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This a hundred times! The shortage is real and urgent. My gf, who is in her second year of a low-tier residency program, received many offers from various hospitals promising her $300K/year to work for them. This is well known among residents that once you survive residency (which is not a high bar to begin with), you will make at least $250K/year.

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From the the people I know and know about, getting into medical school is a very high bar. Getting through is hard though doable if you could get in and devote your entire life to it. You probably won't get the specialty you want if it's one of the more generally desired ones, but you might.

What is an isn't a high bar is all relative.

Is $250K or 300K really that much compared to the amount of work / time these people need to spend going through formal education? With the additional stress that any decisions they make could adversely impact someone's life?

I mean software developers doing significantly less work can easily make this money while working half as much right? SW Dev working 8hrs a day can make this, whereas a doctor working probable 60-80 hours a week makes the same?

I don´t know in which world you live where SW devs make that... some FAANG developers maybe - 5.000 to 10.000 people total? Compare to over a million doctors in the U.S. only.

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