The Bill

1st Date.

This lady on Insta, photo below, was super excited to go on a date with a doctor.

Then he asked her to split the bill, she was shocked, shrieked in the video “he’s a doctor.”

These are my thoughts:

1. I worked in Chicago’s medical district for 11 years, a decade of those at Medicine. Resident physicians don’t make a lot of money, I used to have the PGY salary chart on my whiteboard behind my desk. Doctors start making good money once they’ve completed residency and are board certified. Medicine specialty can vastly influence salary, pediatrics or family medicine isn’t going to be the same as Orthopaedic Surgery or Cardiology. Don’t assume that just because that man has MD after his name, that he’s making bank.

2. Splitting the bill isn’t indicative of a man’s net worth. I have clients who are millionaires and others who are working class, sometimes the richer the man the stingier he is. Wealth doesn’t always translate into generosity, men with money are often more paranoid than the average Joe. Splitting the bill is indicative of his attraction to you, how much he wants to impress you. If a man is genuinely interested in you, he will pick up the check. It has less to do with his net worth, more with how attracted and interested he is. If that man thinks you’re stunning, amazing, he’s excited about you, he will pick up the check.

You are welcome.

Common sense.

But someone had to say it.

My lane is relationships. I’m a Therapist licensed for clinical work in Illinois. I own my Life Coach, can see clients in any US state and International.

Photo: this girl can’t believe a doctor asked her to split the check