*sigh*

[emberlivi]

I received the APMSA minutes today during the lovely meeting. I feel awful, but they can take their multiple alphabetically confusing organization names and shove them so far up their asses it would take surgical intervention to remove them. Maybe if I was 22 and just came from my first degree, I'd still be naive enough to care that other

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[graycie23]

It's sad, really, that so many smart, egotistical jackasses become doctors. People are dumb.

By the way, we had the DO/MD discussion again today - it seems that if you want to be a good doctor, you do fine with a DO (and are probably trained better). If you want a career, you need an MD. There's probably a similar distinction like that for podiatry...

[emberlivi]

Indeed. There should be a nice people club.

I've never heard that. I think it's possible to be a good doctor and to have a career in either.

[graycie23]

I'm not saying it's not possible. And I didn't mean to imply that one was inferior. Hmm. Let me rephrase...or explain where this came from.

We were talking to someone who wanted to go into Public Health and Public Policy. He said that he liked the DO approach to medicine better than the MD one, but as an administrator, an MD would get him in more doors more easily. Same with research. It doesn't invalidate one or the other, just shows inter- and intraprofessional (are those words?) bias

*takes foot out of mouth*

[emberlivi]

Ah, I see. It's a pretty narrow viewpoint, I think. DMU offers masters degrees in public health and health administration. My one DO professor was involved in administration before teaching...or was it while she was teaching. It was in the capacity of an insurance company, I know that much. Of course, not all osteopathic schools are like DMU.

He would be shocked to know the Chief Medical Officer of Broadlawns (a hospital in Des Moines) just happens to be a DPM, hehe. ;)

But wow, someone actually wanting to do administration? Wow. I looked over my friends' finance books (they are in the MHA program) and I had a migraine. It was the first time in my life that I saw a textbook use beige to highlight important topics. More power to the guy.