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re: Spinoff thread: which is a better profession: pharmacy or MD
Posted on 3/2/15 at 11:01 pm to frankreynolds
Posted on 3/2/15 at 11:01 pm to frankreynolds
i went pharmacy over medicine.... 40 hour work weeks, home every night at a decent time, no on call, 6 figure salary, get to make that salary a lot sooner in life, don't take on as much school debt, etc....
look, i know i'll never make as much as some of my physician friends, and that's just fine.... i just love the precocious and arrogant nature that a good number of physicians have, just because they are an MD.... you can usually tell the ones that are overcompensating..... and as hard as it is to believe for some of them, not every pharmacist wanted to be a doctor, failed out med school and when the pharmacy route, etc.... some CHOOSE to be pharmacist because that's what the frick they wanted to be...
/rant
look, i know i'll never make as much as some of my physician friends, and that's just fine.... i just love the precocious and arrogant nature that a good number of physicians have, just because they are an MD.... you can usually tell the ones that are overcompensating..... and as hard as it is to believe for some of them, not every pharmacist wanted to be a doctor, failed out med school and when the pharmacy route, etc.... some CHOOSE to be pharmacist because that's what the frick they wanted to be...
/rant
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Posted on 3/2/15 at 11:05 pm to Epic Cajun
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Yea, but they are working 13 hour shifts (also weekend and holidays). I'd take a hospital or home health job making ~105k and working 8 hour normal shifts over that.
i make more than $120K, and only work 9 hour shifts... and we now close at 9, so i'm home for 9:15pm, if i work the late shift... and i have every 3rd weekend, and my weekends off are all 3 day weekends....
Posted on 3/2/15 at 11:05 pm to chRxis
I have great respect for pharmacists and other professionals. It was hard going through residency working 80 hours a week at virtually minimum wage while seeing my friends get their engineering degrees and PharmD's and making bank. It's a trade off for sure.
Posted on 3/2/15 at 11:07 pm to pleading the fifth
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It's a trade off for sure.
no doubt... and i have some respect for some physicians out there.... some are good, and many are bad.... but it is a grind in residency.... and that's one of the mitigating factors that made me choose pharmacy over medicine....
Posted on 3/2/15 at 11:08 pm to Hopeful Doc
I was referring specifically to the OP who compared a pharmacists salary to a PCP. I should have written "Then don't do primary care."
Posted on 3/2/15 at 11:13 pm to pleading the fifth
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I was referring specifically to the OP who compared a pharmacists salary to a PCP. I should have written "Then don't do primary care."
This post was edited on 3/2/15 at 11:55 pm
Posted on 3/2/15 at 11:28 pm to chRxis
You work for Walgreens?
I'm just speaking from a close friend's experience in retail pharmacy. He said the horrible hours and weekend/holiday work wasn't worth the extra 10-15k per year.
I'm just speaking from a close friend's experience in retail pharmacy. He said the horrible hours and weekend/holiday work wasn't worth the extra 10-15k per year.
Posted on 3/2/15 at 11:41 pm to Epic Cajun
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You work for Walgreens?
frick. No.
Posted on 3/2/15 at 11:57 pm to frankreynolds
I know someone who did pharmacy school, graduated, then went on into medicine. Said person was moonlighting as a pharmacist during med school and is now making bank (pharma $ x 6 or more) in a high-paying specialty. But you might expect this in someone who can do both.
Posted on 3/2/15 at 11:59 pm to frankreynolds
Depends on the person
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