why dentistry sucks compared to medicine

[pathstudent]

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1) You will rarely, if ever, safe a life (even a pathologist who never sees a patient saves more lives by making diagnoses that dictate treatment, such as removing a person's colon or starting chemo)
2) It is not as interesting
3) You are more of a slickster businessman than a healer
4) every dentist I have ever had has been like Ned Flanders
5) It is not as comprehensive as medicine
6) You don't have to be as dedicated
7) You don't get to do a long and intense residency
8) You don't get to see the wonder of a baby's first minutes.
9) You don't get the honor of being with people in their last minutes
10)You will never run "a code", see an ED thoracostomy and perfrom cardiac massage, or put in a chest tube.
11)You will never get to be awake at 3 am with someone when they are suffering or need help.

Need I say more.

If I wanted to make huge money, I would have gone to a top 15 MBA program, only put in two years, and made more money and had more benefits than any doctor or dentist.

 

[Mike59]

Originally posted by pathstudent
1) You will rarely, if ever, safe a life (even a pathologist who never sees a patient saves more lives by making diagnoses that dictate treatment, such as removing a person's colon or starting chemo)
2) It is not as interesting
3) You are more of a slickster businessman than a healer
4) every dentist I have ever had has been like Ned Flanders
5) It is not as comprehensive as medicine
6) You don't have to be as dedicated
7) You don't get to do a long and intense residency
8) You don't get to see the wonder of a baby's first minutes.
9) You don't get the honor of being with people in their last minutes
10)You will never run "a code", see an ED thoracostomy and perfrom cardiac massage, or put in a chest tube.
11)You will never get to be awake at 3 am with someone when they are suffering or need help.

Need I say more.

If I wanted to make huge money, I would have gone to a top 15 MBA program, only put in two years, and made more money and had more benefits than any doctor or dentist.

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[phatsebz]

well saiddd!!!!!!!!!!! yeaaaaah babaaaay medicine here i comeeee

 

[FMLizard]

Docs have such a false image of MBA programs. Our average salary coming out of my school, a top-20 insitution with 100% placement before this year's disaster economy, was around 70K, in a big city. The average MBA will top out around 100K, save for a select few that make it big entreprenurially or become the chosen ones at their companies. The average starting dentist will hit close to 100K the first day out, as an associate. The average doc, after residency, will be pulling around 150K, if you averaged all the specialties. The average MBA, even from an elite school, doesn't make nearly as much as you think, especially if they stay out of I-Banking and are in a down economy.

 

[bigapple]

oh god, can we just stop making these silly comparisons? i'm going into medicine, but my father is an orthodontist, so i can never say that a doctor is "better" than a dentist, because that would just belittle my father's career--and believe me, he works his a$$ off. these are two different and distinct fields but do share common ground: both help people through healthcare.

people who say that they wouldn't go into dentistry because dentists can't save lives, and that their jobs are boring, is so self-righteous. you might as well say that you want to be an MD because you want to let everyone know how much more important you are then them...and in that case, it's not just dentistry that you're talking down to, but nearly every profession that exists.

the truth of the matter is that dentists and doctors do different things, they train for different aspects of healthcare, and different people aspire to either profession based on what they would like to do in life. so stop trying to make people feel bad for the career choices they make.

 

[pathstudent]

Using your logic.

Then we can go ahead and group Chiros, Massage Therapists, Accupuncturists, PAs, MDs, DOs, Dentists, Podiatrists, Herbalists, etc, etc...

all together.

And in sense they are. But an MD is the biggest committment and demands the most dedication.

 

[blackbird03]

its that kind of elitist attitude that make patients hate their docs

 

[DW]

 

[Desdemona]

Another controversial thread that has NO point. Can't believe I wasted my time reading it and actually posting this.

 

[Jtak]

i heard dentists commit suicide often.

sorry but i thought i'd add my pointless 2 cents to this pointless thread. no one cares.

 

[pathstudent]

My mistake.

DOs do have the same committment as MDs.

Sorry about that. My doc is a DO and he is a really cool guy.

 

[lotanna]

Blah blah
My best friend is in dental schl and I've spent a lot of time around him to know that dentistry is far from what others make of it. Seen a dentist work with their hand...talk about manual dexterity

 

[StarGirl]

i'm sorry, i am a dental student and this post was very offensive. first of all, I'm at Columbia dental school and we take just about every single class the med students take (minus their clinical courses which are basically a joke... and Neuroanatomy but we learn everything we need in Neurosci for it anyways) On top of the medical classes we take NUMBEROUS dental courses (including our dental labs, which are very time consuming, our dental didatic courses and also more basic science courses).

Dentist are THE FRIST to detect most diseases. Dentist know and learn just about everything (other than the clinical stuff) that MDs learn. Dentistry is just like any other speciality in med (ex. internal med, neuro, dematology, cardiology etc etc).

oh and about that MBA thing...if I want to I CAN do an MBA dual degree (and many other dental schools offer this as well) and COLUMBIA IS ONE OF THE TOP 15 MBA SCHOOL!

we're all in the health profession for a reason and if it's for the money...we're definately in it for the wrong one... you don't go into 250K debt in hopes that you'll have a successful practice...

 

[phar]

Originally posted by pathstudent
1) You will rarely, if ever, safe a life (even a pathologist who never sees a patient saves more lives by making diagnoses that dictate treatment, such as removing a person's colon or starting chemo)
2) It is not as interesting
3) You are more of a slickster businessman than a healer
4) every dentist I have ever had has been like Ned Flanders
5) It is not as comprehensive as medicine
6) You don't have to be as dedicated
7) You don't get to do a long and intense residency
8) You don't get to see the wonder of a baby's first minutes.
9) You don't get the honor of being with people in their last minutes
10)You will never run "a code", see an ED thoracostomy and perfrom cardiac massage, or put in a chest tube.
11)You will never get to be awake at 3 am with someone when they are suffering or need help.

Need I say more.

If I wanted to make huge money, I would have gone to a top 15 MBA program, only put in two years, and made more money and had more benefits than any doctor or dentist.

Ya, there many negative things about Medicine. So. it is your call.

Plus, this thread is stupid. It seems like you have been rejected by a dental school and now you are posting your anger

 

[lotanna]

Originally posted by StarGirl
i'm sorry, i am a dental student and this post was very offensive. first of all, I'm at Columbia dental school and we take just about every single class the med students take (minus their clinical courses which are basically a joke... and Neuroanatomy but we learn everything we need in Neurosci for it anyways) On top of the medical classes we take NUMBEROUS dental courses (including our dental labs, which are very time consuming, our dental didatic courses and also more basic science courses).

Dentist are THE FRIST to detect most diseases. Dentist know and learn just about everything (other than the clinical stuff) that MDs learn. Dentistry is just like any other speciality in med (ex. internal med, neuro, dematology, cardiology etc etc).

oh and about that MBA thing...if I want to I CAN do an MBA dual degree (and many other dental schools offer this as well) and COLUMBIA IS ONE OF THE TOP 15 MBA SCHOOL!

we're all in the health profession for a reason and if it's for the money...we're definately in it for the wrong one... you don't go into 250K debt in hopes that you'll have a successful practice...

dont mind the poster. This is SDN remember 😛
My best friend is at U of Mich dental schl, and I've spent a lot of time helping him out in lab to know that even 1st 2 yrs are more tedious than a lot of med schls.

 

[pathstudent]

Why would you be offended by this. This is in response the some guys "why would you want to study medicine over dentistry?" post.

I think mine is less offensive than his as his big point is that you will have so much more free time and don't have to work as hard and can make so much more as a dentist.

Well I don't care about those things. I want to work hard, whatever money comes will come, and I think there is something to be said in being more accountable to patients and not just worried about my free time. It is about service and alturism, not "what's in it for me".

So go read the other post and then read mine again. Then read Dentalvibe's response to my reasons why medicine is better and you will see how shallow he is.

 

[pathstudent]

By the way Dentist aren't the first to make the diagnosis with most diseases as you say. There are some systemic diseases where oral manifestations and those might be found by a dentist first. (i.e buccal candida is a possible presentation in a new type diabetic necessitating referral to an MD, but the most common way is for them to present in DKA in the ER or clinic).