But by doing so you made some erroneous claims. Your internet attitude is what drove me nuts about the perio guys at my school. Scrubbing in from head to toe, placing booties and full surgical scrubs and a surgical bouffant cap on to place implants...only to walk around the school during lunch with all the stuff on. Clowns. Wannabe's.
While doing my medicine rotations in OMFS I have come to realize that dental schools prepare your worth a crap for medicine. Most of my medicine came from self study.
What do you do at 1am when the ER calls you for an admit to your service because of raging HTN, DM, and borderline liver failure??? With every ounce inside of me I can attest that the LAST thing this patient needs is a full quadrant of sc/rp.
Go ahead and keep thinking that you guys are the shiznit when it comes to surgery, managing complex medical problems, and doing 'wild' operations in your booties (WTF?). When I peel someones face/forhead down over thier chin and access the medial orbit and repair a III NOE fracture, I smile and think 'just doing some perio'. Heaven help us.
Thinking you are close to MD...holy crap. I work in a hospital all the time and I know I don't come close to their knowledge. I know I could easily burn any perio foo though, after all they are the bottom of their class...