Is it just me or are some Carribean medical students plain delusional?

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Man.. I can already see what's gonna happen next.

She's gonna be approached by VH1 or some other network and be asked to do her own reality TV show about her trials and tribulations and the wacky adventures of Anjali. It's gonna focus on her shift to becoming a spokesperson against drinking and alcohol related incidents and her struggle to regain her respect and identity. That will transpire into a multimillion dollar empire of Ramkissoon clothing and apparel, toys, and other social media apps. Little girls everywhere will want to grow up to be just like Anjali! Applications to the Caribbean will rise as the clueless pre-meds who apply there will now say "but Anjali Ramkissoon went there! She's famous!"

And soo....


the cycle continues.
 
Brorthopedic said:
I doubt the program actually wanted her termination, she just drew too much public attention
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I hope she gets another job soon. That med school tuition won't pay itself.

You gotta give it to her though. Matching into neuro from Caribbean.
 
DetectiveAlonzo said:
Wow. Quite the resume there. I'm sure PDs everywhere are gonna be fighting tooth and nail over this one!
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Hobbies include photography, NASA, and eventually lifestyle blogging...sounds about as hipster as med school gets...

DrFizition said:
I hope she gets another job soon. That med school tuition won't pay itself.

You gotta give it to her though. Matching into neuro from Caribbean.
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Just a heads up, neuro is one of the least competitive specialties out there. If it were neurosurgery I'd be impressed, straight up neuro, not so much.
 
Wizard on wards, what a joke! by far the most shameless self promoter I have ever seen. Doubt she'll ever go anywhere with her ortho ambitions, for one, she is wearing a stethoscope in her pics, that alone will get her canned. Can you imagine being a coresident with her? just the thought of it makes me cringe.
 
Stagg737 said:
Just a heads up, neuro is one of the least competitive specialties out there. If it were neurosurgery I'd be impressed, straight up neuro, not so much.
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Depends on where they match also. MGH/BWH, definitely. Some community program in the middle of nowhere, nope.
 
Brorthopedic said:
I doubt the program actually wanted her termination, she just drew too much public attention
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I totally agree especially because there were no charges filed.
She has a good shot at an appeal maybe. It depends on the wording of her contract.
 
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DetectiveAlonzo said:
I agree with you Auntyji, but many girls like her, atleast in my generation, are only concerned with married and status cause their mothers did the same thing.. atleast that's how it is in my neck of the woods. It's always the crazy ones who end up heading to the Caribbean for some reason. It's a vicious cycle I tell you.
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Happy to oblige!

Quoting the exceptionally sage @gyngyn:

"The pool of US applicants from the Caribbean is viewed differently by Program Directors.

The differential diagnosis (the potential etiology) for this finding is not pretty.
It includes: Institutional Actions, parental pressure, egotism, weak judgment, inability to delay gratification, poor research skills, gullibility, high risk behavior...

This is not to say that all of them still have the quality that drew them into this situation. There is just no way to know which ones they are. Some PD's are in a position where they need to take risks too! So some do get interviews.

A strong academic showing in a Caribbean medical school does not erase this stigma. It fact it increases the perception that the reason for the choice was on the above-mentioned list!"


DetectiveAlonzo said:
The Caribbean.

I need @Goro in here to tell us all of the symptoms of a Carib applicant like my boo Anjlai has and you'll see why this type of behavior is what it is.
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jqueb29 said:
Yeeesh this may be even worse than her Carribean article. Let's break it down bit by bit:

1. "Though, I am little, I am fierce."

Literally couldn't make it one word without a mistake. Why on Earth is there a comma after "though"? UCLA, please rescind her English degree.

2. "No, I was the girl strutting air Nike’s"

Probably a lie, as anybody who actually strutted those shoes knows they would be called either "Nike Airs" or "Air Jordans", depending on which specific model she had, and not whatever "air Nike's" are. Shoutout to her for not capitalizing "air" and adding an incorrect apostrophe to "Nikes", though.

3. "women are intimidated to even apply to this field because of the misogynistic, stereotypically belief that women aren’t stronger than men."

Oh God, now we're really getting into the garbage. Notice that she doesn't claim that women are as strong as men, but that they are actually stronger. And if you don't believe that women are stronger than men, you're such a misogynist. LOL.

4. "Growing up in high school on the Track and Field team, I was the girl on the field, running with Jumpman Air Jordan’s"

Yet again, sounds like she's just making all this up. She was the girl on the field, yet she was running; events "on the field" are things such as shot put, discus, etc. where you are not running. Track is where you run. These may seem nitpicky, but really, this is not how someone who actually did these things would refer to it, especially in a "professional" article on a website as illustrious as Huffington Post.

5. "I put poor Rudy to shame in front of all of his friends and smoked him in the 400 meter race. I no longer ran the field with basketball shoes. This day, I proved that women are tougher, stronger, faster, quicker, and better than men."

Yes, a 400 meter race against Rudy definitively proved all that. I hope she doesn't become a practicing physician of any type, let alone an orthopedic surgeon. The critical reasoning skills she displays here suggest she would not provide the most ideal outcomes for her patients.

6. "I not only proved that women are stronger than men but that we as a species are equipped to be in the same ring and to play on the same field as men."

This reads like something from the personal statement of a student with a 2.0 GPA who doesn't get an interview anywhere legitimate. Which, you know, considering she's in the Caribbean, may be exactly correct.

7. "Today, only few women apply to Orthopedic Surgery residencies and the statistic is so low because they essentially fear not only a room full of men but a place where their bosses and peers are men as well, immensely leaving the contraindication of diversity."

Okay, either she's such a literary genius that my meager level of intelligence is insufficient to comprehend her majestic works, or she writes like a 7th grader throwing in words they found in a thesaurus and don't understand in a futile attempt to sound impressive. "Immensely leaving the contraindication of diversity"............what on Earth is that even supposed to mean? That's literally nonsense.

8. "What medical school you came from or USMLE Board Scores should not deter a woman from applying nor the concept that men are more capable in this field."

Ignoring the fact that, yes, low board scores at a Caribbean med school should definitely deter you from applying ortho, she should have written this as something like: "what medical school you came from or your USMLE board scores should not deter a woman from applying, and we should abolish the misconception that men are more capable in this field." As she currently has it written, it is, once again, illegible nonsense.


I know there are some Caribbean grads out there who are perfectly competent doctors. Some of them should get in touch with this Wizard of the Wards and let her know she's a terrible public face for them and that her attempts to bolster acceptance of Caribbean med schools are very successfully accomplishing the exact opposite.
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#savage
 
jqueb29 said:
Yeeesh this may be even worse than her Carribean article. Let's break it down bit by bit:

1. "Though, I am little, I am fierce."

Literally couldn't make it one word without a mistake. Why on Earth is there a comma after "though"? UCLA, please rescind her English degree.

2. "No, I was the girl strutting air Nike’s"

Probably a lie, as anybody who actually strutted those shoes knows they would be called either "Nike Airs" or "Air Jordans", depending on which specific model she had, and not whatever "air Nike's" are. Shoutout to her for not capitalizing "air" and adding an incorrect apostrophe to "Nikes", though.

3. "women are intimidated to even apply to this field because of the misogynistic, stereotypically belief that women aren’t stronger than men."

Oh God, now we're really getting into the garbage. Notice that she doesn't claim that women are as strong as men, but that they are actually stronger. And if you don't believe that women are stronger than men, you're such a misogynist. LOL. Plus yet another grammatical error with 'stereotypically'.

4. "Growing up in high school on the Track and Field team, I was the girl on the field, running with Jumpman Air Jordan’s"

Yet again, sounds like she's just making all this up. She was the girl on the field, yet she was running; events "on the field" are things such as shot put, discus, etc. where you are not running. Track is where you run. These may seem nitpicky, but really, this is not how someone who actually did these things would refer to it, especially in a "professional" article on a website as illustrious as Huffington Post. And why the **** would you be running track with 'Jumpman Air Jordan's' (sic), which are basketball shoes?

5. "I put poor Rudy to shame in front of all of his friends and smoked him in the 400 meter race. I no longer ran the field with basketball shoes. This day, I proved that women are tougher, stronger, faster, quicker, and better than men."

Yes, a 400 meter race against Rudy definitively proved all that. I hope she doesn't become a practicing physician of any type, let alone an orthopedic surgeon. The critical reasoning skills she displays here suggest she would not provide the most ideal outcomes for her patients.

6. "I not only proved that women are stronger than men but that we as a species are equipped to be in the same ring and to play on the same field as men."

This reads like something from the personal statement of a student with a 2.0 GPA who doesn't get an interview anywhere legitimate. Which, you know, considering she's in the Caribbean, may be exactly correct.

7. "Today, only few women apply to Orthopedic Surgery residencies and the statistic is so low because they essentially fear not only a room full of men but a place where their bosses and peers are men as well, immensely leaving the contraindication of diversity."

Okay, either she's such a literary genius that my meager level of intelligence is insufficient to comprehend her majestic works, or she writes like a 7th grader throwing in words they found in a thesaurus and don't understand in a futile attempt to sound impressive. "Immensely leaving the contraindication of diversity"............what on Earth is that even supposed to mean? That's literally nonsense.

8. "What medical school you came from or USMLE Board Scores should not deter a woman from applying nor the concept that men are more capable in this field."

Ignoring the fact that, yes, low board scores at a Caribbean med school should definitely deter you from applying ortho, she should have written this as something like: "what medical school you came from or your USMLE board scores should not deter a woman from applying, and we should abolish the misconception that men are more capable in this field." As she currently has it written, it is, once again, illegible nonsense.


I know there are some Caribbean grads out there who are perfectly competent doctors. Some of them should get in touch with this Wizard of the Wards and let her know she's a terrible public face for them and that her attempts to bolster acceptance of Caribbean med schools are very successfully accomplishing the exact opposite.
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This entire article reads like some half-****** posting to a forum with the caps lock key stuck on. Huff Post is already a joke, but the mere fact that they're publishing drivel like this really removes any remaining sense of legitimacy I had for the site.
 
Lord Vader, your insight is beyond me....... keep it up.... there are no consequences to your stellar behaviour......

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Psai said:
I can hear the cane clicking from over here
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It takes a boatload of spin and Pilates, an aggravating diet, and all sorts of anti aging potions, believe me.

Though it's time for Botox etc soon, I think. I don't want to look old


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tymont12 said:
Her favorite medical journal, you ask? NEJM, of course 🙄

What is the point of this other than to show she's grasping at straws from her time at UCLA 10 years ago and being Armenian...

Favorite quote: "I transported latinos for checkups."
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WOW......
 
DetectiveAlonzo said:
HOLY ****!

HOT OFF THE PRESS YO. EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/downtown-miami/article73411022.html

“Jackson Health System is moving forward with the termination of Dr. Anjali Ramkissoon, a resident doctor. She is entitled to an appeal process,” the official statement reads."
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You guys are way too obsessed about this girl...
 
Lord_Vader said:
We started a new rotation this week and our school rotates with SGU students at the hospital. As part of the standard process the attending asked all of us what we wanted to go into. Everything seemed natural until one SGU student said they wanted to go into ortho and then another one afterwards said they were interested in urology. It was hard not to have a physical reaction to their answers but surely they must have seen the change on all of the faces of the kids from my med school. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the match rate for the surgical subspecialities extremely low for Carribean students and that statistically speaking it is very hard for those students to match into something like ortho or uro? I almost felt compelled to pull them aside afterwards and implore them to change their decisions lest they face a very disastrous road ahead. Surely someone from their school must've talked to them about the whole process? Now don't get me wrong. The majority of the Carribean students I've worked with have been pleasant and very realistic about their future. But this isn't the first time something like what I just described has occurred.
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I know a guy who went to St. Mary's and actually got his MD from there, and they don't even have current classes at the moment. Check their website. It's there, but it tells people that it no longer has a cohort class. BUT, this guy did really well and did really well on his boards and got into a really good residency program in ortho at Emory, which is where I used to work as a pharmacy tech at one time (years ago, but it was a really tough program then, and it's only gotten tougher from what I've heard). Anyway, he must have really impressed his attending, or who knows who else, because now, he works as a physiatrist (or PM&R if you prefer) as well as getting on with one of Atlanta's top pain clinics. So, yeah ... if you know anything about these fields, you know he's raking in mad, crazy, psycho money. The kind of money that's usually reserved for surgeons like cardio and thorasics. But the point is, he GRADUATED from a "medical school" that, for all intents and purposes, doesn't even exist anymore. I'm not going to give his name because he's a friend of mine, (as well as one of my doctors), and seeing as how I'm currently still doing my premed prereqs in my career change do over, it never pays to speak badly of other physicians, be they MD or DO, PhD or MD/PhD, or even CRNA's, PA's, NP's, or even RN's. Bottom line, if you can get your foot in the door, which medically speaking, if you want to be a medical doctor, means getting a good residency, and then study and KNOW YOUR S**T, you can go very far. If someone had told the 18 year old me that I'd end up being a computer engineer from Georgia Tech, I'd have thought they were crazy, because all I wanted at the time was to be a doctor. But due to this little thing called LIFE, I ended up having to wait until my kid was raised and on her own, my divorce had been over and done for decades, and HER 'new' husband is now dead from colon cancer, I was back in school thinking I'd go to nursing school, get an ADN, start working as an RN, then do the totally online RN-BSN bridge while I worked, and then work my way up by taking my medical prereqs part-time while working as a full-time BSN RN, and maybe considering being a CRNA, and THEN getting diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia halfway through my A&P I (for the 2nd time with an A the previous time, but had to retake due to 7 year rule) and Microbiology course before starting nursing school, and having to drop out COMPLETELY because I was in the hospital until they got my diagnosis right and got my WBC down from 280,000 and into norm range, and then 2 years later, which is now, me getting my feet back under me after the whole cancer scare, and finally deciding HEY, you're not getting younger, BUT you might live longer than you think, so why not just go ahead and GO FOR WHAT YOU REALLY WANT TO DO, which is BE A DOCTOR, if someone would've told me I'd be doing this at the age of 48 (well, 49 in June, just to nitpick), when I was a computer engineer and I was unhappily married with a kid in my late 20's, I'd have thought THEY were crazy! So, I guess if you managed to decipher all of that, you get my point, and if not, then tl;dr you never know WTH is going to happen in your life or TO YOU in your life, so don't look at others and judge them too harshly, and don't look at others and think too harshly of YOURSELF, because we live in a time and place where people have walked on our moon, built machines that are building machines that can think, and rejuvenated telomeres on the CEO of a company that uses the enzyme telomerase to reverse the aging process at the cellular level by rejuvenating telomeres, THEN YOU CAN PROBABLY FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET INTO A MEDICAL SCHOOL SOMEWHERE AND BECOME A DOCTOR. Dontcha think? 😉
 
Mad Jack said:
"Although there is a doctor shortage in the U.S. for Family Medicine and Primary Care Physicians, SGU grads should be given the same opportunities for competitive residencies like Orthopedic Surgery, Dermatology, etc., in the United States."

We could, you know, fill healthcare needs. But we should have the opportunity to, you know, not. For the good of us, because screw our country- it should guarantee us equal opportunities and we shoudn't have to do a damn thing in return.
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Then they should first get into competitive US medical schools ..
There is a massive difference between other schools vs us ones.
 
NEVERSURRENDERMD said:
I know a guy who went to St. Mary's and actually got his MD from there, and they don't even have current classes at the moment. Check their website. It's there, but it tells people that it no longer has a cohort class. BUT, this guy did really well and did really well on his boards and got into a really good residency program in ortho at Emory, which is where I used to work as a pharmacy tech at one time (years ago, but it was a really tough program then, and it's only gotten tougher from what I've heard). Anyway, he must have really impressed his attending, or who knows who else, because now, he works as a physiatrist (or PM&R if you prefer) as well as getting on with one of Atlanta's top pain clinics. So, yeah ... if you know anything about these fields, you know he's raking in mad, crazy, psycho money. The kind of money that's usually reserved for surgeons like cardio and thorasics. But the point is, he GRADUATED from a "medical school" that, for all intents and purposes, doesn't even exist anymore. I'm not going to give his name because he's a friend of mine, (as well as one of my doctors), and seeing as how I'm currently still doing my premed prereqs in my career change do over, it never pays to speak badly of other physicians, be they MD or DO, PhD or MD/PhD, or even CRNA's, PA's, NP's, or even RN's. Bottom line, if you can get your foot in the door, which medically speaking, if you want to be a medical doctor, means getting a good residency, and then study and KNOW YOUR S**T, you can go very far. If someone had told the 18 year old me that I'd end up being a computer engineer from Georgia Tech, I'd have thought they were crazy, because all I wanted at the time was to be a doctor. But due to this little thing called LIFE, I ended up having to wait until my kid was raised and on her own, my divorce had been over and done for decades, and HER 'new' husband is now dead from colon cancer, I was back in school thinking I'd go to nursing school, get an ADN, start working as an RN, then do the totally online RN-BSN bridge while I worked, and then work my way up by taking my medical prereqs part-time while working as a full-time BSN RN, and maybe considering being a CRNA, and THEN getting diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia halfway through my A&P I (for the 2nd time with an A the previous time, but had to retake due to 7 year rule) and Microbiology course before starting nursing school, and having to drop out COMPLETELY because I was in the hospital until they got my diagnosis right and got my WBC down from 280,000 and into norm range, and then 2 years later, which is now, me getting my feet back under me after the whole cancer scare, and finally deciding HEY, you're not getting younger, BUT you might live longer than you think, so why not just go ahead and GO FOR WHAT YOU REALLY WANT TO DO, which is BE A DOCTOR, if someone would've told me I'd be doing this at the age of 48 (well, 49 in June, just to nitpick), when I was a computer engineer and I was unhappily married with a kid in my late 20's, I'd have thought THEY were crazy! So, I guess if you managed to decipher all of that, you get my point, and if not, then tl;dr you never know WTH is going to happen in your life or TO YOU in your life, so don't look at others and judge them too harshly, and don't look at others and think too harshly of YOURSELF, because we live in a time and place where people have walked on our moon, built machines that are building machines that can think, and rejuvenated telomeres on the CEO of a company that uses the enzyme telomerase to reverse the aging process at the cellular level by rejuvenating telomeres, THEN YOU CAN PROBABLY FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET INTO A MEDICAL SCHOOL SOMEWHERE AND BECOME A DOCTOR. Dontcha think? 😉
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What the heck...
 
Psai said:
What the heck...
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There was a lot going on in there but i can't imagine a situation where a categorical ortho resident graduates and works as a physiatrist (a medical specialty rather than a surgical one which has its own residency and wasn't known to be particularly competitive) so I'm thinking there was some mistaken info somewhere in there.

Edit: not that it really matters because ortho used to be relatively easy to get into
 
NEVERSURRENDERMD said:
I know a guy who went to St. Mary's and actually got his MD from there, and they don't even have current classes at the moment. Check their website. It's there, but it tells people that it no longer has a cohort class. BUT, this guy did really well and did really well on his boards and got into a really good residency program in ortho at Emory, which is where I used to work as a pharmacy tech at one time (years ago, but it was a really tough program then, and it's only gotten tougher from what I've heard). Anyway, he must have really impressed his attending, or who knows who else, because now, he works as a physiatrist (or PM&R if you prefer) as well as getting on with one of Atlanta's top pain clinics. So, yeah ... if you know anything about these fields, you know he's raking in mad, crazy, psycho money. The kind of money that's usually reserved for surgeons like cardio and thorasics. But the point is, he GRADUATED from a "medical school" that, for all intents and purposes, doesn't even exist anymore. I'm not going to give his name because he's a friend of mine, (as well as one of my doctors), and seeing as how I'm currently still doing my premed prereqs in my career change do over, it never pays to speak badly of other physicians, be they MD or DO, PhD or MD/PhD, or even CRNA's, PA's, NP's, or even RN's. Bottom line, if you can get your foot in the door, which medically speaking, if you want to be a medical doctor, means getting a good residency, and then study and KNOW YOUR S**T, you can go very far. If someone had told the 18 year old me that I'd end up being a computer engineer from Georgia Tech, I'd have thought they were crazy, because all I wanted at the time was to be a doctor. But due to this little thing called LIFE, I ended up having to wait until my kid was raised and on her own, my divorce had been over and done for decades, and HER 'new' husband is now dead from colon cancer, I was back in school thinking I'd go to nursing school, get an ADN, start working as an RN, then do the totally online RN-BSN bridge while I worked, and then work my way up by taking my medical prereqs part-time while working as a full-time BSN RN, and maybe considering being a CRNA, and THEN getting diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia halfway through my A&P I (for the 2nd time with an A the previous time, but had to retake due to 7 year rule) and Microbiology course before starting nursing school, and having to drop out COMPLETELY because I was in the hospital until they got my diagnosis right and got my WBC down from 280,000 and into norm range, and then 2 years later, which is now, me getting my feet back under me after the whole cancer scare, and finally deciding HEY, you're not getting younger, BUT you might live longer than you think, so why not just go ahead and GO FOR WHAT YOU REALLY WANT TO DO, which is BE A DOCTOR, if someone would've told me I'd be doing this at the age of 48 (well, 49 in June, just to nitpick), when I was a computer engineer and I was unhappily married with a kid in my late 20's, I'd have thought THEY were crazy! So, I guess if you managed to decipher all of that, you get my point, and if not, then tl;dr you never know WTH is going to happen in your life or TO YOU in your life, so don't look at others and judge them too harshly, and don't look at others and think too harshly of YOURSELF, because we live in a time and place where people have walked on our moon, built machines that are building machines that can think, and rejuvenated telomeres on the CEO of a company that uses the enzyme telomerase to reverse the aging process at the cellular level by rejuvenating telomeres, THEN YOU CAN PROBABLY FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET INTO A MEDICAL SCHOOL SOMEWHERE AND BECOME A DOCTOR. Dontcha think? 😉
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I feel like as a computer engineer you should be aware of the "return" key.
 
NEVERSURRENDERMD said:
I know a guy who went to St. Mary's and actually got his MD from there, and they don't even have current classes at the moment. Check their website. It's there, but it tells people that it no longer has a cohort class. BUT, this guy did really well and did really well on his boards and got into a really good residency program in ortho at Emory, which is where I used to work as a pharmacy tech at one time (years ago, but it was a really tough program then, and it's only gotten tougher from what I've heard). Anyway, he must have really impressed his attending, or who knows who else, because now, he works as a physiatrist (or PM&R if you prefer) as well as getting on with one of Atlanta's top pain clinics. So, yeah ... if you know anything about these fields, you know he's raking in mad, crazy, psycho money. The kind of money that's usually reserved for surgeons like cardio and thorasics. But the point is, he GRADUATED from a "medical school" that, for all intents and purposes, doesn't even exist anymore. I'm not going to give his name because he's a friend of mine, (as well as one of my doctors), and seeing as how I'm currently still doing my premed prereqs in my career change do over, it never pays to speak badly of other physicians, be they MD or DO, PhD or MD/PhD, or even CRNA's, PA's, NP's, or even RN's. Bottom line, if you can get your foot in the door, which medically speaking, if you want to be a medical doctor, means getting a good residency, and then study and KNOW YOUR S**T, you can go very far. If someone had told the 18 year old me that I'd end up being a computer engineer from Georgia Tech, I'd have thought they were crazy, because all I wanted at the time was to be a doctor. But due to this little thing called LIFE, I ended up having to wait until my kid was raised and on her own, my divorce had been over and done for decades, and HER 'new' husband is now dead from colon cancer, I was back in school thinking I'd go to nursing school, get an ADN, start working as an RN, then do the totally online RN-BSN bridge while I worked, and then work my way up by taking my medical prereqs part-time while working as a full-time BSN RN, and maybe considering being a CRNA, and THEN getting diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia halfway through my A&P I (for the 2nd time with an A the previous time, but had to retake due to 7 year rule) and Microbiology course before starting nursing school, and having to drop out COMPLETELY because I was in the hospital until they got my diagnosis right and got my WBC down from 280,000 and into norm range, and then 2 years later, which is now, me getting my feet back under me after the whole cancer scare, and finally deciding HEY, you're not getting younger, BUT you might live longer than you think, so why not just go ahead and GO FOR WHAT YOU REALLY WANT TO DO, which is BE A DOCTOR, if someone would've told me I'd be doing this at the age of 48 (well, 49 in June, just to nitpick), when I was a computer engineer and I was unhappily married with a kid in my late 20's, I'd have thought THEY were crazy! So, I guess if you managed to decipher all of that, you get my point, and if not, then tl;dr you never know WTH is going to happen in your life or TO YOU in your life, so don't look at others and judge them too harshly, and don't look at others and think too harshly of YOURSELF, because we live in a time and place where people have walked on our moon, built machines that are building machines that can think, and rejuvenated telomeres on the CEO of a company that uses the enzyme telomerase to reverse the aging process at the cellular level by rejuvenating telomeres, THEN YOU CAN PROBABLY FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET INTO A MEDICAL SCHOOL SOMEWHERE AND BECOME A DOCTOR. Dontcha think? 😉
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is this the guy
http://www.lowbackpain.com/pdfs/sheltonCV1207(2).pdf
 
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KinesiologyNerd said:
I feel like as a computer engineer you should be aware of the "return" key.
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Haha. Good point and my apologies. I have a tendency to do that on forums or any format where it doesn't look like I'm just typing on a word processor or piece of paper. I'll try to keep it in check on here.
 
dpmd said:
There was a lot going on in there but i can't imagine a situation where a categorical ortho resident graduates and works as a physiatrist (a medical specialty rather than a surgical one which has its own residency and wasn't known to be particularly competitive) so I'm thinking there was some mistaken info somewhere in there.

Edit: not that it really matters because ortho used to be relatively easy to get into
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You are correct. Here's your toaster! No, I'd had a few drinks last night, so that WAS a bit stream of conscience (or conscious maybe?) JK. I've been known to joke before.
 
ThoracicGuy said:
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You guys are way too obsessed about this girl...
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Not obsessed.... just interested to see how her situation plays out. It's interesting to see how **** hits the fan when a future doctor goes cray cray and how the social media age can essentially make you or break you. There's a lesson to be learned from all of this.... Don't get ****faced and beat up Uber drivers... on Camera.
 
frosted_flake said:
It took that guy 8 years to finish UG.
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It WAS 8 years. You most certainly don't know that he SPENT 8 years IN SCHOOL as an undergrad. The guy has paid his dues. He's a good doctor. I'd trust him long before I'd trust my sister's doctor, and he's a Harvard graduate with apparent brain damage (as nearly as I can tell, judging by the course of treatment he's prescribed her in the past).
 
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