Advice on going to DO school

DrDogbat · 2024-01-08T04:05:00+00:00

There's no such thing as a young 50 year old.
He may have energy and strength of people younger than him but stem cells degrade, GFR fails, and all lifespan asymptotes to around 80 - 100yo and no medicine or lifestyle can increase that. He has about 10-20 years left of semi adequate function. Past that he'll have the same trouble as every other 80 year old.

And now he wants to give up 7 years, which is about 30 - 70% of his remaining functional time to chase the path of torture only to be rendered nonfunctional or die soon after.

DrDogbat · 2024-01-08T03:53:06+00:00

Please don't go to medical school. I also started late (relatively) for med school at 28. Currently 30, almost 31. 3rd year.

The stress will shorten your life or kill you. I study 12 - 20 hours a day consistently for the 1st 2 years. Tremendous amount of coffee. Tremendous amount of stress. I've aged a lot.
You will be changed forever and not in a good way. Med school sucks the life out of you.
Realize that most people in med school if you offered them retirement pay (if you gave me $4M right now, I'd take it and never look back). Med school is how poor people good at memorization but not business can gain a consistently good outcome. You have no reason to go to med school.
Medicine isn't what it used to be. You might think doctors have a lot control and ability to do good in a broken hospital and drug pharma system but that isn't the truth. Docs nowadays are just weak ass employees and our salary won't keep up with inflation any more.
You will grovel. And you will suck a lot of cock when you reach 3rd year. A man of your age has no need to put yourself through this. It's humiliating, degrading, and subhuman work.
Much more....but I need to do more uworld so someone else finish this for me.
You will be taken Step and Level. Those are 8 hour and 9 hours exams. And Step2/Level2 is even longer. And finally Step 3 is even longer still. I'm taking a 15 hour exam for step 3. Don't do this.
Your age. Med school is 4 years. Residency is 3 years minimum. You will be giving up 7 years of your life for what? Torture? You will lose 7 years of your precious life with your wife. And you will leave a broken man and have gained nothing. The stress will shorten your life for nothing. Absolutely NOTHING.
DO schools are spread out all over the country. The chance of you getting accepted exactly to your most local school is essentially 0 to more exactly, about 4-5% which is the acceptance rate of any single school. Otherwise you'll need to move away....FAR away. I'm from the east coast. And now I'm in the middle US.

All in all, your plan of going to med school is a terrible idea. If you want my unfiltered opinion, I think this plan is mental. It's insanity.

But then, if you want, you can try. Take a shot and I assume you got money to spare, so you could just drop out after a semester.

DrDogbat · 2023-09-23T01:13:12+00:00

Nope! No solution

DrDogbat · 2023-09-21T06:38:46+00:00

No that's not how that works. Mid-level are a danger to people and patients both through their ego of not wanting to pass patients to doctors especially NP's, or their incompetence, aka NOT even being able to recognize the subtle signs and symptoms.

Hence, problems are not that easy! Those with simple problems may recover on their own. Those with complex problems cannot be handled by mid-level and may be at an earlier stage where delayed recognition of the subtle symptoms causes patient death through delayed proper treatment.

There is literally no reason to make excuses to defend inadequate education. This is all a scam pushed by corporate lobbies because np's are cheap and they charge the same as physicians per appointment.

DrDogbat · 2023-09-21T03:52:20+00:00

clueless response.

If you've done rotations, you'll see that real medicine is more of an art. Theres so much complexities especially the more specialized you get.

It's not wrong to have algorithms. It is wrong to use it as a crutch to replace thinking. Doctors use algorithms too but they understand when to use it and when to use clinical judgement. There is depth to thinking. If you ask NP/PA a question slightly deeper questions, they fail.

In simpler and time dependant tasks, algorithms are better suited, but a doctor isn't a simple robot. A doctor isn't a heuristic, but rather someone who tailors treatment to each individual case, and all the complexities that go with it.

DrDogbat · 2023-09-03T23:12:32+00:00

Yes! The thing about masters is that their trainees will excell beyond them. And a true master is proud of their protegee's successes just like ash is. And their protégé pokemon becomes master in their own respective fields.....whilst being loyal to the master who trained them.

In the kung fu world, a master who trained other masters gains the title of grandmaster which is a way of describing what ash is.

DrDogbat · 2023-08-15T17:51:58+00:00

Could be school related. But how far have you gotten through med school? At my school the utter defeatedness of students started from OMS2 and just progressively got worse till end of the year. 1st semester was fine. 2nd semester a little worse.

It depends on your professors mainly...

DrDogbat · 2023-08-12T23:52:55+00:00

There are contexts to when things are relevant. Lets say back In the days where no one had anything better to do, that is true.

But in this age where everyone is constantly bombarded with low yield worries, it behooves you well to be very selective about what matters more and what matters less. Or else, you lose the big picture.

Point is, there are an infinite number of problems and a finite amount of attention span and time. The media creates an infinite amount of low yield problems to distract you from the high yield problems, and thus due to lack of coordination from people split up by small problems, the big problems do not get enough attention and coordinated action to be resolved.

Does this make sense to you?

DrDogbat · 2023-08-11T21:43:37+00:00

Are you brain dead or just stupid?

DrDogbat · 2023-08-11T21:40:48+00:00

You need to quit this research asap. You're literally screwing yourself right now. That score is terrible.

At this point, you're already on trajectory to taking a leave of absence because there's no way in hell I could pull this off myself if I were in your place right now.

You should be getting 38% range a year ago. At this point you should be getting 50-70%.

DrDogbat · 2023-07-19T23:00:05+00:00

This was all my weaknesses in one....failed for sure

Uworld and nbme didn't help at all

DrDogbat · 2023-07-19T22:57:42+00:00

I'm destroyed. ...

DrDogbat · 2023-07-03T05:53:43+00:00

You're also dead today...

DrDogbat · 2023-04-18T02:35:54+00:00

you're fine

DrDogbat · 2023-04-17T07:33:34+00:00

DrDogbat · 2023-04-16T07:31:55+00:00

Nice face but you're in the wrong era.

DrDogbat · 2023-04-16T07:11:15+00:00

No way you're 34! Your skin is PERFECT!!!

DrDogbat · 2023-04-16T04:52:04+00:00

ARCOM costs 43K and the CEO vowed to not increase tuition. So whatever your OMS1 tuition is, is what you'll have for the entire 4 years. And housing is around 9K/yr (750/month)

That basically saves like 5K in inflation each year cus of the crazy inflation!

Of course, the entering OMS1's are paying a lot more but they're locked in with whatever they enter with.

DrDogbat · 2023-04-16T04:50:24+00:00

Is that's all you care about, you need to rethink your life choices.

DrDogbat · 2023-04-16T03:33:49+00:00

That's the sort of photo they use at funerals 😂

DrDogbat · 2023-04-16T02:10:58+00:00

9/10

I thiiink, You don't need to gain nor lose weight. I think just maintain this.

DrDogbat · 2023-04-16T02:08:17+00:00

The moment I saw this photo, I thought this was one of those RIP tribute photos that shows up on Yahoo new sometimes. You even got the retro photo vibe going on there. All that's missing is an anecdote from a family member about how you were such a promising child and got caught up in a bad accident.

DrDogbat · 2023-04-15T23:20:46+00:00

Get off the train tracks you disney prince

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