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Old 06-12-2011, 10:58 AM   #313
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Originally Posted by Zevo View Post
The average doctor also makes 200,000+ a year, and that's just a GP. If they specialize, they make 500,000+ a year. That aleviates a lot of stress.
My sister is in the later category, with the outrageous hours, giving up huge chunks of her life due to rotations and on calls, the fact that she is dealing with sick and dying patients all of the time where there is nothing that she can do but watch them go through the process of dying.

She's under a daunting and incredible workload with tremendous stress thrown in.

Put into that the fact that she has to research and publish on top of her normal work and its not much of a life.
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