Undoubtedly, never did I imply otherwise! My statement still stands. Calculus-based physics provides a deeper and more "real" understanding of the physical world. You can still be a great physician without this understanding.
Well Gauss, great mathematician, had all the pieces of puzzle to get to Maxwell equations. But missed simple concept that charge need to be conserved. Maxwell implemented that on existing equations, one of them being Guass's law, and unified Electricity and Magnetism in equations immortalized as Maxwell equations. Faraday never wrote an equation but had much deeper understanding of Physics, and even Maxwell thought so.
As Feynman put it, if you can't explain it in simple English, or whatever your language is, you haven't got to the deeper level of nature. Einstein knew nothing about Reiman geometry. His friend did most of the derivations using tensor calculus.
However, complicated mathematics makes implementation of deep physical ideas easier. Einstein would have definately benifited from knowing tensor calculus, though he might have been distracted as well. Einstien gave a seminar on his General Theory of Relativity, and Hilbert constructed that theory with different approach over a weekend, and even published his version a day before Einstien.
If you understand calculus it is easier to implment physical ideas in calculations though you have to spend time understaning calculus. You may actually understand physics at deeper level using algebraic approach. Beyond understanding that slope is a derivative and integral is area under the curve there is not much to be learnt in calculus; after that its mostly rules for simplify the practice. Once you learn that it is all algebra, and that is the way Archemedes did it.
You can learn all the physics through algebra. Calculus is just a better language- Gibbs said mathematics is a language- to present the results. Vector Calculus may be still better. There was actualy a student, a pre-med, who repeated algebra based physics since he got a B in calculus based course. Well he was last to get A-; may be just because he repeated the material but not because it was easy.
Don't go to Calculus based becuase it will teach you any thing deeper.
If you know or want to know calculus that is fine. It certainly won't help in MCAT; for MCAT just do a lot of problems and understand how to apply some shortcuts such as dimensional analysis and conservation laws instead of doing too much algebra.
