How do you like your eggs?
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Posted by satchmo on Mon Aug 8th at 11:10pm 2005


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Are you a "usual" doctor, or a specialist of some kind?

No, I am just a general pediatrician. I earn $65 per hour, but I work ten to fourteen hours a day, seven days a week. I work very hard.

And that's how much I earn before taxes. I think Uncle Sam takes away about 2/3 of that. So I am really feeding all the poor people in America.

And I save most of my earnings. I don't spend it recklessly. I buy a new computer every three or four years, and I put it together myself.




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Posted by OtZman on Mon Aug 8th at 11:16pm 2005


2/3 in taxes? And I always thought that the USA had low taxes.






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Posted by WarloK on Mon Aug 8th at 11:24pm 2005


Thats alot, in the UK its like 1/4 or something like that.

I want to be a Doctor, and i also want to be a rock god. I'm tied between them. I don't know how it works in America but i think i have good standards for med school.
I have:
Credit 2 in English
Credit 1 in Biology
Credit 1 in Chemistry
Credit 1 in Hisory
General 3 in Maths
i just do Accounting and admin
and General 3 in Craft.

In my school our classes in third year of High school are sorted in the levels we got during second year. Accounting and admin have no levels as we did not do them in second year.





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Posted by satchmo on Mon Aug 8th at 11:32pm 2005


Did I say 2/3 in taxes? It's more like 40%. Americans pay lower taxes when we're having an average income. But when we make more than $100,000 a year, the tax rate goes way up.

In order to make it into a respectable medical school and residency, I made top grades in high school and college. I was first in my class for both high school and university. I had a perfect academic record back in my schooling days, and I was pretty proud of it.

Put it in "Harry Potter" terms, my grades were just as good as Hermione's.




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Posted by ReNo on Mon Aug 8th at 11:35pm 2005


The amount of taxation in a country can't really just be summarised by a single percentage; different amounts are taken from the various bands of income. In the UK it is...
  • 10 per cent on taxable income up to ?2,090
  • 22 per cent on taxable income between ?2,091 and ?32,400
  • 40 per cent on taxable income over ?32,401
No I didn't know those, I looked them up Oh and of course you also have to remember that that is just income tax, and there is also national insurance, VAT, and what have you on top of that.






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Posted by BlisTer on Tue Aug 9th at 12:28am 2005


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In fact, I didn't start dating until I was in college, and I didn't have a girlfriend until I was in my thirties. I studied my brains out in college and medical school. I wouldn't have been the top of my class otherwise.



i dont know how the medicine education works in the States, is it necessary to be amongst the top of the class to be able to choose the specialisation that you want ?

Even if it's like that, i'm sure that only specialisations like surgeon would require the top students. In other words, suppose you hadn't been the top of your class, but average, would you not have been able to choose pediatrician ?

all i'm saying is, it's perfectly possible to combine a tough education with having fun, going out, etc... atleast that's how i experienced it. you're not the top of your class but you're efficient: least effort for good-enough results. i gladly made the "sacrifice" of not being amongst the top of the class, atleast i had fun during years that never come back once you start working.




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Posted by Nickelplate on Tue Aug 9th at 1:28am 2005


? quoting satchmo
And that's how much I earn before taxes. I think Uncle Sam takes away about 2/3 of that.

So I am really feeding all the poor people in America.

Now that you're married, you will have much lower taxes! YAY!!! Bachelors get the SHAFT with taxes.

and, LOL!!!!




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Posted by wil5on on Tue Aug 9th at 9:34am 2005


? quoting satchmo
In fact, I didn't start dating until I was in college, and I didn't have a girlfriend until I was in my thirties. I studied my brains out in college and medical school. I wouldn't have been the top of my class otherwise

What sucks is when youre infatuated with a girl whos like this <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">




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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Tue Aug 9th at 1:54pm 2005


If this thread was on any other forum, it would have been spammed, flamed, raped and closed by the 3rd page.

Just throwing that out there. ^^






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Posted by satchmo on Tue Aug 9th at 2:13pm 2005


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would you not have been able to choose pediatrician ?


I would've become a pediatrician if I did not have the top grades. However, the year I applied for residency training, pediatrics was the hottest specialty. The top students in my medical school all went into pediatrics. In fact, we needed a better credential to become a pediatrician than to become a surgeon that year. It was just very competitive.

How "hot" each specialty is goes in cycles. The year I applied, someone could've been a complete idiot and still become an anesthesiologist (doctor who administers drugs to put a patient to sleep during surergy). I knew that it was competitive for pediatrics, and that's why I studied so hard.

With a less stellar grade, I might had end up in a remote, rural town for residency. I might not have made it to UCLA (a nationally renowned hospital) for residency. I might not have gotten the training I need to become a competent physician. And trust me, there are differences in residency programs.

I shall say that I do not regret the choices I made, as I am reaping the rewards of my hard work now.



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Posted by French Toast on Tue Aug 9th at 3:37pm 2005


Oh, now it's the how to become a doctor talk. This thread is going in weird directions.




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Posted by Madedog on Tue Aug 9th at 7:43pm 2005


YES! THAT'S THE POINT <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

Well, I've never considered becoming a doctor though... although being a plastic surgeon really is something, huh <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> Some people already have great presumptions for this. They can take ugly things much easier than "normal" people. For them, rotten.com is everything but disgusting, or.. or.. "ugly" things, let's just say. Or let's take sadomaso, for instance. Most people CANNOT take it, it's too much to them. But surgeons... they can take everything :P They've probably seen things more disgusting than those alone. Or a patologist... except for the smell



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Posted by satchmo on Tue Aug 9th at 8:16pm 2005


One of the first hurdles in medical school was the anatomy lab. We had to dissect decomposing cadavers (well, they're semi-preserved) for hours at a time. It's just like Ravenholm! But it smelled a lot worse (maybe Ravenholm smelled putrid too, but Valve didn't implement the olfactory sense into the Source engine).

Anyone who couldn't take the gore or the smell ended up dropping out of medicine.




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Posted by Nickelplate on Tue Aug 9th at 8:47pm 2005


The smell of death and decay doesn't bother me. Does that make me bad? (I also don't mind being the cause of the smell)




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Posted by WarloK on Tue Aug 9th at 11:45pm 2005


I'm not fretful about gore and rotting flesh smell, but i get scared s**tless by horror movies.
I wasn't afraid to hack up a sheeps lung school but then i was terrified when my cousin forced me to watch 28 Days Later.
Bloody good film though...




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Posted by rival on Wed Aug 10th at 1:18am 2005


yeah i solved these problems by personal desensitization.

and being a doctor...i want to be a doctor in theoretical sciences.

many think that is a strange profession choice but what the hell!




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Posted by Nickelplate on Wed Aug 10th at 2:34am 2005


Okay, I've noticed we're not talkin' 'bout titties anymore, so if you could post your preferences, that'd be great.




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Posted by French Toast on Wed Aug 10th at 2:52am 2005


I like booobs.




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Posted by satchmo on Wed Aug 10th at 3:25am 2005


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One of the first hurdles in medical school was the anatomy lab.

After a few days, we've got nicknames for all the cadavers--names like Juicy Lucy, Green Lantern, Smelly Sailor, etc. Quite colorful. And there were a few with prosthetic implants--one with a old-fashioned breast implant (they felt like softballs) and one dude with a penile implant.




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Posted by Nickelplate on Thu Aug 11th at 1:41am 2005


? quoting satchmo
and one dude with a penile implant.

LOL! those things are so funny! "Hold on honey, I gotta pump up my weener!" for those of you who don't know, remember those shoes that had a lil air pump in the tongue? It's like one of those in your sack that pumps up your p33nz0r. Hahahahahahaha!




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