What Will Be Obvious After Tonite

[kentuckyrosesinmay]

I'm sorry, but I don't want anyone with less than a 3.45 GPA in their undergraduate program even being given the opportunity to go to any kind of med school, OD school, PharmD school, Dentistry school...etc. Doctors already screw up enough as it is...

UNC Chapel Hill statistics

Average entering medical school GPA: 3.65
Average entering PharD school GPA: 3.5

I don't think that is too outrageous. If it was really that competitive, shouldn't the GPAs be higher? Our medical school is #2 in the nation for primary care. #23 in the nation for research. Our pharmacy school is number 4 in the nation.

I am not full of ****. I studied Medical Geography intensively last semester with one of the best professors in the country. She was the first ever to receive a doctorate in that field, and has also taught at UCLA. I learned the demographics of disease throughout the world, and the United States has far more degenerative health problems and psychiatric health problems than the other countries that you mentioned. As a scientist, I ask why? What is the significance of the statistics, and what are the reasons behind the statistics. Statistics are often biased and meaningless, just as maps are... The numbers aren't that important unless you also look at the reasons why, and do your own research. I'll give you an example of the shortage of doctors. There is a big shortage of ODs and ophthamologists right now. In GA, there is 1 OD per 10,000 patients. There just aren't a lot of people that go into those fields. It has nothing to do with the AMA limiting applicants to go into optometry or ophthamology.

And I think that you have a psychiatrist mixed up with a psychologist. Psychiastrists prescribe medications, interpret electroencephalograms...etc.(let's see a nurse do those things). Psychologists are your counseling doctors. Psychiatrists are the ones that take care of people in mental institutions, and those that have diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder...etc. They are very much needed in our society.

Nurse anesthetists make over 200,000 dollars a year. PA's make 100,000+ dollars a year. They went to school longer, so they are compensated for their work. MDs go to school for 12+ years, so they should be compensated for the extra training. If a nurse goes to school for more than 4 years, they should be compensated for the extra training. Anyone that has eight years of official training is considered a doctor. In no way should a nurse ever be able to prescribe medications because they would have to go to school for that long to be able to do it, which=doctor.

Also, colleges are not equipped to handle but a certain number of entering medical school students. Even huge medical colleges like Duke and Chapel Hill have to limit the number of applicants because there isn't enough equipment, enough space, or enough other doctors to take the time out of their work days to teach more students. These doctors need to be seeing patients with the shortages. Plus, who in their right mind wouldn't want to limit the applicants to the exceptional individuals? I don't want some dumb ass working on me or doing my surgeriesIt is an intensive program. Very intensive, and it should be.

Otherwise, who cares about all the people's lives that they would **** up by prescribing wrong medications and making wrong diagnoses right? (being sarcastic)

I asked my mom if doctors should make every bit of money that they make (I asked her because she works with them 5 days a week), and she said absolutely. They put in the time, they dedicated their lives, they went to college for that long, many of them work 80+ hours a week, and they should make the kind of money that they do. So, I don't think that it is right for anyone who doesn't know about the profession to be bad mouthing doctors just because they make more than the average person, and because they are against universal health care since it would make their jobs a lot more difficult for less pay.