Mr DeVoretz calculates that the rate of return for a doctor who gets an education at a first-rate Canadian university and then goes to work in the United States is around 45% on the direct costs of his or her education.

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Profiles that go on longer than that tend to be by an accomplished woman with lots of education and some kind of license (doctor, lawyer) to brag about, or by a not-so-attractive woman who seems horribly lonely and desperate to date.

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"All they hear is 'doctor got sued, '" says Susan LeGrand, director of education at the Harry R.

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