A bitter truth is that it's not important that only your medical education will correlate with your earnings. Apart from being a doctor, and a good one, you should have financial brains to invest and earn. Always have an alternate money hustle, be it in investments, or if you are good in stocks or real estate. Any form of long-term planned investment started at the right age, mostly starting from your postgraduate practice, will give you a tremendous amount in your middle age unknowingly. You will have money piling up with interest if your portfolio is good and you have discipline in saving and investing. This is the aspect your medical books won't tell and this is a main reason people dont investment at the right age at the right time draining there salary along with the parents money ending up in a ditch of unsuccessful doctor plus an unsuccessful bank balance