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Kekes Posted 19 years ago
Medical & Dental Studies

doctor, good profession ?

0 01font00 do you think doctor is a good profession? I have known that many people want to be a doctor in hospital. they think that it will bing them a lot of money. but actually income of doctors is not much. I am a medical student. I don't like medicine. because I think working in hospital does not pay me well. especally when you graduate and begin to work, your income is much lower than people in other professions in several years. and more to work in hospital is very hard. as a young man, I want to earn enough money to pay my comfortable life. but It is impossible for a young doctor. being a doctor, you can have a lot of money when you are old enough . but is it still attractive , when i'm old? many people around me have the same opinion with me. I want to konw whether it is the same in other countries around the world(i am from china). frome the american movies, doctors in this country are rich and respecting. why do their income are so high? doctors in european are the same?02font00 0-
  

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0 The average wage for a consultant in the National Health Service at the moment is, I believe, £137,000 a year - and this figure is 01b 01i 00tiny02i 02b 00 in comparison with the money a consultant can earn privately in the UK. It's more than the Prime Minister earns (technically). I don't know how old you are, but as a medical student you must be in your early twenties.

— Lil' Ruby Rose

  • 0 The average wage for a consultant in the National Health Service at the moment is, I believe, £137,000 a year - and this figure is 01b 01i 00tiny02i 02b 00 in comparison with the money a consultant can earn privately in the UK.
  • It's more than the Prime Minister earns (technically).
  • I don't know how old you are, but as a medical student you must be in your early twenties.
  • Some of the consultants in the hospitals I work in are only in their early forties.
  • Of course it's hard work as a junior doctor - but it's for a relatively short time, and it's certainly not as hard work as some other jobs.
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0 The average wage for a consultant in the National Health Service at the moment is, I believe, £137,000 a year - and this figure is 01b01i00tiny02i02b00 in comparison with the money a consultant can earn privately in the UK. It's more than the Prime Minister earns (technically). I don't know how old you are, but as a medical student you must be in your ea
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0 "this figure is 01b01i00tiny02i02b00 in comparison with the money a consultant can earn privately in the UK." do you mean they open private cliniques to earn money? if not, they have other ways to earn money? are there many students want to study medicine in your country? I'm very curious about this. 0-
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0 Yes it is very competitive to get into medical school. However it is not all easy after that. They then have to compete for further specialist training and there are more trainee doctors than there are posts for them. Doctors are generally very well respected though. 0-
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0 Hello Kekes, every profession is a good profession if you like to do it! My dad is a doctor in medicine (while I'm a doctor in algae). For sure he has a better salary than mine even if he doesn't work at the hospital, in fact he is a general practitioner, a 'family doctor', not a professional man.02br
00Anyway it seems to me that saying 'I want to be a doctor because I want to beco
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0My sibling is a doc. and has already passed all the exams he needs to be a specialist in his field. 02br
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00I don't know if saving lives was his original motivation; my parents were blue-collar workers and "encouraging" one of their kids to choose a prestigious profession was their only form of upward mobility. That said, I have to say my sibling is great at what he doe
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0thank you, Francesca. I will to save people's lives and work hard01i00. 02i00the university I study in is the NO. 2 in china. only the best students can be admitted. students graduating from other majors will become rich in 2 or 3 years. but for medical students, the road to rich is very long. hard work but low paid. that is not fair. so I think salaries of doctors in ch
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0nice to meet you,julielai. 02br
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00do you live in shanghai? you adimir your sibling very much. I also want to be a doctors without thinking about money. but it can not be relistical. which hospital he is now?02br
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00maybe we are in the same hospital.050010id1
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0I am not from Shanghai. 02br
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00Nice to meet you too. :-) 0-
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0hi julielai,02br
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0Hi Kekes,02br
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00I’m a doctor and work in a hospital. More than ten years. I’m not rich, but not poor, too. When I started to study medicine I didn’t have idea what exactly it is. Now I know. It’s the hours after your patient died, the happiness in the patient’s eyes when he/she kisses your hand to thank, the hope of someone who entrust you his/her life, also long night
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