Well it's official

I want to go into orthopedics.

I just spent an hour compiling this data, because let's face it. I am a selfish, greedy, money-grubbing, evil bastard. Getting paid nothing to work like a horse and go cross-eyed this summer, it's rather fun speculating on the amount of money i may or may not make 8 to 10 years from now.

http://blog.gerlad.com/specialties.html

Stupid, gayass blogger won't let me insert this table without it breaking up my layout.

I know this makes me a bad person because I'm supposed to only care about helping people. But from what I've gathered so far, residency is such drain on your soul that there might as well be a big pot of gold at the end of road.

And besides, helping people is overrated. Helping people takes a back seat to what will end up being 190k in debt. goddamn private medical schools.

The only thing i need now is hours worked/week data so that i can multiply that by number of years of residency/fellowships, factor in salary and calculate the optimal bang/buck specialty for the 10 years of post-training medicine I will practice before I retire at the tender age of 45.