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Comment author: chaosmosis 02 May 2012 07:59:59PM *  2 points [-]

8 It doesn't appear that this is the case anymore. The supply of lawyers has dramatically increased, and so wages are declining; as well, law is a pretty soul-crushing field from a stress, work-life balance, and satisfaction perspective. If law looks like the best field for you and you're not in it for the money or status, the advice I hear is to specialize in a niche field that'll put food on the table but stay interesting and tolerably demanding.

I was wondering if this is also the case for medical doctors?

Comment author: Vaniver 07 May 2012 03:05:36AM 0 points [-]

Medical schools limit their seats much more effectively than law schools do, I believe, and so the supply of doctors hasn't increased as much as the supply of lawyers. I do hear that medicine is a less attractive field now than it was a decade or two ago, but that seems to be because of technological and legal changes more than economic chances. I am not a doctor or an expert in career choice, though.

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