Is this from the scribe who talked about how he would correct the doctors all the time, and would present to them in the same way a medical student shadowing could? His entire post was one big cringe, if I'm recognizing this from the right source.
Dude, DO is optometry school... Duh... so... DO school then?
*runs away*
So this is the appropriate thread for this I believe. So I am in Biochemistry this semester, which I never took for my undergrad and I start talking to this young guy in the class who's a junior and wants to go PA.
Guy: Man, no offense to MD's, but I would rather goto an Naturopathic Doctor
Me: You know your gonna work under MD's right?
Guy: Yeah but I am gonna be more natural focused and more holistic
Me:
Same guy Later: Dude your a nurse, I didn't know that, can you answer something for me?
Me: sure
Guy: So I saw a DO in the hospital and I am not sure why he was there I thought DOs can't work in hospitals
Me: DO's are fully licensed physicians they can do any specialty a MD can.
Guy: Are you serious? I thought they were all about alternative medicine....
A short time later
Premed #2: Yeah DO can't be surgeons, the orthopaedic surgeon I shadowed with said so.
Me: He was joking, I work with DO surgeons everyday
Premed #2: What! DO's can do surgery!?! Are you sure?
Me: Yes
Premed #2: Well I will just go MD to be sure...
Me: thinking:enjoy the Caribbean.
And last but not least, a 'accepted' premed student (condensed version):
Me: So what have you been upto since I last saw you
Premed #3: I got into medical school
Me: Congratulations man, which one?
Premed #3: Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine
Me:So what made you decide to go ND?
Premed #3: I am really into preventative medicine and MD's just treat the symptom not the disease.
Me: You don't seriously believe that
Premed #3: Its true, thats why they (MD's) shoot down alternative treatments. ND's base their care on each pt's need that's why they don't always work.
Me: Maybe it doesn't work cause it doesn't work. Thats why MD's (and DO's) do evidence based care. If the naturopathic way worked, you could prove it was evidence based, and than MD's would use it.
Premed #3: Well that's cause they focus on treating symptoms, you can't always show that things work.....
Me: Yeah, no.
Same guy, now he wants to goto actual medical school
Premed #3 talking to other students excitedly: Yeah I looked it up and Lecoms average MCAT is a 24!
Me: Yeah that's not true
Premed #3: No it really is!
Me: *No comment*
Week later:
Premed #3 now has a First Aid Step 1 USMLE book
Me: Getting alittle ahead of yourself there partner?
Premed #3: No, this thing will be great prep for the MCAT
Me: Have you taken a practice MCAT exam yet?
Premed #3: No, I am saving it for later, but I am gonna study with this.
Me:
How scholarly of you
He can thank me laterThe coat's not the worst part. He's wearing it over a hoodie like a total d0uche.
"Ahh, never mind"
Wearing your scrubs out in public after work is just flat out gross lol, especially if you're a CNA. You're bound to get some bodily fluids on them or be around MRSA or C. diff patients. Don't spread that shiz around to everyone else
I've been guilty of this once...
I remember seeing that. I literally can't even.
It just speaks to his cluelessness.
Am I the only find who find it annoying when my friends don't understand how hard it is to get into med school?
One of my friends who is almost failing her business major asked me why I am not attending my own alma mater's med school (a very highly ranked med school), and she said it in a way that made it sound like she thinks it's a piece of cake. I said I am not going to apply because I don't think I am competitive enough. She said :"Oh I thought people just automatically get into med school they graduate from the school's premed major."
Another friend: She asked me what I will do if I don't get in this year, I told her I will apply to DO next year and that DO is another medical degree that allows you to be a doctor but it is slightly easier to get in. She asked: "Oh like a MA?" No sweety, not like a MA.
Another friend: She is from a country that has its doctor program as an undergrad where you apply directly from high school. She asked me: "If you get into medical school, do you have to start from first year like all the other undergrads?"
Another friend: We were in a conversation and I happen to mention that I had a full-time summer job once. She was like "OMG then you are going to get into medical school for sure! It's really hard to find a full-time job in the summer!"
Another friend: She asked me which med school I want to go to, and I said whichever one that will take me. She looked shocked and said "But why would you want to go to say *insert here random lower-tier college that doesn't have a med school* for medical school?.
Another friend of mine kept on telling everyone she is studying medicine when she is in a Masters of Healthcare Technology program. No she is not trying to deceive people. She just genuinely thinks that is equivalent to a MD. And that she can get a job as a doctor when she graduates.
I need better friends
