It's an incredible responsibility to help people live better, longer, and healthier lives. It also happens to be a pretty lucrative field, but you're way too upstanding to even consider the financial perks of studying medicine, right? 

Well, don't take a vow of poverty just yet. You'll have the potential to earn up to $500,000 per year (as a surgeon) and even the low end of this career path starts at over $50,000 per year (source). It's a tough field with difficult hours, but if you do end up practicing medicine, we've just got one question for you: 

Would you mind writing us a letter of recommendation?