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I'm not trying to tell you doctors are poor.  Or even have average salaries.  What I said was a great many of them can't make the same money they used to, and the payoff isn't there relative to what's demanded of them.  You need to focus on the "what's demanded of them" as much as the "payoff" part.  

Dermatologists make bank down here.

Father daughter combo in an office here.

Dad has 1.2 mil valuation home, Daughter 600K.  Both live on Thunderbird Drive!  lol

I don't visit much with my fraternity brothers about their finances, but the surgeon has the 1.5 M yacht anchored off his backyard in Gulf Breeze, and another that opened up in East Central Kansas is donating hundreds of thousands--but, he didn't have any children to siphon off the potential savings, and his wife is a veterinarian.

Dermatologists make bank down here.

The real money goes to the specialists... Such as a surgeon or a dermatologist brought up here. 

Not that there's no money in general practice, of course, but I think that's where it gets a lot closer to what @MikeDeTiger is talking about. By the time you've gotten through school, medical school, and residency, you're hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. You're making "great money", it takes a long time to climb out of that hole--especially since you're almost pushing 30 before you get to flip that switch. 

If you are a specialist, you'll climb out a lot more quickly.