Disturbing question

[ILikePath]

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Hey all!

I'm currently on my Path rotation and loving every minute of it!
Anyway, I was discussing the future of Path with a fellow student and he brought up an interesting point, something that I haven't even thought of. He was asking why you need an MD to sign out a case when a PhD can very well do it? He then went on about starting a company full of PhDs and charging half price for reading slides. Any thoughts on this?

 

[Gut Shot]

I'm currently on my Path rotation and loving every minute of it! Anyway, I was discussing the future of Path with a fellow student and he brought up an interesting point, something that I haven't even thought of. He was asking why you need an MD to sign out a case when a PhD can very well do it? He then went on about starting a company full of PhDs and charging half price for reading slides. Any thoughts on this?

To become competent to sign out cases one has to do a residency. To do a residency one has to have an MD. To bill for cases (aka make money at this enterprise) one has to be a licensed MD. Your classmate's scheme wouldn't even get out of the starting blocks before suffering a fatal GSW to the occipitum.

 

[yaah]

You can read slides with a high school diploma too, just don't expect anyone to pay the bills you send out and anyone to credential you.

 

[torero]

Hey all!

I'm currently on my Path rotation and loving every minute of it!
Anyway, I was discussing the future of Path with a fellow student and he brought up an interesting point, something that I haven't even thought of. He was asking why you need an MD to sign out a case when a PhD can very well do it? He then went on about starting a company full of PhDs and charging half price for reading slides. Any thoughts on this?

Your fellow student (does he have an MBA?) has a decent idea, but I think I might have come up with a better one, though:
I’m starting a company full of MBA’s from Cuba. I’ll teach them English, and groom them to be CEO’s for all the Fortune 500 companies. I’ll bill top dollar for their work, pay them by the hour, and pocket the difference.

 

[LADoc00]

Hey all!

I'm currently on my Path rotation and loving every minute of it!
Anyway, I was discussing the future of Path with a fellow student and he brought up an interesting point, something that I haven't even thought of. He was asking why you need an MD to sign out a case when a PhD can very well do it? He then went on about starting a company full of PhDs and charging half price for reading slides. Any thoughts on this?

Huh? A PhD can sign out surg path? Hahahahaha. Let me get my breath. Hahahahahaahahaha....okay, youre an idiot.

Why do you think that? Because some PhD taught you Pathology in your pre-clin years??

Okay..I was in one of the better Pathology PhD programs in the country and can set the record straight, those graduates are no way competent enough to even sign out a wart from my ASS.

A PhD degree is about Pathobiology NOT Diagnostics, theory not clinical practice. Your instruction is about the experimental investigation of disease etiology.

If you spent the time to teach a PhD all the things they would need to sign out Surgical Pathology, then you might as well have sent them to medical school and residency.

By your same logic, I could form a PhD company to do ANYTHING. Simple Orthopedic procedures??? A PhD! Simple Gas cases?? A PhD! How bout family med? A B.S./B.A. will suffice.

In conclusion, Im amused by your inquiry. Good day.