- A CS student graduates around age 24.
- A physician finishes their formation around age 30 or more.
How is this important?
- 6+ more years of substantial pay / debt
- No real salaries for 6+ years
- Around 6+ years of fewer professional experience as your target occupation.
By the time the physician is done with all the preparation, the CS student may be already a senior engineer and may have vested stock options.
If we add up those things, we could say that's equivalent to not having a salary for like 10 years, relative to the CS guy.
What is the incentive for going through all that? higher pay.