re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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What's your experience with it?

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I have a long time friend who is graduate from Penn's med school. This is basically what he has told me over the years, so just a personal anecdote obviously.

You're taking on a ton of debt but default rates for med students are lower than most other disciplines. Default rates tend to go down with a higher level of education attained. So a doctor is virtually guaranteed to pay back their debt as long as they don't go into some low paying or super competitive specialty field.

Nursing is one of the best vehicles for the moderately intelligent to create wealth. Some of them do actually bust their arse at work though.

Medical device sales can be essentially free money if you get the right clients. Take them to eat and play golf with them occasionally and just keep your phone on you.

I will acknowledge that since he did go to a prestigious school that his experience is probably not exact reality for your average doctor because he is around a "higher tier" of doctor.

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I have a long time friend who is graduate from Penn's med school. This is basically what he has told me over the years, so just a personal anecdote obviously

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Oh my god this is amazing for reasons you'll never understand.

Firstly, this doesn't address risk at all. Or thinks of risk only in a financial sense. Given the failure rates and board passage rates, the risk of failure is high because there are numerous washout phases. Not only that, in certain settings, the actual mental work is difficult. In any treatment approach and in any specialty, you have to weigh risk, especially given the litegous nature patients and their families. One reason physician pay remains high is that hospitals and hospital administrators remain risk-adverse to hilarious degrees.

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I will acknowledge that since he did go to a prestigious school that his experience is probably not exact reality for your average doctor because he is around a "higher tier" of doctor

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Again, you are being so unintentially hilarious and you'll never understand why. Academic medicine is cutthroat in its own way, but generally it has a different type of 'rigor' than community medicine. The pay is generally lower in academic settings, but I've trained at at a very good institution, and I can tell you the difference between people at this level is minute. There is no 'tier' of doctors when you are practicing unless you are publishing a lot or are just prolific in general. Which is why you see a wide variety of educational backgrounds on medical school faculty. That's the express point of the standardization of medical education. Given how many third-party sources are used in preclinical and clinical education, what schools mostly provide is opportunities for letters of recommendation and different rotation opportunities. A massive amount of medical education is straight up outsourced.

The board exams, before they went pass/fail, used to be the great equalizer in terms of identifying talent, and hopefully we will go back to a graded system. But there is plenty of risk involved. And the skills you gain over time, because of the way graduate medical education is designed, ensures that you will have a salary floor, but won't ensure you can reach the top percentages of salary unless you also have an entrepreneurial mind and ability. It's exceedingly hard to be both a good physician and run a business, especially in primary care, from what I've seen and been told.

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Reports of S-300 systems being placed between homes in residential neighborhoods in Sevastopol

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I said something to this effect back when pictures of Ukraine placing air defense in Kyiv. Where can you place air defenses in a city that wouldn't impact civilians? It's kind of a catch 22, you need to protect the city but in order to do so you have to put the systems in residential areas.

Russia's full-scale invasion has destroyed at least 210,000 buildings in Ukraine, NYT analysis reveals

by Chris York and The Kyiv Independent news desk June 4, 2024 9:20 PM

At least 210,000 buildings in Ukraine have been destroyed since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, an analysis published on June 4 by The New York Times (NYT) has found.

An examination of satellite data reveals the destruction includes 106 hospitals, 109 churches, temples, mosques and monasteries and 708 schools, colleges and universities.

"The scale is hard to comprehend," the NYT writes in its interactive report. "More buildings have been destroyed in Ukraine than if every building in Manhattan were to be leveled four times over."

The authors note the numbers are "conservative" and don't include Crimea and parts of western Ukraine.

and the extensive nuke shelter complex for him and his favorite Oligarchs that's underneath it...

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So is it MD or PE?

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how are either of those low risk?

you literally put your job status on the line every single day and a single mistake could cost you your license and both of those occupations require extremely difficult degrees and are extremely difficult test to pass and require years of training to earn the title.

It is reported that Ukraine is starting to use a number of ground combat drones. War and technology is evolving at a break neck pace.

This is a Ukraine channel showing several examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOcBvcy8_Ro

Humanity is rapidly moving towards a future wherein war can only be won by annihilating the enemy.

This is not a good thing.

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wherein war can only be won by annihilating the enemy.

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Pretty sure that’s been the way a war has been won for a long arse time.