<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by gasdoc:
MD's don't take the complex b/c we DON'T want to go into their residencies, which are in backward community hospital, or "glorified nursing homes" as I read on another post. DO's had to the USMLE b/c many of them want to come to allopathic residencies which are located in state of the art academic centers (at least a lot of them). Please get your premed facts straight.•
gasdog,
I can take this stuff from pre-meds but I don't expect this type of crap from a MS IV. I've noticed your crap all over on different threads and sections of SDN. Why don't
you get your premed facts straight?!! US MDs don't take the COMLEX because they aren't allowed to.
You are the most insecure US MD I've ever met. I'm getting sick of your crap on this forum. I know this will probably make you hate DOs even more but it is obvious that your ignorance will never change. It is painfully clear that your intention is not to learn more about DOs but rather to stroke your own ego. Why have you come on this forum? Is it because you've been getting crap from your other classmates about going into Anesthesia? Is this a defense mechanism created by your superego to protect your ego? Has your id gone out-of-control? Maybe you should utilize the free psych counseling that US MD schools provide.
What's with the creation of this thread:
Anesthesiology is fast becoming competitive
Can you get any more insecure? I've heard a rumor that Anesthesiology is for losers who couldn't find a real residency. Is this true? Isn't Anesthesia some backwards type of medicine that even a patient from a glorified nursing home can perform? What exactly are CRNAs? Can you share with the pre-meds what they do? Can we all say, "CRNAs can do the same thing Anesthesiologists do"? Isn't there a bill in Congress that will allow CRNAs to function without supervision? Are you going to lie to other pre-meds here and say that Anesthesiologists aren't worried about CRNAs? Because that's not what I hear from the Anesthesiologists that I've worked with. Ouch, that's gotta hurt!! Nurses with two years of training who can do the exact same things as you can. What does that say about your Anesthesia residency training?
Let me ask you another question, do you think that the surgeons you work for respect you? Hmmm... that's not what I hear from the US MD surgeons that I've worked with. I love how you guys sit there and read a paper or finish a crossword puzzle while the medical students, nurses, and surgeons (real doctors) are doing the 'real' work. In fact, I've met many Anesthesiologists who have gotten out of the field because they are sick of the lack of respect from surgeons. Sound familiar, gasdoc?
I guess they have DO Orthopedic and Neurosurgery Residencies at glorified nursing homes, huh? I guess you've surveyed all the residencies across America and decided that this was fact. Just because you read this somewhere does not make you any less guilty of the statement. Before you repost something and use it as fact, shouldn't you be responsible enough to verify the veracity of the statement. Gee... you'll make a great researcher. I guess Anesthesia was appropriate for you. It is obvious that you have chosen to be ignorant to make yourself feel better. You've sunken to the bottom of the medical community so it makes you feel better to try to find another group to put down.
Why do US DOs do Allopathic residencies? Yes, there are world class Allopathic residencies and we want to participate in them. So what? There are also a ton of ****ty ones too that many US MDs do. Do you own these state-of-the-art residencies? Did you build them by hand? Why do you take such pride in them and try to use the residencies as a basis to prove that as a MD you are better than a DO. For your information, these state-of-the-art residencies pick DOs over MDs all the time. I don't know where my entire class matched at but my friends and I matched at Stanford for IM, USC for EM, and Columbia for Anesthesia. Those are decent programs, aren't they?
By virtue of having more residencies, you will have more programs that are better. Just like you will have more programs that are worse.
I'm willing to bet that there many US MDs in a crappy Allopathic FP, Anesthesia, or IM residency that would gladly take a DO residency in Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Radiology, Emergency Medicine, Urology, Plastic Surgery, or Dermatology. You know why you never hear of an US MD in a DO residency? Because they aren't allowed to apply, gasdoc!! If these residencies are so backwards and so terrible, why have they been around for decades? Why hasn't 20/20 done a special on this crazy type of DO "Neurosurgery" residency?
I have no doubt that you were a top-notch Undergrad student when you were a teenager from 18-22 years old. It's too bad that your brain shut itself down when you were an adult medical student from 22-26 years old. Oh well, it's not like you're a brain surgeon. Sorry to take up so much time reading this. I hope the surgeon/boss you work for doesn't yell at you for being late. See gasdoc run.
P.S. Many of my comments were made tongue-in-cheek. The purpose was to illustrate how ignorance can be an ugly thing. If you don't like the ignorance that exists about Anesthesia, shouldn't you be cognizant of your own ignorance about other fields of medicine.
- leo