great video, love the bit about how students and residents can feel empowered to find other means of earning income!

Really good explanation. This would actually be really useful for some healthcare startups to understand.

Awesome video Abs, really interesting seeing how it all works in the US!

Show your work is one of my favorites too love that

I agree that residency is hard and that long hours are necessary to gain all of the knowledge required to practice independently. An internal medicine physician must see so and so many cases of heart failure or pneumonia to know how to both recognize and treat each. The same goes for any physician and the diagnoses within their respective field. The difficult part, as you stated, is that an average of 63,000 dollars per year is not enough to live off of WHILE paying off loans for the majority. I believe that this perpetuates the problem in ways additional to the lack of primary care physicians (as you stated). As a second-year student, I am not alone when I speak of classmates that have not had to take out a single dollar in loans because their parents have paid for their education thus far. Those who feel 63,000 is sufficient are often those who did not have to take out loans that accrue interest daily. This entire issue prevents those from lower and middle backgrounds from more readily pursuing medicine. I understand that the funding comes from the US government, but I find it hard to believe that 10 billion dollars annually is all that we can afford. Our military shells out around 780 billion dollars to protect its citizens. I find the fact that it cannot further graduate medical education via increased pay quite unethical if those same ethics justify the far greater military protection. Medical ethics highlights the necessity to provide justice - fairness in medicine. General ethics also routinely bolsters the argument that we must sacrifice the few to save the many as noted by the famous trolley problem. Would it not be in our best interest to sacrifice additional spending to save and provide care to more? Our government has a duty to protect us, why would the verb not carry over to include reinforced healthcare on all angles? The final point that I do not believe to be fair is resident salary in comparison to midlevel providers. You mentioned is a previous video that 77 percent of residents feel the same. I am not advocating for decreased midlevel pay but certainly believe an individual holding a doctorate in medicine that is currently treating patients and working often twice the number of hours (as midlevel providers) should receive the same salary.

yooo abhiiii im liking this series!

What's the average salary of doctors in new York after residency?????