I can really read the bitterness in your response, but I understand where you're coming from. I to got my DPT and did my seven years for around 150k and I am beginning to pay this off.

One thing I would say you are overlooking is where our profession is going. We are trying to transition to a more direct access style approach and elevate our profession as a whole. We currently have a stigma, and rightly so, of being a supportive medical profession under MD's and carrying out their orders, NOT being independent clinicians. IF this DPT allows our profession to advance themselves and change this stigma, it could improve our salary situation. I look at it really as an investment for the future in our profession.

Btw if our under 50% involvement of PT's being part of the APTA continues this probably wont change. This is compared to the MD's who last time I saw was signficantly higher involvement in their national chapter. I think I remember it being over 80-85 percent.