[nilkn]

Indeed, the salaries in medicine can be so absurdly high that $250k of debt is truly not as much as it sounds.

If a dermatologist starts at $234k, then you could easily pay back $100k/year and still have a very comfortable chunk of change left over. And that's ignoring salary increases. In a few years, you'll be debt free making $350k. And you could see numbers of that magnitude even in cheaper rural areas where you'll live like a king.

And I completely agree with you on job security as well. Once you start practicing, you're pretty much made for life.