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New comment by yilomap in "The darker side of being a doctor"

yilomap — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:50:45 +0000

I am willing. I just need someone to fund med school for me. If you won't do that you can't be that desperate :)

New comment by yilomap in "The darker side of being a doctor"

yilomap — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:48:31 +0000

> You have to be living in a VHCOL to get that, but if you make >$300k TC you are outearning most doctors.

Damn really? Years ago I saw a post of someone asking for advice. They had been offered two positions on in SF at ~$500,000 another in Minnesota at $300,000. Granted they were an anesthesiologist, but a few years back I met a doctor in a bar (lol) and they were telling me you can clear half a million as a GP if you're willing to work in rural states with a big shortage.

New comment by yilomap in "The darker side of being a doctor"

yilomap — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:44:16 +0000

> The debt, crazy years of minimum income, all to let an insurance company admin dictate your every move and while more and more physicians become a labor pool for PE healthcare tracked with metrics fit for warehouse workers (edit: and that’s not OK in a warehouse either). All to earn a decent income but no longer the top of the market. A decent mid-level developer or tech executive makes more than nearly all physicians. No sane top performing talent would dive head first into that mess.

Ok but the writing is on the wall for that mid-level developer. He'll get laid off next week and replaced with an AI agent or dirt cheap offshore team.

The doctor seems like a safer choice now.

New comment by yilomap in "Ask HN: What job boards are good these days?"

yilomap — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:39:55 +0000

LinkedIn is purposely ruining their job search anyway. They're replacing the decent filter based search (with some of the better filtering options I've seen on job boards) with some fuzzy "AI" search feature. Garbage.