The American healthcare system is not the best: we’re working on it. However, the American education system–particularly higher education–has always been world class and a gem to be emulated around the world. People from all over the globe come to this country to be educated. I think that’s why when I dropped out of medical school, I decided to return to graduate school. It just didn’t feel appropriate to leave a degree halfway and not finish an analogous one. I had a vision to fulfill, and that vision more-or-less required me to hold an advanced degree.
In retrospect, was my decision to go into medicine mostly driven by money? Well, I’d say it was number three. The primary reasons being to help people through alleviating suffering and to be in a respectable profession (i.e. to garner some prestige in the eye of the American people). What was the purpose of wanting all of that money? Well, I was planning on having children here and I wanted the best for my kids. I suppose that line of thinking is very common for people to enter medicine. What parents don’t want the best for their children? Thus, this line of reasoning nulls out money as a good enough reason to go into medicine. After all, maybe it doesn’t cost that much in this country to raise good children.
The Ivory Tower 
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