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Originally Posted by Husky
Just to add on to what bjhchong has mentioned. End of the day, being a doctor is just like being any other professional. You toil like a dog for a few thousand dollars. In terms of pay/work ratio, you will be much better off being say an auditor. My friends in accounting/finance are all earning more money than my doctor friends.
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Not quite. Doctors are well respected and enjoy a comparatively higher perceived social status than other professions. Doctors save lives or at least give a better quality of life to patients. They get respectable salaries too.
As for slogging part, it's debatable. I know of friends in IT who frequently have to work feverishly in cold data centres for long hours, sometimes overnight, especially when there's a project roll out or major bug fix. And they don't get paid a lot.