We live in a society

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They are also paid because they sacrifice their entire youth by dedicating it to medicine.

  • You need straight A's in college (sacrifice 18-23)
  • Dedication to med school (sacrifice 23-27)
  • Tortured abuse of residency for $40K/year and +80 hours of work/week (sacrifice 27- 29/31)
  • Fellowship (optional) not so bad, but $45K/yr when you could make more

When all is said and done they've committed an addtional 8-12 continuous years to medicine before they start making money.
On top of that they have about $250,000 in debt (unless their parents have that kind of money collecting dust).

This is not a trivial sacrifice.