It’s no secret that the financial burden is weighing heavily on the minds of medical students and residents:
Kaufman said that physician pay, while good compared with other professions, varies by regions. He recently saw a job posting in the Midwest that would double his salary. Medical students with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt gravitate toward places like that in order to survive. The physician climate in the region is such that reimbursements are routinely low for care being provided and getting ahead is not as easy as it used to be, said Kaufman.
