Neurosurgeons?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Condraz23
  • 71 comments
  • 3,123 views

Would you become a neurosurgeon if you were accepted to become one?

  • Yes

    Votes: 23 31.5%

  • No

    Votes: 50 68.5%
  • Total voters
    73
no1rc3ur
while you earn all those money
you probably won't haev to time enjoy it
Click to expand...
I suspect most 'smart' Neurosurgeons save enough money to enter semi-retirement by 50, probably just going into work 2-3 times a week as a consultant.
 
Unless they buy themselves a big house and a big german automobile (they can seriously afford an M5), and work some more to buy the children an appartement, too. And a yacht, if they don't get seasick (which, as surgeons, they probably don't ;). All that blood rendered them unvulnerable)
 
It is too much work to get there, and too much to worry about once you reach the point where you are a neurosurgeon. They make money, but it wouldn't lure me in to the job.
 
I prefer to have moderate salary, because I know lots of people who are stinky rich, but their life are just miserable. BTW I hate brain stuff, everytime I open my neuroscience textbook, it makes me puke :yuck:
 
If I had the chance and decided that law or aeronautical engineering wasn't the pathway for me, I'd probably choose to be a neurosurgeon. Apart from the nice amount of money you get for doing such a job, the fundamental principle of it, the 'brain', interests me greatly. Enough so to have me work up to 100 hours a week. But then again, my father works about 100 hours a week, so atleast I could relate to someone.
 
Some people are saying how responsible you are, but I think that even though they should get the job done, there are risks in every surgery and the surgeon cannot be held100% responsible should an accident occur. I personally think it would be a very interesting job, the brain is still being fully discoveried and would be an awesome career. Plus the money is awesome.
 
I voted no. 90 hours a week? you wouldn't have time to buy 42 new games a day.

Money is almost meaningless. You only need to earn enough, and there are easier ways to earn 18K per week. I would suspect anyone studying to be a neurosurgeon who is motivated by the money rather than the job will fail to qualify. Doctors tend to be workaholics.
 
I'd do it, though it'd be likely I'd take up another speciality instead of neurosurgery.
 
GT Pro
Enough so to have me work up to 100 hours a week. But then again, my father works about 100 hours a week, so atleast I could relate to someone.
Click to expand...
That's 20 hours per day in a 5-day workweek, and 14.5 hours per day in a 7-day workweek. You'd want to kill yourself if you worked that much. You would literally have no time to do anything else. What does your dad do?
 
Condraz23
I've just recently found out that neurosurgeons earn over $18,000 a week, or roughly $1,000,000 a year.
Click to expand...
Let's not forget that it probably cost the average neurosurgeon $300,000 to get his education. He's paying that off.

Then, in the US, taxes take about $400,000 of that $1mil every year. That leaves $600,000.

Malpractice and Liability insurance probably cost him $250,000 a year. So now we're down to $350,000 a year in actual spending money.

No, I wouldn't do it for that.
 
I'm a nurse manager of a dialysis clinic and the responsibilities are enormous.
I have much less time of my own now as a result of my job.

Docs period have very little of their own time to have "fun". I'm simply not that driven, nor do I want to miss out on having family time, and family fun.
Neurosurgeons have the added responsbility of knowing that if they sneeze, or lose concentration for even a second they could KILL or seriously disable their patient.
Add to that the fact that most folks that have need of a neurosurgeon have a pretty high mortality. I can tell you that it sucks to have your patients die. Even when they are expected to die, it sucks.
The money is not enough of an incentive.
 
I voted no. Yeah the pay is great but it's way to much responsibility.

I've been blamed for billions of things in my 16 years of life. I don't want a death to be one of those things in the future that I get blamed for.
 
Kylehnat
That's 20 hours per day in a 5-day workweek, and 14.5 hours per day in a 7-day workweek. You'd want to kill yourself if you worked that much. You would literally have no time to do anything else. What does your dad do?
Click to expand...

Yes, he works about 12-14 hours per day, 7 hours a week. He's the owner of two engineering-based companies, and has recently had to work his ass off to get another one off the ground. It's not likely to change for awhile, either, as he is also moving a lot of his work into a revamped factory.

Nonetheless, $1,000,000 a year would be nice (good enough to live a decent lifestyle) and I think it's worth the responsibility.
 
If i was "accepted to become one"? I assume that would only come after years of med school and neurosurgical study. If I had done all of that in order to become a neurosurgeon, of course I would.

I strongly doubt anyone goes into it for the money.
 
GT Pro
Nonetheless, $1,000,000 a year would be nice (good enough to live a decent lifestyle) and I think it's worth the responsibility.
Click to expand...
You can live a decent life on 1/20th of that, and not have to work weekends.
 
Keef
I'd do it for a year.

Then I'd quit, invest, and never work ever again.
Click to expand...

There wouldn't be anything to invest after just one year. You would have just paid off your car, student loans, done your taxes and made some mortgage payments.

Bye money.

Try again next year.

Also, what kind of crappy life are you planning on living with only $1,000,000 to spend (in your entire life)?
 
You have to keep in mind what Duke said. If you earn $1,000,000, the government takes about half of that, and then you have personal expenses and insurance for your practice. One year of work will only net you $300,000-$400,000. That's tough to spin into a life-sustaining investment.
 
I don't like medicine no amount of money in the this world would change that , I will always choose things that I enjoy :)
 
I voted no for 2 reasons...

1. I couldn't live with myself if I accidentally killed someone operating on them... (although yes in normal everyday life you could potentially accidentally kill someone)...

2. Its not really my passion, yes there are jobs you do to get by but something like that takes real commitment and its just not my area...

Amen to all the people who do do it though!

Robin
 
Kylehnat
You can live a decent life on 1/20th of that, and not have to work weekends.
Click to expand...

The thought of having to work on weekends if necessary doesn't really bother me that much. Also, living life on just $50,000 would be tough-going. I want to be financially able to travel and explore every continent, experience the joys of cruising the seas in my own private, quiet yacht, build my own dream house and feel the pure exhilaration of starting up an exotic italian Ferrari in my garage. I may have different views to how important money is, but I sure know mine.
 

Latest Posts

Back