EDIT: Apparently your parents aren't allowing it. In that case graduate, find a job, then if you still want to be a doctor go back and repeat those classes while paying for your own education.
Thats not feasible for me.
I guess, to reiterate, all I can say is
You know what? Im good. Shouldn't you be studying for the SATs or something?
As you see, in terms of performance, warranty, and luxury, the BMW out-performs the Honda. Can you make a valid comparison with D.O.? They both function equally, the both have the same rights, they both earn the same, they both can do ACGME training. A side from a sub-set of MD's that went to top 20 schools, the opportunities, career-wise, are identical.
Is there something in particular that you're interested in that you think would be harder to do as a DO?
Not according to the MDs I've talked too. Specializing as a DO is more difficult and most of the good residencies are given to US MDs unless your an exceptional DO student. You basically have to work much harder to receive the same opportunities you would as an MD. So no - not exactly the same. Very similar maybe - but not exactly the same.
Before you say anything, I don't know what its like to be a screw up like you, and I don't intend to ever find out. I've been fortunate enough to realize I'm responsible for my own well being and my happiness is something only I can make happen.
If you've never been a screw up, then you don't know how painful it is to live as one. Therefore your opinion carries no meaning whatsoever. Run along now, the mayor of IgnoranceVille is making you an honorary citizen.
Curing cancer is hard whether you sign your name DO or MD. What's really important to you?
Look the bottom line is you let these bad grades happen and they aren't going away. You can choose to give up and be depressed, or you can make the best of your situation and use DO's grade replacement policy. Which sounds better to you?
The point of the degree, whether it be MD or DO, is to help people and if you can't help yourself than you are looking at the wrong career. If you are trying to prove something to yourself rather than make a difference I don't think you will enjoy working in this career.
At the end, both training produce the same thing. Heck, I'd even throw in Caribbean being equal at the end of training (and they have an MD). At the end of the day, the differences between MD/DO/CaribMD are that as the school's perceived prestige lowers, one has to work that much harder to get up there, but this doesn't mean that there is a glass ceiling. A Honda can never become a BMW.
Dear God in heaven. Look at all these people jumping on the "why don't you go DO? take advantage of the grade replacement policy. its exactly the same....blah blah".
No $hit I have to take advantage of the grade replacement policy because that is my only motherf****ing option besides Caribbean to be a god damn doctor. So stop acting like I actually have a choice in the matter and can still go MD. Missing out on being an MD is my punishment that I will have to live with for being a screw up in college for the rest of my life, so don't make it seem like DO is the "best" option for me when in reality it is pretty much my only one.
If I had been a better human being, I may have been able to go MD, sadly not in this lifetime.
No one else answered my earlier question either:
WTF would I write on my DO application when I have never worked with or even met one in my life? There are no DOs in the hospital I work at in Vancouver. I would basically say:
Hi! I want to be a doctor and would LOVE to go to your school as a DO student because I have never worked with or even met a DO in my life. All the doctors that I have looked upto and learned from have been MDs but Im too much of a screw up in this lifetime to get into an MD school, so please let me in! When is the interview date?
Im sure ill be set and that they would want me for what is clearly a very strong reason to go to their school.
And if anyone there has very high GPAs, applied to MD schools, or are in MD schools, your opinions don't matter. You can't have the better degree and say that its ok to go for the second best degree. Ok, I agree that the car analogy was flawed, but if I were to bring up laptops, its like saying my new Mac is the same as your Dell, when in reality I end up with the better computer. Your opinion is basically meaningless.
Add my stupid South Asian culture on top of this just makes it even worse. I hate being Indian so much, its nice if your smart and successful but it completely sucks when your a ****** and a failure. Now I have to explain to my folks wtf a DO degree is and tell them why I can't be an MD just like our family friends, relatives, and the other 1 billion of us from that stupid @$$ country. Woohoo.
And after my parents tell me that they aren't paying for any of my education anymore, I have to figure out how I am going to finance the rest of college, post-bac programs, masters degree, SMP, and finally med school all by myself. Your right guys, thanks. I have every reason to be positive, happy, and motivated.
Yea I guess this should be the last thing said. This thread is getting repetitive. Lock this up.