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by chimeracoder 2863 days ago
> Now lets please do the same for nurses and social workers who pay exorbitant tuition rates, too, yet get paid peanuts to be on the frontline of health care.

I would not say nurses get paid "peanuts". Not many jobs would let you earn close to $100k in New York City with only a bachelor degree (or in some cases only a two-year associate degree)

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4 year bachelor +

4 year md +

3-7 year residency ( hourly pay is ~ 1/4 a nurses on an hourly basis) +

(optional) 1-4 year fellowship (cardiology, surg-sup specialties like trauma, hand surgery, etc) +

(optional) 4 year PhD (20%+ of rad onc physicians have a PhD too.

Parent was referring to nurses...