The NEJM takes a look the skyrocketing medical school debt of American students, and the numbers are staggering.

When you include undergraduate debt, medical student graduates are saddled with a burden ranging from $145,000 to $180,000, depending on whether they enroll in public or private universities.

There is no other country that can boast that amount of debt for newly minted physicians, which has to be taken into account Read more »