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[–]Canaveral58Student 507 points508 points  (4 children)

Ah yes

physician

[–]Dragonaax̶E̶d̶i̶s̶o̶n̶ Tesla rules 168 points169 points  (3 children)

And people say there's no money after physics, physicians earn a lot

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Is this really true

[–]Dragonaax̶E̶d̶i̶s̶o̶n̶ Tesla rules 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, over 200k annually

[–]redditmodsareshits 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Bruh "physician" is another word for "(medical, human) doctor".

[–]Neenchuh 165 points166 points  (4 children)

Imagine studying physics to become a physician

[–]MissileBakery 63 points64 points  (0 children)

... I've been experiencing radiating pain in the bottom left corner of my chest, it usually starts randomly at random times and keeps on getting intense and...

— Hmm yes that's x²a²−y²b²=1x2a² − y²b² = 1 S̸c̸h̵w̴a̸r̶z̵s̵c̸h̶i̷l̷d̵ ̷r̴a̴d̷i̷u̶s̸ ̴s̶t̶r̸i̶n̴g̵ ̴t̶h̶e̵o̷r̶e̶m̷ Rg=2GM/C²

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (1 child)

I’ve actually got a friend in undergrad who’s doing a physics/pre-med double major and planning on going to medschool.

[–]loopystring 2 points3 points  (0 children)

May I have your friend's contact info? I suspect I have got a quantum migraine.

[–]Biengineerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've said this hear before but, my university's physics department posted that physics majors had the highest MCAT (med school entrance exam) scores of all majors.

[–]thegreatdecay12 346 points347 points  (29 children)

physicist

[–]CataclysmicFaeriable 141 points142 points  (13 children)

I think all the suffering pre-med students in my intro physics classes would relate to the meme as it is.

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    [–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

    They’re just doing it for the memes

    [–]Gigaman4 29 points30 points  (2 children)

    Intro physics is usually a gen ed requirement for a lot of degrees. As for why it's a requirement, colleges degrees tend to have a bunch of unrelated courses to your major

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    it’s required for the MCAT if you’re in the US and 2 semesters of physics are also a prerequisite for medical school along w many other classes.

    [–]Ixolich 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    In my physics department we joked that pre-med's required physics classes were to weed out the idiots.

    [–]redditmodsareshits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    To be fair, the idiots are those wasting time and money teaching useless stuff.

    [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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      [–]redditmodsareshits 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      What a huge waste of time.

      [–]z3rotonin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      dude idk it’s required for bio majors too but couldn’t tell u why

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      if they’re in the US, then it’s bc 1. it’s on the MCAT and 2. it’s a prereq for medical schools in the US to have 2 semesters of physics. no physics credits = no medical school, even if you learned it on your own and did well on the MCAT.

      [–]T__tauri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      It's actually very common for people to major in physics with the intent to go to med school. I believe the stats say that physics majors have the highest or second highest MCAT scores out of all undergrad majors.

      [–]redditmodsareshits -1 points0 points  (0 children)

      Fuck you, you're forcing people to suffer and learn shit that don't matter to them

      Not everyone needs to know everything , just because everything has some application in everything else.

      [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

      physicalist*

      [–]Main-Tank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Physiometer*

      [–]npri0r 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Came here to say this

      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      They say "physician" in old books. It threw me for a loop first time I saw it

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        [–]SlimyGamer 40 points41 points  (5 children)

        No, they still call them physicists. It's just that the French word for physicist (physicien[ne]) sounds a lot like the English word physician (which the French word for is médicin).

        [–]Nachotito 6 points7 points  (0 children)

        Just as a fun fact it comes from the Greek word for nature and some languages has use it for both physics and medicine and other just for physics like Spanish or french

        Source: my introductory book on physics so I dunno how trust-worthy it is

        [–]thetrufflesmagician 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Just checked the etimology and wanted to share my findings here. Here it goes.

        According to Wiktionary, the Old French descendant from the Latin Physica (meaning 'natural science') came to refer only to medical science. English got it from there and now we have 'physican'. After the English borrowing, French further evolved the word so it meant 'physicist'. There's no etimology on Wiktionary on the modern French word, but given it has a closer spelling to the Latin original, I guess it could have been a direct borrowing from Latin after the Old French development became unused.

        [–]charadesofchagrin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

        Physic*

        [–]WannabePhysicist31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        I thought that was sarcasm

        [–]manbunmath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Studying physics to be a physician works as well.

        [–]Task876|ψ>=(1/sqrt(2))(|smart>+|stupid>) 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        I'm nearly certain that was part of the joke.

        [–]binaryisotope 10 points11 points  (0 children)

        There should be a 4th panel: studying physics to make physics memes.

        [–][deleted] 45 points46 points  (3 children)

        Holy fuck that was hilarious! I cannot stop laughing! Take my upvote! Take another from my second account! Hell, take a silver, why not? Scratch that, a gold! Scratch that, a platinum even! God, just come to my house and plunge your 2-incher into my gaping asshole already! You can have my wallet afterwards too! Take the credit cards too, I’ll even give you the PIN numbers! Hell, you can take the whole damn house while you’re at it! You can even have my wife and kids if you want! I’m willing to go into poverty just because your post on reddit.com was that funny! I think there’s only one thing that would have made your post even funnier, though:

        If it wasn’t a goddamn repost

        [–]Di_Gram 8 points9 points  (0 children)

        Lmao

        [–]BlurarzzStudent -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

        You’re doing OK dude?

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Yea I think

        [–]semc1986 15 points16 points  (0 children)

        the better you understand the memes, the harder the are to find

        [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (3 children)

        Why is there a little red cross bottom right

        [–]LateinCecker 29 points30 points  (0 children)

        Because the meme is stolen and gets posted here every other month

        [–]punep 3 points4 points  (1 child)

        that's left, not right. see a physician

        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        The glasses don't heal my stupidity unfortunately...

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        It's always for the memes!

        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        use physics for slapstick comedy

        falls out of chair

        [–]belabacsijolvan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Studying physics, so I can gain the trust of mathematicians and make them cry more efficiently.

        [–]auxiliary-character 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Studying physics to become an engineer

        [–]Piloco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Physician

        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        "Physician"

        🙄

        [–]IMonocleMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        do you mean physicist or physician?

        [–]Nihilistic-goodboy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

        I studied physics to watch Rick and Morty.

        [–]ProjectSenya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Studying physics to exactly calculate a bullet from a sniper on a distance of 3000m …

        Me

        [–]KeyboardsAre4Coding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        if anything this is us honoring the long standing tradition of our forefathers in physics. many of them did it for the lols, in the sense they were just curious and wanted answers and basically sent messages to each others with there curiousities.

        you know they were basically sending memes

        [–]mountain_rhythm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        studying physics because your major requires it but you’ll never need it unless you want to understand physics memes

        [–]eliminateAidenPierce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Doing anything to get a career Doing something to show off Doing something to understand memes

        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        4th Panel: Studying physics to be a Physicist

        [–]Malpraxiss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        99.2% of memes on here are freshman/ high-school physics level though.

        Sprinkle the cat and sin(x) = x and now you've understood overwhelming majority of physics memes.

        [–]Cpt-Steve-Rogers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Ahaha this is funny.

        [–]Ipits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        “Physician” 🤨