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can someone help me??
all my life i wanted to have a career in business but business is too risky so i switched to healthcare. honestly, this field has no interest to me. i don't like hospitals, blood or sick ppl. but i know i will be guarantee a job unlike in business. ever heard of an unemployed nurse????
anyways, i just need answers because y'all make no sense to me.
what is residency, DO, oos, BE/BC, match, rankings(??)? and what exactly is Med School?? do you go to college than Med School or after high school than Med School? is there any med schools in Texas because i hate snow and i don't want to be paying $1000+ a month up north for rent.
also is radiology a good field to go into?? i hear all you do is study pictures and videos with little patient contact. i don't want them giving me AIDS or something.

short history***
i originally wanted to be a nueropsychiatrist but the pay inequality is ridiculous. so i switched to neurology but then i grew a fancy for neurosurgery but my bf says thats 'brain surgery', and im like, NEVER MIND!!! im smart but not that smart. so i guess neuroradiology could be the best for me. (anything dealing with the brain, spine, neck or mind is ok for me). everyone i know who wants to go into the medical field wants to be a dentist or dermatologists. yeah, i don't want to touch ppls face or teeth, YUCK!!!
 
Assuming you are for real, so to speak, then you shouldn't pursue a career in medicine. You can't avoid a hospital or dying people (step above the sick). Business is not an unstable career. Go talk to your undergrad's career center and then come back.
 
neuropsych6 said:
can someone help me??
all my life i wanted to have a career in business but business is too risky so i switched to healthcare. honestly, this field has no interest to me. i don't like hospitals, blood or sick ppl. but i know i will be guarantee a job unlike in business. ever heard of an unemployed nurse????
anyways, i just need answers because y'all make no sense to me.
what is residency, DO, oos, BE/BC, match, rankings(??)? and what exactly is Med School?? do you go to college than Med School or after high school than Med School? is there any med schools in Texas because i hate snow and i don't want to be paying $1000+ a month up north for rent.
also is radiology a good field to go into?? i hear all you do is study pictures and videos with little patient contact. i don't want them giving me AIDS or something.

short history***
i originally wanted to be a nueropsychiatrist but the pay inequality is ridiculous. so i switched to neurology but then i grew a fancy for neurosurgery but my bf says thats 'brain surgery', and im like, NEVER MIND!!! im smart but not that smart. so i guess neuroradiology could be the best for me. (anything dealing with the brain, spine, neck or mind is ok for me). everyone i know who wants to go into the medical field wants to be a dentist or dermatologists. yeah, i don't want to touch ppls face or teeth, YUCK!!!
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Is this a joke? If so, its freakin hilarious :laugh:
 
ahaydt said:
I heard disimpacting a bowel is a walk in the park compared to dealing with gingivitis.
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Well of course, when have you ever heard of someone's bowel biting you?
 
dd128 said:
Was going to say the same thing 🙂 I mean what could be more icky than touching someone's face or teeth 😛
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i mean seriously!! why would i want to do that???
 
neuropsych6 said:
can someone help me??
all my life i wanted to have a career in business but business is too risky so i switched to healthcare. honestly, this field has no interest to me. i don't like hospitals, blood or sick ppl. but i know i will be guarantee a job unlike in business. ever heard of an unemployed nurse????
anyways, i just need answers because y'all make no sense to me.
what is residency, DO, oos, BE/BC, match, rankings(??)? and what exactly is Med School?? do you go to college than Med School or after high school than Med School? is there any med schools in Texas because i hate snow and i don't want to be paying $1000+ a month up north for rent.
also is radiology a good field to go into?? i hear all you do is study pictures and videos with little patient contact. i don't want them giving me AIDS or something.

short history***
i originally wanted to be a nueropsychiatrist but the pay inequality is ridiculous. so i switched to neurology but then i grew a fancy for neurosurgery but my bf says thats 'brain surgery', and im like, NEVER MIND!!! im smart but not that smart. so i guess neuroradiology could be the best for me. (anything dealing with the brain, spine, neck or mind is ok for me). everyone i know who wants to go into the medical field wants to be a dentist or dermatologists. yeah, i don't want to touch ppls face or teeth, YUCK!!!
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Whoa. If you know that little about healthcare, you should spend some time on the forums here and read up on some informative threads. It would be impossible to completely describe everything, but I'll give you a base as far as medicine goes:

1)You go to 4 years of college like everyone else. During your last year or after college, you apply to medical school. Admissions generally goes off of your GPA and MCAT test scores. Admissions to med school are highly competitive, this year less than half of those who apply will be accepted.
2)You attend medical school for 4 years, and are awarded a medical degree (MD for allopathic school, DO for osteopathic school) upon completion. Then you enter the residency match, where you are matched into a formal training program.
3)Residency, in a specific specialty, is your formal training after you get your medical degree. You are basically an apprentice to the profession, you practice in a hospital setting under the supervision of an attending physician and you help teach medical students. Here you learn most of what you will do during your own practice. It usually lasts 4 years, but can be as high as 7-8.
4) After residency you can do a fellowship, and further learn a subspecialty for 2 or so years.
5) After completing residency you are eligible for full certification to practice independently.

Starting in medical school and throughout all of the rest, you will be tested by the professional boards, and eventually certified to independently practice medicine in the state of your choosing (so long as you pass your board exams). Yeah, it's a very long process and very complicated, so you have to read up on the details yourself (like the difference between allopathic and osteopathic school, how the med school app and the match process work etc). To be honest, medicine is not the field to enter if you just want a job, the training required to care for someone else's life is intense, very long, and very expensive. Med school is amont the most difficult academic programs you can take, and a resident works 80+ hours a week at a minimum and is paid only to live.

Focus now on getting into college, and once there you can meet with a pre-health or pre-med advisor who can help guide you through applying to medical school.
 
ahaydt said:
Assuming you are for real, so to speak, then you shouldn't pursue a career in medicine. You can't avoid a hospital or dying people (step above the sick). Business is not an unstable career. Go talk to your undergrad's career center and then come back.
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is not that i don't want to pursue a career is medicine, I HAVE TOO!! everyone is my family is a nurse or pharmacist and my sister is training to be surgeon in reconstruction. im guessing thats plastic surgery. i don't mind hospitals, but dead ppl. like, gag!!! but i can do it, i mean, im doing great in all my science classes.
but could you answer my questions, thanx. im going to bed.
 
Now I'm 100% certain this thread is a joke. The tough part is figuring out which regular poster is OP...
 
Nothing like a good joke topic to ease our studying aches.
 
Rooter76 said:
Whoa. If you know that little about healthcare, you should spend some time on the forums here and read up on some informative threads. It would be impossible to completely describe everything, but I'll give you a base as far as medicine goes:

1)You go to 4 years of college like everyone else. During your last year or after college, you apply to medical school. Admissions generally goes off of your GPA and MCAT test scores. Admissions to med school are highly competitive, this year less than half of those who apply will be accepted.
2)You attend medical school for 4 years, and are awarded a medical degree (MD for allopathic school, DO for osteopathic school) upon completion. Then you enter the residency match, where you are matched into a formal training program.
3)Residency, in a specific specialty, is your formal training after you get your medical degree. You are basically an apprentice to the profession, you practice in a hospital setting under the supervision of an attending physician and you help teach medical students. Here you learn most of what you will do during your own practice. It usually lasts 4 years, but can be as high as 7-8.
4) After residency you can do a fellowship, and further learn a subspecialty for 2 or so years.

Starting in medical school and throughout all of the rest, you will be tested by the professional boards, and eventually certified to independently practice medicine in the state of your choosing (so long as you pass your board exams). Yeah, it's a very long process and very complicated, so you have to read up on the details yourself (like the difference between allopathic and osteopathic school, how the med school app and the match process work etc). To be honest, medicine is not the field to enter if you just want a job, the training required to care for someone else's life is intense, very long, and very expensive. Med school is amont the most difficult academic programs you can take, and a resident works 80+ hours a week at a minimum and is paid only to live.

Focus now on getting into college, and once there you can meet with a pre-health or pre-med advisor who can help guide you through applying to medical school.
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OMG, so its true. doctors do have to spend 8 plus years in school. have they no lives???
hey, i just thought about entering this field a few weeks, not like Grey's Anatomy teaching me any of this. and is hospital life really like Grey's Anatomy?? hot neurosurgeons?? lol
all those years better payoffs, i want to look good for my ten year reunion.
i really don't care if i like it or not. the economy sucks, all the best business schools are private and up north, plus y'all make more. med school and all those other training years will be expensive, but once y'all have the jobs, y'all can pay it off, right??
i just want to be successful and not a failure. i'll work on my ppl skills but if i get sick or AIDS, im suing. besides, neuroscience is interesting to me. i plan on majoring in it if i don't change my mind.
thanx
 
Rooter76, you are very nice. 👍
 
ahaydt said:
Then become a pharmacist. Its a posh lifestyle that is "easier" than the rigors of medicine. However don't take pharmacy for granted either. Its difficult.
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i don't want to be a pharmacist. ppl might see me at walgreens or cvs. do you know, how embarrassing that is??
 
I'm not sure if this person is real, or is a figment of my imagination.
 
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Get back under your bridge
 
ymnCheetos said:
Now I'm 100% certain this thread is a joke. The tough part is figuring out which regular poster is OP...
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Haha. It reminds me of a Blargh post. :laugh:

Who knows, but an entertaining read nonetheless. 🙂
 
neuropsych6 said:
i don't want to be a pharmacist. ppl might see me at walgreens or cvs. do you know, how embarrassing that is??
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Haha, man, this keeps getting more and more hilarious.

OP, just your humor alone is going to make you very successful in life
 
I'll give you credit. This topic was pretty well thought out. 👍
 
Nooooooooooooo

amwatts what happened to your avatar?
 
This isn't even a good quality troll-post. Back to the drawing board.
 
hmmmm... fishy fishy fishy.
 
Is this for real? Business has about as many job openings as it's gonna get. You can do so many things. Why would you pursue 11+ years of college in something you have no interest in?
 
I don't think this thread is necessarily funny or joke-like. I personally know at least two dozen medical students whose parent's LITERALLY told them: "Become a physician or we'll disown you, and you'll lose everything. Not a dentist, nor a pharmacist, nor a chemist, nor a Ph.D. Honor our name with an M.D. or you can die on the street."

Real effing nice thing to say; these people clearly care more about impressing people with what their kids are doing than they do about their kids themselves. I know one girl who's practically suicidal and has turned to drugs because of it.

Note: None of these are white, american-borne people.
 
H_Caulfield said:
I don't think this thread is necessarily funny or joke-like. I personally know at least two dozen medical students whose parent's LITERALLY told them: "Become a physician or we'll disown you, and you'll lose everything. Not a dentist, nor a pharmacist, nor a chemist, nor a Ph.D. Honor our name with an M.D. or you can die on the street."

Real effing nice thing to say; these people clearly care more about impressing people with what their kids are doing than they do about their kids themselves. I know one girl who's practically suicidal and has turned to drugs because of it.

Note: None of these are white, american-borne people.
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Irrelevant to the discussion unless you are trying to make the racist argument that certain groups care more about appearance than the wellbeing of their children. Thanks for the garbage input 👍
 
dude?? so know im a man?? ALL I DID WAS ASK SOME ****ING QUESTIONS!!! if YOU don't know it, move on. i don't have time for ********. and i can be on here if i want. except not now, i have school in three hours. i don't need all this ******edness; im just 16 yr old trying to decide what to be in life. only it has to be in medical, or apparently "i'll end up in the streets with a MBA begging for money from my sister" yeah w/e dad.
 
I don't know why people insist on keeping this up. A 16 year old? They don't know which shirt or pair of pants they want to wear, much less what they want to do in life (for the most part). What about the vocabulary?
Psych6 just get through high school, everyone seems to figure it out.
 
ColKurtz said:
aww, I thought she was kinda cute
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hey colkurtz, that avatar is soooo hot. i can't stop staring at how hot his folds are. looking for a good time? call me. 😉
 
neuropsych6 said:
dude?? so know im a man?? ALL I DID WAS ASK SOME PHUCKING QUESTIONS!!! if YOU don't know it, move on. i don't have time for bullshyt. and i can be on here if i want. except not now, i have school in three hours. i don't need all this ******edness; im just 16 yr old trying to decide what to be in life. only it has to be in medical, or apparently "i'll end up in the streets with a MBA begging for money from my sister" yeah w/e dad.
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Persistence doesn't make a good troll. You lose. 👎
 
neuropsych6 said:
can someone help me??
all my life i wanted to have a career in business but business is too risky so i switched to healthcare.
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Stop right there. There is an incredible amount of risk involved in going into medicine, that is why people on this board are so stressed out. There are many places along the way when you can fail, and unless you really want to do this, you will get weeded out. Sure you have job security once you finish your education, but getting there is kinda hard. You don't even need a Bachelor's to go into business. If you want to make money, do business. Get an MBA, open a private practice with your sister, together you'll be unstoppable.
 
Drogba said:
Irrelevant to the discussion unless you are trying to make the racist argument that certain groups care more about appearance than the wellbeing of their children. Thanks for the garbage input 👍
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It isn't irrelevant because the OP is in a very similar situation. And yes, that IS the argument I'm trying to make. It would be racist only if it weren't absolutely true, and so I'm just making a factual observation that's confirmed for me again, and again, and again.

I know it's none of my business, but I can't help but feel bad for some of these people. To make it worse, most of them are about 21, having been rushed through accelerated programs before they had any control over their own lives, and are now stuck deep in the middle of something they didn't even choose. Nice. Seriously, one dropped out last week and tried to kill herself...
 
H_Caulfield said:
It isn't irrelevant because the OP is in a very similar situation. And yes, that IS the argument I'm trying to make. It would be racist only if it weren't absolutely true, and so I'm just making a factual observation that's confirmed for me again, and again, and again.
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Yeah - racism is always based on lies and rarely confirmed by truth. If I see an asian kid and assume they're an engineer/doctor, it's not racist because they probably are an engineer. Your argument is sound and well thought out - I congratulate you.

Once you're 18, if your parents can still tell you what to do it's because you're spoiled. If you can't give up the 3 series and tuition money, that's fine - that's your decision. But don't expect overflowing sympathy from those of us that grew a pair and thought for ourselves before the age of 30. If your family will disown you for not becoming a doctor, your family is the problem - not you.
 
BigRedder said:
Stop right there. There is an incredible amount of risk involved in going into medicine, that is why people on this board are so stressed out. There are many places along the way when you can fail, and unless you really want to do this, you will get weeded out. Sure you have job security once you finish your education, but getting there is kinda hard. You don't even need a Bachelor's to go into business. If you want to make money, do business. Get an MBA, open a private practice with your sister, together you'll be unstoppable.
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um, how about no...i told y'all already. i gave up business and i don't have choice in going back. either i go into law or medicine, and i picked medicine. i just don't know what in medicine. most likely radiology or psychiatry. but i don't even know HOW i become a neuroradiologist or a psychiatrist.
and i don't think there is much 'risk' in medicine. all you have to do is study and have no social life. that shouldn't be so hard. besides, my sister will not make more money than me, i mean, i am the older one.😎
 
neuropsych6 said:
um, how about no...i told y'all already. i gave up business and i don't have choice in going back. either i go into law or medicine, and i picked medicine. i just don't know what in medicine. most likely radiology or psychiatry. but i don't even know HOW i become a neuroradiologist or a psychiatrist.
and i don't think there is much 'risk' in medicine. all you have to do is study and have no social life. that shouldn't be so hard. besides, my sister will not make more money than me, i mean, i am the older one.😎
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Ummm... you said your sister is training to be a surgeon in reconstruction... Unless she has the limitless prowess of Saul, I see no way that you could be older than she is.
 
MarySue99 said:
Ummm... you said your sister is training to be a surgeon in reconstruction... Unless she has the limitless prowess of Saul, I see no way that you could be older than she is.[/quote]i may have worded this wrong. she wants to be surgeon in reconstruction, but she's younger than me. my sisters shadows a surgeon and nurse assistants at Memorial Hermann in the Texas Medical Systems once every month. she likes that type of environment.
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If you honestly do not want to be a physician, I would recommend against pursuing the field. If you somehow do manage to get accepted to medical school (hard enough as it is), your head will probably explode sometime during the first year. Someone that hasn't experienced it cannot understand how hard med school is. "Having no life" does not begin to describe the work you will have to put in and the stress you will be placed under. If you do not have a deep-seeded desire pulling you through, you will lose it.

Either way, high school is a bit premature to be making long term career decisions. For now, focus on graduating and getting into college. Once in college, figure out what you want to do from there. You don't need to decide on medicine now, you definitely don't need to be deciding on a specialty now. Go ahead and take some time to enjoy being in high school.
 
How is that you're in high school and already "switching careers?"

DANG, I smell a troll!
 
TexanGirl said:
How is that you're in high school and already "switching careers?"

DANG, I smell a troll!
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i don't know what you mean by troll but i was planning on pursuing business but i changed my mind.
 
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