Brits, do doctors in the UK not make bank like they do in the US?
I was stunned when I read the following in an AW profile of British Olympic marathoner Phil Sesemann who has completed med school and is a junior doctor (which I think is kind of like residency stage in the US).
Previously the 31-year-old had combined athletics with shifts as a junior doctor in Leeds, but his latest marathon PB and Olympic call-up means he is ditching the medical scrubs for good as he focuses on improving his results on the roads even further.
“It’s something I’m not 100 per cent sure I’ll go back to,” he says of his days in the medical profession. “I’m really enjoying my marathon running and I see guys I’ve raced against such as Tadesse Abraham, who ran 2:05:10 last year aged 41, and I think: ‘Why can’t I give this another 10 years of competing?’ I’m doing a bit of coaching and really enjoying that, too.”
In the US, I can't imagine this EVER happening. A) Med school costs so much people aren't willing to view it as a sunk cost. B) Docs make so much, no one is turning that down unless their family is loaded.
