Medical Students Assume Huge Debt to Become Physicians

The thought of amassing a half-million dollars in medical school debt, in some cases, is steering some of the best and brightest aspiring physicians to choose certain specialties over others, altering their life plans, or discouraging them from going into medicine altogether. An October Texas Medicine magazine article covering the cost of medical education reports staggering student debt is shaping how new physicians approach medicine.
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