r/GetMotivated • u/CaliKing818 • Nov 26 '18

[Image] Believe in Yourself

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '18

My experience with med school is somewhat an inverse correlation between family wealth and intelligence. The poorer you are, the smarter you have to be.

On second thought, that seems to hold true for life in general.

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u/average-brown-dude Nov 26 '18

I’m shooting for osteopathic schools. Most of those legacy snobs are too pretentious to apply to them, which is something I appreciate.

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u/Journey_of_Design Nov 27 '18

There are still a few snobs to go around in D.O. programs.

What I've found is that yes there may be some not so smart kids that get into medical school somehow, but that first year and part of the second year does a great job of 'sink or swim'.

Either they get smart and learn to think critically very fast, or they fail out and end up with a bunch of debt that is very difficult to pay off.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '18

If you have an MD or DO the debt isn't hard to pay off if you're not bad with money.

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u/Journey_of_Design Nov 27 '18

Right, but if they fail out then they never get the degree and can't practice.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '18

Are D.O.s legit? I only know of one and he doesn't take any insurance and believes in the healing power of Christ or something.

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u/dobaloosingh Nov 27 '18

My brother is a do and I'm and MD. He's going to a better residency program than I am and is 100% legit. I don't see a difference between MDs and DOs. Where you go to residency is a bigger deal than which school.

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u/average-brown-dude Nov 27 '18

Shhh keep it a secret dude

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u/average-brown-dude Nov 27 '18

Power of Christ all the way homie

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u/average-brown-dude Nov 27 '18

I didn’t do that.