Is medicine worth doing? when the IT industry is blooming?

Hi im a medical student, and i ask my self why i bother doing medicine. After seeing the dirt and grit it can become sometimes i envy my friends in the IT industry doing software development. My friends who graduated after 3 years with a Bsc in computing science are now making huge bucks working on projects and they get to have an easy life style. Although i love the science of medicine and find it facinating i think it takes too long to become a specialist and the overall salary is not... Is medicine worth doing? when the IT industry is blooming?
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