Originally Posted by Palebluedot

Thank you for sharing and confirming your experience. I am not aiming for my daughter or anyone aspire to become a doctor to earn that kind of money a successful banker earn. After all, the goal, motivation and purpose of each vocation is very different. I just can't stomach that with inflation, higher standard of living and what's not, a houseman's and a MO's pay can remain almost unchanged for close to 20 years.

The second point is that since it is so hard to train a MO, almost a million, why the corresponding pay is, at least in my view, rather low. It is not as if the actual doctor job is relaxing with short hours. I can even accept that a junior doctor is expected to slough it out, be toughen up in first few years of the career to learn the rope. However, it is very discouraging to learn that some doctor remain a MO and earn max pay of $10k after more than 10 years in the field.

Imagine contributing your whole life to work as a MO in hospitals and bringing home $10k at late 40s or even early 50s?