[bawana]

Actually, you are wrong. PCPs start at 90-100k salary. If you are quoting gross income before expenses then its about 200k. The overhead of running a physicians office is high. In terms of specialists, it's come down quite a bit. Just check the ads in the back of professional journals. 400k is more like the 70s.

Also you can look at the training of all the recent physicians, - many are from abroad. Same thing that the Silicon valley industry has been doing , hiring foreigners at lower pay. Education for physicians abroad is FREE. Whereas here you have to go to college (>50k a year tuition x 4) AND medical school (60k a year x 4) and then training 3-7 years at low income (40k a year) and crap life style.

[SkyPuncher]

FYI, all of the numbers you listed are close, but not totally accurate. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23733575

That being said, the overall point is correct. There is a HUGE opportunity cost to becoming a physician. People would rather ignore that because it doesn't support their argument. It's much easier to cherry pick point-in-time data without looking at the larger picture.

[tkeAmarktinClss]

Please post a citation

[boublepop]

Perhaps you could post a citation yourself before asking it if others.