[virtueman]

They are tradeoffs certainly, those benefits generally come with less pay.

I do agree they are in the minority. It is possible if you own your own practice. But also attainable by most physicians willing to work locums, essentially being a substitute doctor. You can take gaps between these locums contracts to travel.

[atticuz]

As a software engineer in a great job at an exciting company, I think programming is like magic but I've never completely felt at home doing it.

I still have this have this urge to go be a doctor, despite investing 7 years of my life into computer science. Thanks virtueman for your input here, it really summarizes the biggest pros of medicine.

It's apparent that you've thought deeply about this virtueman, what's your relationship to medicine?