[erwanl]

Well, the things is that if you include resident medecine studies are really long. So: * You'd have to average for a life time of work * You need to make sure you subtract the cost of studies (although in US pretty much any study costs a ridiculous amount of money) * You may also want to take into account that you start making a good salary late in your life, at a time you'd need some (like when you want to buy your first house)

Anyway, I don't know about US but in France doctors are not that bad. They have pretty competitive studies and they also have a few resident years, but they don't have to pay for study (as for any student) and pretty soon they get their well paid job. They also don't have as many stupid trials as in US.