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Someone wanted to know how people chose careers, in this case nursing vs physician. While I believe that everyone has a right to justify why they choose a specific field, I don't believe degrading another is a right way to go about helping someone decide which way to go. In response to the OP, and some negative attacks posted by students who aren't in medical school, may never sit in a medical class, SisterMike and Chimichanga argued most cogently why people simply pick careers that are most satisfying to them. They even did a great job to demur the equivocal and fuzzy logic the phalanx of these pre-Meds whose haughty manners were pervasive in an innocent thread of an unsure OP. SDN need more serious thinkers like SisterMike and Chimichanga!
If I were to choose pharmacy, these pre-meds would say that I'll only dispense drugs (despite my years of training and same pre-med/pharm pre req); if I became a physician (D.O.), they'll say that it was easier to get into; (from chimichanga, reworded) "if I became a physician (family practice), an ER wannabe will look down on me;a general surgeon, the wannabe neurosugeon will look down on me!" Now, someone could wander around in a desultory way about a career in nursing based on others' fatuous ideas, or one whose phlegmatic manner and self-motivation, can choose a career based on profound ideals (please refer to a previous thread by me, titled "what are we getting ourselves into?).
I will not bash on anyone, but I could not resist the fact that one of these 'pricks' was a former marine. Without intentionally hurting anyone who are deeply related to events unfolding in Iraq, I'd like to tell this former marine if he found success being a marine? If I signed to be a marine, would I'd be looked down upon by you:FUTURE DOCTOR?
Here is a bit of food for thought I'm sure your insouciance (and your forum entourage) won't have any problem reciprocating not in a bellicose, putrid response, but rather in a cohesive and thoughtful reply albeit a quixotic or picayune one. Furthermore, identify yourselves so that those who chose to pursue careers other than medicine, will have no problems tipping your cantankerous self the lousy buck you deserve (as you flunk out of pre-med)!
Why this morose expression (behind your monitor)?
I can't abide coarseness and stupidity!
To the OP of the part 1 thread: Please search both fields and see what best suits you. Do you desire to be a nurse and then become a physician? Do you ultimately want to be a physician? Can you handle the years of studying? There are many questions ONLY you can answer. You may come to SDN to find other great people who are genuinely interested in helping others but, your values are MOST important. My handle is DO Pharm MD, go figure!
If I were to choose pharmacy, these pre-meds would say that I'll only dispense drugs (despite my years of training and same pre-med/pharm pre req); if I became a physician (D.O.), they'll say that it was easier to get into; (from chimichanga, reworded) "if I became a physician (family practice), an ER wannabe will look down on me;a general surgeon, the wannabe neurosugeon will look down on me!" Now, someone could wander around in a desultory way about a career in nursing based on others' fatuous ideas, or one whose phlegmatic manner and self-motivation, can choose a career based on profound ideals (please refer to a previous thread by me, titled "what are we getting ourselves into?).
I will not bash on anyone, but I could not resist the fact that one of these 'pricks' was a former marine. Without intentionally hurting anyone who are deeply related to events unfolding in Iraq, I'd like to tell this former marine if he found success being a marine? If I signed to be a marine, would I'd be looked down upon by you:FUTURE DOCTOR?
Here is a bit of food for thought I'm sure your insouciance (and your forum entourage) won't have any problem reciprocating not in a bellicose, putrid response, but rather in a cohesive and thoughtful reply albeit a quixotic or picayune one. Furthermore, identify yourselves so that those who chose to pursue careers other than medicine, will have no problems tipping your cantankerous self the lousy buck you deserve (as you flunk out of pre-med)!
Why this morose expression (behind your monitor)?
I can't abide coarseness and stupidity!
To the OP of the part 1 thread: Please search both fields and see what best suits you. Do you desire to be a nurse and then become a physician? Do you ultimately want to be a physician? Can you handle the years of studying? There are many questions ONLY you can answer. You may come to SDN to find other great people who are genuinely interested in helping others but, your values are MOST important. My handle is DO Pharm MD, go figure!