Date: May 30th, 2012 11:30 PM
Author: PrestigeMD123 (preftige)

Enough jokes at your expense.

MD in Radiology/optho/anesthesia/Derm/ent/ER/path/plastics or t6 jd in biglaw.

Who wins?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20796574)

Date: May 30th, 2012 11:30 PM
Author: "jefe"

DO/Foreign MD in internal medicine > HYS JD

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20796589)

Date: May 30th, 2012 11:32 PM
Author: PrestigeMD123 (preftige)

Seriously? IM makes 250-300k as a hospitalist, tops.

What's biglaw pay scale?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20796600)

Date: June 1st, 2012 1:49 AM
Author: commacommadotdotcomma

relying on IM 250-300k as a hospitalist is much safer than relying on biglaw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20803998)

Date: May 31st, 2012 1:18 PM
Author: abcxyz123

titcr, it's obvious

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20799736)

Date: May 30th, 2012 11:49 PM
Author: PrestigeMD123 (preftige)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20796750)

Date: May 31st, 2012 10:24 AM
Author: PrestigeMD123 (preftige)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20798838)

Date: May 31st, 2012 10:26 AM
Author: ''""'''"

Neither. HSW MBA of course.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20798849)

Date: May 31st, 2012 1:29 PM
Author: ClassAction

HY JD is better than any non Harvard, Duke, Hopkins medical school.

Other than that, the shittiest medical schools are more prestigious than the top law schools.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20799795)

Date: May 31st, 2012 1:41 PM
Author: 20 yo enlisted marine w/ 13\" biceps

wrong. Baylor Med>>>>>>>>>>>>shitting all over HY JD

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20799835)

Date: June 1st, 2012 1:54 AM
Author: fucklaw

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20804008)

Date: May 31st, 2012 1:54 PM
Author: jonnyBlaze

shittiest DO program >>> YLS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20799931)

Date: June 1st, 2012 1:55 AM
Author: fucklaw

this is actually true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20804012)

Date: June 1st, 2012 1:14 AM
Author: .,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,...

Sigh. The MD trolling on xoxo is insane. Yes, as a whole, MD>JD, and it's not particularly close. But to say that DO/Caribbean>YLS is fucking ridiculous. Most Caribbean students will never practice medicine period, and those that do will be doing IM or peds or other shitty specialties. And most DO's end up in shitty specialties as well. Now if you want to argue that a ROAD specialist>YLS, then you may have a point, but most ROAD residencies aren't even open to DO's, and the ones that do take DO's are insanely competitive. Overall I think most YLS grads will do better over the course of their lifetimes than most DO's particularly when you consider that a DO spends far more time in school/training and accumulates far more debt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20803834)

Date: June 1st, 2012 1:57 AM
Author: fucklaw

the problem is that lawyers hate their jobs, and plenty of hys law grads just flame out of biglaw so their earnings aren't even higher than doctors'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20804016)

Date: June 1st, 2012 2:20 PM
Author: KyleButler

You clearly don't know many doctors, they bitch about their jobs just as much as lawyers. Grass is always greener I guess.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20806359)

Date: June 1st, 2012 3:01 PM
Author: .,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,...

You also have to consider opportunity costs. Law school is three years. If you go the medical school route, it is a bare minimum of eight years before you get $$$, and some specialties are significantly longer than that. And tuition at medical school is more expensive in most cases, so there is a lot more debt (and typically interest accumulates on the debt during residency, since most residents can't afford to make their loan payments on a resident's salary).

My guess is that when you factor in the years of lost income during school/residency and additional debt, a lawyer who goes biglaw->bigfed/inhouse will do better over the course of their career than a doctor in IM or peds, for example.

And while lawyers may flame out of biglaw, it's typically because they found another job with better quality of life. And not only is the quality of life SPS for many medical specialties, but they don't even have the option of "flaming out." If you are a neurosurgeon that gets sick of 60 hour weeks and being married to your pager, what are you supposed to do? Quit and go work at McDonald's? Sure, a doctor in ROAD specialty will pwn all lawyers except for maybe biglaw partners, but most MD students won't get ROAD even at the very best medical schools. So yeah, on average MD>>JD, but not to the extreme that people take it on xoxo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20806606)

Date: June 1st, 2012 2:51 PM
Author: The Mighty Quinn

"most ROAD residencies aren't even open to DO's"

Pretty sure DOs can do any MD residency as long as they take dem USLMEs (in theory anyways).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20806549)

Date: June 1st, 2012 2:55 PM
Author: ,;.,;.,;.,;.,:,.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;.,;,;.,;.,;.,;

Just like a job at Cravath is open to any Cooley grad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20806566)

Date: June 1st, 2012 2:58 PM
Author: The Mighty Quinn

Hence the parenthetical. DOs also have DO-only residencies as well (but fewer per capita in ROAD specialties).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1960231&forum_id=2#20806584)