I am a part of a "doctor's wife" forum. While all of us are at different stages in life (clearly, we are right in the beginning) I find a lot of common ground with these women.

Lately, it's the time commitment. Currently, I am chilling at my parents house while Dr. H is doing his preceptorship half way across the country from me. More specifically I left, he stayed put. I grew up very modestly. Money was always tight, quite frankly, it still is. My parents are good, hard working people that will work for a very long time.

The other night Dr. H had called to update on what he had been doing and mentioned a conversation he had with the Doctor her was following. This doctor made $ 400,000 his first year because of the work he put into his job. As a family med doctor, he puts a few extra hours twice a month into the ER to earn extra money raising his income $60,000. I don't even know if my parents make that combined.

My biggest fear about this road, my relationship with my family changes because of the money they assume we have. According to the forum I mentioned before...looks like it's terribly common.


Guess it comes with the territory-money changes everything. I do have my own perspective of course knowing how much money and time we are investing to make a comfortable living; even the lowest salary we still make more than what I grew up with. Many people talk about how in residency you don't make anything, I hope I don't take for granted that especially compared to now, it's still more than most.