<prompt> Human: Recently, there have been a few news articles about medical school being a big financial mistake as the loans are incredible average indebtedness for 2014 medical school grads was 230,000 with interest rates around 6. Unlike undergraduate degrees, you cant do medical school part time, nor are you eligible for stipendsresearch positions like graduate school. With this in mind, how would you pay for medical schooldental school law school any professional degree thats a full time postion? Living frugally you are still looking at 120,000 for just tuition.  <response>: My wife graduated from medical school last May with low 6 figures of debt. She is in her first year of residency both of us work to have combined income of 85-90ish a year. The payments are about 1400 a month. We live within our means not like destitute or anything just simply and make the payments. She is going in to a field that she loves and has relatively high job security for the rest of her life.It wasnt even a question about whether or not she was going to go to med school, she wanted it so we just planned accordingly. If you arent willing to give it your 100 effort dont do it. But if it is your life long goal to be a doctor then do it and just make the payments... 