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lnn2 said:
I have a M.S degree. If I ever get married, I would prefer my wife to call me Master.XXX instead of Dr.XXX. 😀
That's a cool culture! If my wife disrespects me then I could use that example! "woman, you better give me some respect! wives call their husbands Dr in some culture, you're lucky that I'm letting you call me by first name only!" 😀
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part of what i said above is also political. they call their husbands Dr. XXX in public to bring up their own status among other women; almost showing off. "i was so good that i married a doctor!!" At home, however, its another story.
 
Zack, you are totally on the money. Bravo.
 
thanks to those of you with helpful advice. also it's interesting that in europe ph.d's/lawyers are revered while in usa physicians. might make for an interesting discussion about culture. but i think i just have lots of personal problems right now. and i dont care about prestige tonight.
 
Don't stress. Having personal problems is what being young is all about.
 
Dental Mom said:
I met this mom at the store the other day. Her introduction was "my husband is a pediatric cardiologist at so & so hospital in Miami" In my head I was like >what a little woman!< I only replied saying: Oh, poor guy! He has to drive all the way there? 😱 1 1/2 hrs each way.....

Geeeezzzzz, some people 😱
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You could say something like:
You: would you and your cardiologist husband like to come with us to Jeb's mansion for a BBQ this weekend?
The mom: who's Jeb?
You (act casually): Oh, Jeb Bush, you know, THE Governor of FL. yes, he's my little brother. I used to wipe the snot off his nose when he was a kid! Oh, I'll have my limo driver pick up you up, say, 9ish?! 😀
 
ProZackMI said:
University of Michigan, B.A. in Government/Political Science, 1993
Medical College of Ohio, M.S., Biomedical Sciences, 1994
Michigan State University College of Human Med., M.D., 1998
Internal Medicine Residency, Sparrow & William Beaumont Hospitals, MI
Psychiatric Residency, University of Michigan Med. Center
Michigan State University College of Law, J.D., 2005
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All that training sounds painful. Especially that part in law school when they remove your spine.
 
Not as bad as the part where they swap your heart out for that of a concentration camp guard.....
 
though this is off topic, and i adhere to that i am no longer interested in this topic. i must make another confession. my parents are from ussr and im not as ignorant as i seem. i just wanted to say that in ussr, professors were more respected than doctors, because they made similar wages but they got to travel to conferences and had 3months vacations, but most important of all, all their friends were also professors. but doctors might make more money because people would give them gifts as a 'thank you', most people would give a dr something like a set of china after a successful operation, but if the patient were some big shot(politician), he could give the dr or his friend or his family an apartment. but in the end, im full of it, there really werent any differences between classes. it was politician>>>>everybody else

and i just started reading books for entertainment, so i am in fact rather ignorant about all this. but i always thought that in europe, most scientists were borne very rich. they would do science for charity. i.e. set up a lab in his estate at his own expense and work for himself... of course he might take on a student, but the student would also have to be of the noble stock. the only thing that poor people could hope for is to work as dept store managers and then buy their own gas station or fishing trawler, they didnt care about education. and i think in europe, even today scientists make very little. hence, they're either very impractical or they just have a trust fund to support themselves. doctors even in europe make low 6figure salaries, which is not so bad.

as for me, i am just fine to go to dental school, im sure it's possible to go into academia as much as from a medschool, if i choose to do so. but right now i'll try to get the most out of my ugrad, because chances are, i wont be reading anything more advanced throughout my career than what ive doing in ugrad.
 
pip00 said:
i just wanted to say that in ussr, professors were more respected than doctors.
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I have heard this before from Asian students who revealed that PhD's in their home countries were treated akin to medical doctors and dentists for that matter. We have had this discussion before on SDN, and it seems to be a serious hang up for some people. Presitgue is really a superfluous endeavour that will never pay consistent dividends both monetary or personal. If you don't really want to do something or are just following along what you think others want you to do, then you are setting yourself up for disaster later in life.

Many child television stars find these things out the hard way, when their once famous existences have been reduced to filler for E television network. Choose a profession based on who you are and what you think is important, not on what others think. Public opinion is a very fickle thing. Just ask Manny Ramirez, hated one day and loved the next. Take care and GOD bless.
 
I love this thread, gets better every time.
 
drhobie7 said:
Dental school is so brutal that unless you are truly motivated you will drop out, fail, or commit hari kari.
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Hallow Fellow Bruin! So is this what you think about UCLA SOD?

Eeeeks. I'll bring a knife with me in September and learn how to hari kari. =)
 
pip00 said:
thanks to those of you with helpful advice. also it's interesting that in europe ph.d's/lawyers are revered while in usa physicians. might make for an interesting discussion about culture. but i think i just have lots of personal problems right now. and i dont care about prestige tonight.
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Hey Pip! As much as all the people that joked about you on this forum, and even I kind of did in a previous post, however I do compliment you on your bravery to make such a post. Your post is honest, and I appreciate that.

I don't know why so many people responded negatively toward you. As dentist/pre-dentist, most of us have experience that med school or dent school issue. Perhaps your op happen to press a button for most of us on this forum.

I will say this. For all the people who made fun of you and denigrated you in meaningless rude ways, they ought to examine where their comments are coming from.

So, Pip, thanks for posting. I do hope you make more posts like this. And you know what, I bet the moderators don't find you a bit offensive. So keep up those honest heartfelt posts.

For any of you out there that is reading this and may wonder if I'm being sarcastic; let me answer that question now, and say that I'm not being sarcastic.
 
toofache32 said:
I think this is true. The first week of dental school half the class wanted to go into ortho. After 4 years, 6 people applied and 3 got in. Being a gunner is an endurance race. You have to keep charging ahead and simply wait for everyone else to tire out. This is harder than it sounds.
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I think the race is really until Step 1 is done, and then the rest is just a slow jog to the finish line.
 
jk5177 said:
Hallow Fellow Bruin! So is this what you think about UCLA SOD?

Eeeeks. I'll bring a knife with me in September and learn how to hari kari. =)
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The #1 ranked student in the UCLA class of 2007 just left the school and transferred to Arizona. According to him it IS brutal. Bring that knife with you.
 
aphistis said:
Step 1? Are you planning to take the USMLE during dental school? 😉
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I can't remember what the first NBDE is called. I'm using Step 1 because I was using that as a studying resource.

It's Part 1.
 
ItsGavinC said:
The #1 ranked student in the UCLA class of 2007 just left the school and transferred to Arizona. According to him it IS brutal. Bring that knife with you.
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I know Wes, he's a great guy and very smart, but I doubt he was #1 in our class. We've got several people in my class that are just plain brilliant. He had other reasons for transferring, which were likely personal and therefore not topics of discussion with his new classmates. I hope he has a great time at AZ, but to think that transferring to another dental school will avoid the challenges that are part of dental school is naive. Any school that isn't challenging makes me question what the students are actually learning. I'll miss Wes.
 
jay228 said:
pip00: i wanna slap you with my dick...

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I get put on probation for calling someone a d-bag and this guy says this?

Wow, double standards = fun.

I feel like i'm in dental school.
 
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