Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
northwestdc10 -
I see that you are new to the forums.
One thing for certain on APC is that FACTS are NOT necessary in these forums.
The fact that you have current experience in the search for medical school counts for nothing. The fact that someone in Hoss' story might be on the outlying fringe of higher debt makes that person's situation the norm. The fact the Hoss heard this from someone makes it more truthful than anything that you might have personally experienced yourself and certainly more truthful than any studies.
Well that sounds familiar.
This post hasn't even scratched the surface of doom and gloom yet!
northwestdc10 - you will have missed some of the sarcasm in my post above and will think me crazy after reading my first paragraph, but the more you read these threads if you stick around APC you might begin to see the method to the madness.
Good luck in the search for the Med school path.
If you also have that love of aviation - being a military flight surgeon is one path to combining both with many of the aforementioned benefits.
USMCFLYR
Yeah, been a lurker on the site for over a year and I'm familiar with the bs or exaggerations that get spread around sometimes. I only chose to comment on Hoss' post because it's an extreme example and only allows uninformed people to think that every doctor in the nation is going to be 500K in the hole. It's one of those careers now that requires you to really plan ahead - better to take time off after school and do other things with your life until you can get into affordable medical school (still a great career if one can do that - great pay stability, flexibility - all of which is greatly diminished with giant debt), or never go at all. 500K is ridiculous and unrecoverable. I think same goes for smaller levels of debt too. I still can't believe BenS is alright with 80K debt, and I think he's at Great Lakes. I don't know the guy but it still makes me anxious. Hope it works out.
That said, Hoss is actually one of my favorite posters who tends to have good information to share. I always enjoy reading about his story at UAL and I've read some good stuff from him before about medicine & aviation.
However USMCFLYR, you'll be disappointed to know I'm a HUGE SkyHigh fan. And apparently you are the owner of a flight school!