Random Statistics

•  In 2004, pediatricians earned an average of $175,000 before taxes.
• Most pediatricians are over thirty years old because of the long years of education (usually 11 years).
• Not many pediatricians are over the age of sixty, since they can comfortably retire by then.
• In 2006, the proportion of women and men in both applications and entrants [to medical school] was about 56% women and 44% men. Why do you think that is? As a result, there are now more women doctors than men.
• Only 43% of applicants get admitted into medical school.
• 60 hour or longer work weeks are common for doctors.
• The average tuition and fees for 2009 entering students at a state medical school was around $40,000.
• At least 90% of allopathic medical students graduate with debt-owing an average of more than $142,000.