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I am a 4th year student at NYIT. I was originally planning on going to NYCOM, which is a US-Osteopathic school. When I did independent research on Osteopathic schools I found them to be very credible and a very good way of becoming a U.S. trained physician. I heard from people wanting to be DOs, people in DO school, and also from osteopaths that this a great thing to do. I knew there was a stigma attached to being a DO, but like them I didn't care all that much. I decided to persue a Caribbean MD not because of any DO related stigma but because I felt that all in all, the Caribbean MD route was better than the US DO route.
So now I began looking into Caribbean schools, and now it wasn't the 'DO' after your name that created the stigma but this wonderful new term called 'FMG', and the ever better 'US-FMG', which supposedly was worse. I looked into SGU, and was impressed immediately, and in may ways much more so than any other Osteopathic school I looked into. I learned that even though I did indeed think this was a better route, there was a stigma, real or imagined I do not know.
Nonetheless, I would still be proud to go this route. However, what motivated me to write this post was a recent post from someone patronizing primary care physicans, as if they had their very own stigma, and that they were somehow lesser doctors.
I thought are the same people that created the stigma around DO's, FMGs, US-FMGs, now creating one for Primary Care Physicians? I mean really, what better word is there than absurd to describe this.
What if I wanted to be a general surgeon? Maybe a bunch of neurosurgeons sitting around a dark room would be making fun of my hopefully mediocre self. Or maybe the specialists would be after me 😱
The absurdity of stigma people.
Lets send all of these stigma's straight to hell, and instead of bitching about them, lets talk about something foreign to many people. It's this seemingly obscure concept called 'Patient Care'. I don't know too many patients who know about the DO, FMG, US-FMG stigma, but I do know every patient knows the difference between a good doc and a bad one.
So now I began looking into Caribbean schools, and now it wasn't the 'DO' after your name that created the stigma but this wonderful new term called 'FMG', and the ever better 'US-FMG', which supposedly was worse. I looked into SGU, and was impressed immediately, and in may ways much more so than any other Osteopathic school I looked into. I learned that even though I did indeed think this was a better route, there was a stigma, real or imagined I do not know.
Nonetheless, I would still be proud to go this route. However, what motivated me to write this post was a recent post from someone patronizing primary care physicans, as if they had their very own stigma, and that they were somehow lesser doctors.
I thought are the same people that created the stigma around DO's, FMGs, US-FMGs, now creating one for Primary Care Physicians? I mean really, what better word is there than absurd to describe this.
What if I wanted to be a general surgeon? Maybe a bunch of neurosurgeons sitting around a dark room would be making fun of my hopefully mediocre self. Or maybe the specialists would be after me 😱
The absurdity of stigma people.
Lets send all of these stigma's straight to hell, and instead of bitching about them, lets talk about something foreign to many people. It's this seemingly obscure concept called 'Patient Care'. I don't know too many patients who know about the DO, FMG, US-FMG stigma, but I do know every patient knows the difference between a good doc and a bad one.
