I need as much help, .............................Surgeon!!!!!

Do what you love, and the money will follow. But being a doctor, especially a specialist, does take a tremendous commitment, not just during your education, but after you are actually practicing medicine. The divorce rates for doctors are really high...

Sweetie, what difference does it make which one you want to become? Stop thinking about getting married and do what you think will be best for you. To compare any salaries won't help now. By the time you are done with school, it will have changed already. You can do both studying and working if you keep marrying out of it for a while. TATA.

It takes a great number of years to be a surgeon, yes, but if that is what you truly want, if you want it more than anything in the world, then you better go for it right now. Yes, that means that you may have to put your personal life aside, but again, if you have the grades, the test scores, and the intelligence to be a surgeon, then go for it. Remember though, you are going to have to give up everything to be one.

If this is a serious endeavor, and it sounds like it is, it needs to be a commitment like a marriage and should be entered into with the understanding that you give yourself over to this and not to marriage for many years. You will have to put in a great many hours before you would be given medical creditials and be able to serve as a doctor in any hospital. I would start saving right now, today. I would go with whatever you feel is your calling as far as general or neuro.

first ask ur self. do u want to get married before u had graduated or do u prefer to study first. then the secon question is do u think ur money is enough to pay the neuro than the general one. it is all up to you.

Hi Renhard, my daughter is working her way towards being a doctor. She is in premed now, the mandatory college degree, Biology. But there are other premed courses, too, such as Zoology, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Nutrition, Psychology, etcetera. Usually, these courses take a minimum 4 years. Medical school takes another 4 years. All in all, you will study seriously for the next 8 years. If the tuition is a problem, look for scholarships. Renhard, the medical students study medicine so that they could help save lives. I have not heard of anyone talk about the surgeon's salary. Yours is the first, but then you are not in med school yet.

hji renhard you sound very young and the salary is going to your head but you are forgetting one thing a real doctor, a verygood doctor became a doctor not for money but because he or she wants to help heal people and cure diseases. you are putting these figures first and a doctor who does not really want to help others and heal and cure and is only doing this for money will be a lousy doctor. You will be dealing with human life and a mediocre doctor is a real menace to society as they often kill more people than they help. I would think long and hard as to why besides the money do you want to be a doctor. as you did not sound like you were caring one whit about the health of people at all. I have no salary as I am a retiree living on Social security.you scare me as you do not even talk about the work of caring for ill people only the moneyh and the Lamborghini. that's not really very noble. why not electronics wheree you will not be dealing with human lives?

You sound very ambitious for one so young. I would pursue the field of medicine if that is where your passion is, money is irrelevant. Some jobs are more than occupations they are a way of life and being a doctor is just that. I don’t believe you can plan life out like that, you get married when the right person enters your life and you are ready to make the commitment and that is something you cannot force to happen. I admire your goals and if medicine is the field for you I would go for it as soon as possible, the earlier you start the earlier you will finish...If you don’t have the passion don’t go there, I hear med school is hard work… All the best with whatever you decide.

First of all I wish you the best of luck with the journey that you are going to be making with your life. I had intended to go to medical school from the time that I was a child and was on that track when I was attaining my undergraduate degree. However, as does tend to happen in our lives, I decided that it was more important for me to be a mother and because of that I decided instead that I wanted to go into the nursing field. Now at this point in my life I am staying at home with my wonderful children.

Renhard kiddo, you want to do it? Just do it! Other things will fall in place in due course. I am sure you can marry before 30, and the girl can fend for herself - may be even help you complete your education. :) It is what you like rather than compromise. You compromise and get into another field, it is unlikely that you will shine brilliantly there because you would be constantly aware of what you wanted to do in the first place, and why you couldnt. There are scholarships, grants, and other types of finances. Work hard to get them, instead of feeling sorry for your parents. Even if you cant get those, dont be disheartened, the returns compensate. Student loans are there for financing part of your education. If you need financial advise, take help of a professional - that way you wouldnt go wrong. Dont focus on present salaries. They will increase to accommodate inflation factor. Based on your input it is difficult to define how much you need to complete your education and when you will break even. I need to know how much will be your fees for each of those years, rate of inflation in your states, tax rates applicable to any earnings, how much you could earn without disturbing your education, any books and stuff you need to buy for your education, interest charged by banks on any student loan, how much of student loan you would be eligible for, and from when would you be expected to repay, any grants, education loan from government, etc., that you would be eligible for and when will they be disbursed. I presume the salary you mentioned relates to present day income of these surgeons. If you can provide rest of the data, I think I can project how long it would take you to recover all your expenses, and how much you could save at retirement by following this profession. You could also give me information about another profession you have in mind - how much is present day salary and how much of such expenses would be incurred by you. That way, we could compare and decide which profession is better for you. :)

Here is how I see it; the years are going to go by whether you want them to or not, so whether you opt that route better to be the doctor than have not have done nothing at all. As for whether or not you would marry, before, during or after. Perhaps you find someone with the same mind frame and while being married you both can relate the hard work and persistence it takes. Good luck, and I say go for it. As for how much it cost, once you are done you will make twice over as being in the field I know now a neurosurgery cost begins at minimum 30 grad just for a single procedure.

Yes,it's a difficult problem! i'm 30 and i'm studying.most of the money i needed is my parents'.i feel so bad.what i wanted is to earn more money quickly. you situation is clear to me.believe me and believe youself!

Hello, I understand what you're going through since I've also thought about proceeding with Medicine. But unlike you, I haven't actually thought of a specific field to specialize in. True Medicine takes a lot of time, effort and money but what matters is your dedication to take up the field and your reasons. If it is only for the money then it would be really hard but if it is your passion, sacrifices will bear fruit. You can actually still get married while training to be a doctor, my aunt did that. I'm not sure when (after she graduates or when she had her license or somewhere in between) There are already some medical students who are married. It is also true that being a surgeon, whatever the sub-specialty is, will pay nicely. But no one would get a good pay that fast, but it will be enough more or less to take back the money used for the education. I also think it depends on your skill as a surgeon to make it a success in this career. well, whatever you decide I hope it will be something that will satisfy you and make you happy. Good luck and have a nice day! :)