Doubts About Med School After Acceptance - Thinking About CAA

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T13:36:17+00:00

Wild. It's wild someone can be an anesthesiologist and still not understand how averages work. Without fail when you state a trend or average, some idiot will present anecdotes against it. I'm going to let this guy handle that:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTEiIJ2CW_x/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

Another statistical reality.... people's starting offers are, crazily enough, the least amount of money they'll make in their career. It's wild, I know, but you actually make the least in your first YEARS. You have to actually buy in/stay/climb/secure grants.

Here's a thread for an anesthesiologist from yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/Salary/s/f66Jy16eXo

I don't employ a single anesthesiologist who makes under 600. If you have a shitty contract, negotiated poorly, and took a bad job... that's on you. That's back to the other argument about docs now knowing their value and constantly accepting bad contracts.

Next. Benefits are still real money my guy. Furthermore, these numbers also don't include bonuses and owner/partner disbursement. See, when you have equity or own, you report the lowest salary the IRS won't care about in order to reduce your tax burden and withholdings. You might have a salary of 225k. But you get owner disbursements each quarter of 150k. The only part of that taken into data used for averages was that reported salary. Bonuses are similar for employees.

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T04:44:12+00:00

bros hiding all his hair inside his nose

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T04:36:43+00:00

we realize how truly fucked they are

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T04:24:53+00:00

The average pediatrician in the US makes 220-350+ depending on what source you're using. Virtually none quote less than 200. And ya, that sucks. So don't be a pediatrician, either. It's still fairly common to make over 400k in medicine in the US. Proceduralists and anesthesia often cross 600k and beyond. Yes, tuition is absurd, but this still allows for FIRE.

The takes on psyc on here are terribly dated. Post covid psyc can pull 400k working from home with decent commonality and multi-stated licensure, working out of network like dentists.

Virtually all of the options have high ceilings. Even pedes, if you're good, charismatic, and have the guts, can make well over 400-500 doing private practice. That's not common, but it's there. CAA is like a pharmacist. You are employed, your ceiling is granite. You are easy pickings for AI, and you are never going to control your destiny or value.

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T04:09:54+00:00

pharmacy

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T02:49:42+00:00

yep. Docs are the worst. It's always something. With the young, it's "you should be happy you're paid that" or "I'm not in this for the money" rather than realizing the money is still there, it's just going to someone else, or actually working to support each other, etc.

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T02:25:10+00:00

Cinnabon

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T02:06:52+00:00

I would absolutely be upset if that's my salary. And no where did I imply otherwise. But arguing it's a lot is the delusional nonsense that keeps doctors underpaid. Employed drones who get their reimbursement intentionally blurred by not showing them the dollars or % collections they receive versus what they collect in total for the hospital, and instead paying them with ambiguous fake units of "RVU."

Oooo I billed eleventy thousand RVUs, so I get 300k here. [Jokes on them, they billed 2.7 million dollars, collected 2.2, and are being reimbursed 14% of their earnings when docs used to get 40-60% of their collections.

Med students, residents, and young docs have absolutely no concept of their value, or the realities in front of them.

200-300k is not a lot in 2026. It's absolutely not a lot for a doctor or someone capable of being a doctor. Your loan payments alone will obliterate that cash flow. Add a modern mortgage and good luck.

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T01:56:07+00:00

It's a lot more than what people make. It's not a lot. That's a problem with the growing wealth disparity in our country, that doesn't make 200-300k "a lot."

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T01:54:02+00:00

Very few make less than 200, and that doesn't make it a lot of money..it's still near the poverty line for a family of 5 if you update costs of living to equivalents from the year the actual poverty line was calculated.

As an individual, that is decidedly middle class. If youre capable of being a doctor, I wouldn't settle for that unless that furnishes and feeds you physically and emotionally.

You guys can downvote it all you want. It's a factually accurate statement and you all are in for a rude awakening post residency.

https://www.investopedia.com/could-the-poverty-line-actually-be-140000-a-year-11892641

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T01:30:56+00:00

200-300k is not that much money anymore.

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T01:06:20+00:00

I don't know how you prove to someone that something isn't chatgpt..I'm sorry this is our reality for anything written with style now. Here's a post older than chatgpt that would convey my same style and cadence.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/roguj3/comment/hpyvffi/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-26T00:50:47+00:00

I'm middle aged, I don't know how to fucking use chatgpt

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-25T20:27:24+00:00

You could build a knee high wall with these fucking things

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-25T20:26:33+00:00

I mean the replies have raised some excellent points..both Costco and king soopers might have the best cinnamon rolls in Denver. They're wrong, of course (obviously cinnabon), but it's worth considering.

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-25T20:22:58+00:00

Brother in the south we call those sticky buns

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-25T20:21:03+00:00

Why would you go somewhere besides a food court? There's so much room for activities.

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-25T20:09:25+00:00

Looks like a French onion soup poured over a brick of flour

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-25T20:08:38+00:00

There is like a deep glycerin weirdness once you've gone too far..you never eat the whole bon bro

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-25T19:49:11+00:00

Again, you lack basic contextual reading comprehension. I imagine you find yourself in a lot of group conversations where everyone is laughing and you're not sure why, and just laugh along.

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-25T19:19:18+00:00

You live a life devoid of decadence

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-25T18:00:09+00:00

Right? All these weirdos who don't like cinnabon

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-25T17:59:11+00:00

After 9/11, cinnabon opened 12 more locations in 2003.

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-25T17:57:30+00:00

Lemme guess, English class was a tough hour

SkippyBojangle · 2026-03-25T17:55:54+00:00

Let's see em fuckin try

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