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Wait, why doesn't it? The argument about resident salaries always invokes the comparison to other workers in the city ("if so and so can do it on his [insert job title] job, why can't you?"). Suddenly McDonald's has nothing to do with it? The point is that even McDonald's recognizes that given the HCOL in Seattle, a higher salary is reasonable.
Actually per-hour wage DOES mean something when making a direct comparison to a McDonald's worker. After 4 years undergrad + 4 years med school + 200K in loans, getting paid $4 more an hour is utterly ridiculous.
I'm not aware of anyone who said "I was just sitting at the table, minding my own business, and BAM, I ended up in Seattle with a white coat." Everyone realizes they had a part in this. That doesn't make up for the poor salaries and they have as much right as everyone else to ask for a raise.
This is a crazy argument. U of WA is not Harvard. Hell, it's not even Wash U. It's U of WA. Someone has to match there. Not everyone can go to North Dakota where they actually make a living wage in residency. That's no reason that residents in these HCOL areas shouldn't ask for a raise, particularly when they see comparable places offering higher salaries and/or subsidized housing.
No, it isn't like that. It's only like that if you twist and bend yourself into a pretzel to make it like that.
R1s: 2019–2020
R1S: CATEGORICAL | MEDICAL SCHOOL |
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Aleksandra Abrahamowicz | U of Washington, 2019 |
Victoria Bachman | U of Washington, 2019 |
Nicolas Baddour | Vanderbilt U, 2019 |
Sarah Baker | Tulane U, 2019 |
Steven Blinka | Medical College of Wisconsin, 2019 |
Paul Bourdillon | Yale School of Medicine, 2019 |
Matthew Cataldo | U of Colorado, 2019 |
Cameron Chalker | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2019 |
Anne Cravero | Dartmouth, 2019 |
Sheela Damle | Virginia Commonwealth U, 2019 |
Jennifer Dunlap | U of Washington, 2019 |
Rasheed Durowoju | Michigan State U, 2019 |
Ermias Ejara | Gondar College of Medicine, 1999 |
Rebecca Ellis | Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, 2019 |
Katherine Fair | U of Pittsburgh, 2019 |
Francisco Farias | U of California, Riverside, 2019 |
Thomas Fitzpatrick | U of Washington, 2019 |
Sarah Gunby | U of Washington, 2019 |
Hannah Hill | U of Michigan, 2019 |
Duncan Hussey | U of Washington, 2019 |
Seth Judson | U of California, Los Angeles, 2019 |
Molly Kelly | Case Western Reserve U, 2019 |
Cooper Kersey | Columbia U, 2019 |
Michael LaBarbera | Case Western Reserve U, 2019 |
Vivian Liu | Harvard Medical School, 2019 |
Linnet Masese | U of Nairobi, 2004 |
Oyinkansola Osobamiro | Brown U, 2019 |
Andrew Pattock | U of Minnesota, 2019 |
Sandeep Prabhu | U of California, San Diego, 2019 |
Joseph Pryor | Oregon Health & Science U, 2019 |
Caleb Schlauderaff | Pacific Northwest U, 2019 |
Kayla Sheridan | Oregon Health & Science U, 2019 |
Ryan Stultz | Case Western Reserve U, 2019 |
Theresa Thai | U of Arizona, 2019 |
Hao Tong | U of Washington, 2019 |
Alison Uyeda | U of California, Davis, 2019 |
Julie Weis | U of Utah, 2019 |
Karly Williams | U of California, Davis, 2019 |
Andrew Wilmington | U of Chicago, 2019 |
James Wykowski | U of Washington, 2019 |
Oh man look at that IM department, full of FMGs and other people who have literally no control on where they match. lol. All of these people had the choice to train at other programs, except maybe that one or two fmgs, but i bet they arent the ones complaining.
Your comparison to mcdonalds workers is worthless because every intern makes less than 18-20 dollars an hour. It is not like medical students dont know what an intern gets paid ? Furthermore total income matters a lot more compared to per hour. I literally gave you the average income of a person in that area. Residents make 10 K more than the average person. not just mcdonalds workers. The mcdonalds worker is making 36k a year vs residents 58.
Your education argument makes even less sense. The mcdonalds worker is never making 200+k per year with their credentials. That IM resident is going to make that much in 3 years.
You are telling me that the average person in Seattle is making less than the resident and the resident cant live? no wonder people think doctors are out of touch with reality of a vast majority of Americans.