$500,000 starting salary for a doctor? My husband's medical salary as an infectious disease specialist, in the late 1980's, averaged a whopping $25.00 an hour. You are not paid to think in medicine, you are paid to do procedures. Surgeons, maybe, make that fee early on. And, we paid more for our daughter's pre-school than he spent on four years at Stanford's medical school. Times have changed.
$500,000 starting salary for a doctor? My husband's medical salary as an infectious disease specialist, in the late 1980's, averaged a whopping $25.00 an hour. You are not paid to think in medicine, you are paid to do procedures. Surgeons, maybe, make that fee early on. And, we paid more for our daughter's pre-school than he spent on four years at Stanford's medical school. Times have changed.