also I guess I should not have used the word golddigger. But I mean people who are intelligent and want to be financially secure, which is who I assume my class mates are matching with.


We have 40K undergrads. You’d think at least some would fit into that category, and they’d be in a library doing school work anyway.

 

[PlutoBoy]

I mean people read and do stuff on their computer?

Also I guess I should not have used the word golddigger. But I mean people who are intelligent and want to be financially secure, which is who I assume my class mates are matching with.


We have 40K undergrads. You’d think at least some would fit into that category, and they’d be in a library doing school work anyway.

Are you trying to get one for yourself? What's your step 1 score and AOA status? I'll tell you what you can get.

 

[getpumpedforexams]

Nope.


It just struck me last week and I was like … that’s strange.


It almost seemed like something they’d address in “freakonomics”

Are you trying to get one for yourself? What's your step 1 score and AOA status? I'll tell you what you can get.

 

[877216]

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[Crayola227]

sigh, another one of these threads

wearing your white coat on Tindr is for total losers

 

[atomi]

Some of my classes mates say that since they started using white coat pics on Tindr they’ve had way better luck.


I’m not into that sorta thing but it occurred to me... why aren’t the type of people who are matching people cause they have a white coat hanging out in the medical library. Isn’t that where you would go to meet someone who’s going to be a doctor?

Where else are you going to find such a high number of people who are going to make solid 6 figures and you can just walk into?

2 things.

1. Picking up a medical student for the purposes of "gold digging" is pretty stupid. If you're that dedicated to the long game, then you might as well go to medical school yourself. Gold diggers want to marry into money immediately.
2. Your classmates using Tinder have genital herpes and self-esteem problems.

 

[deleted103644]

If I were looking for gold, it would be on Wall St and to a lesser extent Silicon Valley. Even corporate law.

Med students are a quarter million under water.

This is some inverse Willie Sutton logic here.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

See the thing is that gold diggers only go for guys that actually have some gold....

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

If I were looking for gold, it would be on Wall St and to a lesser extent Silicon Valley. Even corporate law.

Med students are a quarter million under water.

This is some inverse Willie Sutton logic here.

I dunno, sure you'll have a rough few years but if you can land yourself an orthopedic surgeon. That's half a mil per year AND a spouse whose never at home...

 

[GypsyHummus]

Think of all the Wine consumed and Luxury cars purchased! These gold diggers are good for the economy.

Believe me, I know women who have hooked up with a medical students, with long term projection in mind. Don't think that there aren't people out there who are willing to wait it out 4 years and then get all that doctor money, especially if its a MS3 or MS4. Pop out a few kids and the doc is now a wage slave to this harpy.

Its a story old as time, song as old as rhyme. To think this scenario doesn't exist is to dilute oneself.

I dunno, sure you'll have a rough few years but if you can land yourself an orthopedic surgeon. That's half a mil per year AND a spouse whose never at home...

 

[getpumpedforexams]

Exactly. Everyone on SDN is like “oh med students so poor” but not really.


2-3 years as an attending living like a resident and you’re even and then making 200k+ a year.


Not to mention the public perception is doctors are rich.

I dunno, sure you'll have a rough few years but if you can land yourself an orthopedic surgeon. That's half a mil per year AND a spouse whose never at home...

 

[bashwell]

OP, I'm not sure what you're really asking. Are you asking how you can get a girl mainly based on being a med student with a short white coat and steth -- i.e., "Why don't girls flock to me now that I'm a med student? Can't they see that I'm going to be rich and have a lot of social prestige someday?"

Also, are you hoping for something long-term like marriage?

 

[aformerstudent]

A gold digger is going after a businessman first...not a doctor.

 

[Donald Juan]

sigh, another one of these threads

wearing your white coat on Tindr is for total losers

Yeah, if you really want to pull the ladies you get a pic of yourself scrubbed into an OR case.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Everyone on SDN is like “oh med students so poor” but not really.

But we are tho.....

 

[bashwell]

Exactly. Everyone on SDN is like “oh med students so poor” but not really.


2-3 years as an attending living like a resident and you’re even and then making 200k+ a year.


Not to mention the public perception is doctors are rich.

There's a difference between being poor vs not being rich. Most med students aren't necessarily poor, but they're also not rich. Originally you asked about gold diggers who by definition want to date or marry the rich. Hence most med students don't fit the profile for what gold diggers typically want.

However, being a doctor doesn't necessarily mean you'll be rich either. What if you don't get the Step 1 score or grades to become an orthopedic or any other surgeon? Or what if you find out after doing a rotation that surgery just isn't for you? What if you become a pediatrician or a PCP instead, either by choice or because you couldn't get the right grades, scores, or LORs like if you upset the wrong people, or residency or fellowship PDs just didn't like you for whatever reason? Maybe if you are a rural PCP, then you can eventually pay back your loans, and eventually get rich, or more likely middle or upper middle class. But you'll have to find a girl willing to go rural with you. Or what if you are a surgeon or other proceduralist like an anesthesiologist but injure your hands and disability insurance doesn't pay nearly as well as a full time surgeon? What if medicine becomes single payer, or even bundled payments like is already happening, and bundled payment models end up making most doctors' salaries dramatically decrease? What if most private practices or groups get bought out by huge hospital systems or corporations like is currently happening and so most doctors become employees in the future, and what if employed doctors make significantly less than doctors in private practice? Or what if you end up working so much for those riches that you end up destroying your relationships? There are so many other factors involved that the future is not necessarily going to be rainbows and unicorns for you. You'll most likely have a good job in a good field making more than most Americans, but whether that means what you expect it to be is a different story.

 

[deleted103644]

I dunno, sure you'll have a rough few years but if you can land yourself an orthopedic surgeon. That's half a mil per year AND a spouse whose never at home...

No guarantee that the med student won't trade up when they become an attending.

 

[GoSpursGo]

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