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dude pals should I have gone to med school?

The older I get the more ridiculous this law nonsense gets
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
No, I did. Medical school is fucking gay
Shaky Histrionic Place Of Business Market
  04/24/17
Problem with medical school is you basically roll the dice o...
topaz talented mexican circlehead
  04/24/17
It depends. Are you a second generation model minority obses...
violent plaza legal warrant
  04/24/17
i am not
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
It just seems like it would have been a better career
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
it would have been objectively better than law, yes.
Khaki misunderstood orchestra pit
  04/24/17
the docs i know make so much more than me and my lawyer pals...
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
flaming too hard brother. unless your parents pay for school...
Honey-headed fighting abode fat ankles
  04/24/17
eh, seems like the FP guys i know do better than most lawyer...
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
And its like, what are they contributing to the world of JUR...
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
they get automatic bar admission in 17 states when they get ...
Khaki misunderstood orchestra pit
  04/24/17
thats another thing, they don't have to take a separate bar ...
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
I think medicine would have suited my ADD riddled brain more...
snowy splenetic location
  04/24/17
You should have gone into med sales and been a chad
Vermilion Adventurous Queen Of The Night Office
  04/24/17
what i really should have done was gone to med school throug...
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
All professions are flame hth
Floppy harsh jew
  04/24/17
you seem dumb, obviously you have to make a living. that nec...
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
comprehension error, please keep steering the unimaginative ...
Floppy harsh jew
  04/24/17
yeah dude, maybe i should have been a garbageman making 200k...
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
Do you understand that this mentality that you have is why y...
Floppy harsh jew
  04/24/17
ok fair enough. Im 10 years out of LS man. Been doing this a...
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
there's really no right answer.. at this point you're probab...
provocative yarmulke filthpig
  04/24/17
yeah that is true. I'm a bit long in the tooth to be going b...
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
no im in med school
provocative yarmulke filthpig
  04/24/17
oh i see, what speciality you thinking of?
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
surgical subspecialty
provocative yarmulke filthpig
  04/24/17
dick surgeon, ortho or ent?
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
Don't go to med school because you think it might be 'a bett...
massive kitty round eye
  04/24/17
so what would like, be a "not dumb" reason to go? ...
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
A good reason to go would be genuine excitement for medicine...
massive kitty round eye
  04/24/17
this is why i love this site. Now I feel less shitty about m...
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17
A lot of docs who went into medicine to go with the flow, fo...
massive kitty round eye
  04/24/17
I dunno man. I read house of god a long time ago. That book ...
Cerebral hospital
  04/24/17


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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:14 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

The older I get the more ridiculous this law nonsense gets

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150324)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:15 PM
Author: Shaky Histrionic Place Of Business Market

No, I did. Medical school is fucking gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150331)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:16 PM
Author: topaz talented mexican circlehead

Problem with medical school is you basically roll the dice of where you end up living because of the residency matching.

Not worth it for me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150338)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:16 PM
Author: violent plaza legal warrant

It depends. Are you a second generation model minority obsessed with finding the guaranteed path to wealth and status?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150344)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:17 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

i am not

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150351)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:16 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

It just seems like it would have been a better career

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150346)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:17 PM
Author: Khaki misunderstood orchestra pit

it would have been objectively better than law, yes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150354)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:17 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

the docs i know make so much more than me and my lawyer pals. Granted their schooling seems way harder and then they have to do residency.

and I'm not talking about specialists here either. It seems like even the standard primary care IM and FM guys do way better than us

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150356)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:31 PM
Author: Honey-headed fighting abode fat ankles

flaming too hard brother. unless your parents pay for school or you're a super entrepreneur family med is not exactly​ a high earning career

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150491)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:38 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

eh, seems like the FP guys i know do better than most lawyers. Certainly would help to have parents paying for school though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150567)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:22 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

And its like, what are they contributing to the world of JURISPRUDENCE. Almost nothing really

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150394)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:24 PM
Author: Khaki misunderstood orchestra pit

they get automatic bar admission in 17 states when they get their MD

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150409)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:28 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

thats another thing, they don't have to take a separate bar for each state like we do. Thats another ridiculous thing about this profession.

I don't know if I could get through their schooling though. Thats the problem.Residency also sounds terrible. But at least at the end of all that you've got an MD and a board certification.

What do we have? A pen and a stack of useless papers? We barely even have papers anymore, what with the internet

SAD

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150453)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:34 PM
Author: snowy splenetic location

I think medicine would have suited my ADD riddled brain more than white collar drudgery

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150523)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:34 PM
Author: Vermilion Adventurous Queen Of The Night Office

You should have gone into med sales and been a chad

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150533)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:42 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

what i really should have done was gone to med school through the army. Apparently they pay for the whole thing. I suppose i could always do jag if i wanted to go the mil route and use the law degree

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150607)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:43 PM
Author: Floppy harsh jew

All professions are flame hth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150614)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:44 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

you seem dumb, obviously you have to make a living. that necessitates working.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150627)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:45 PM
Author: Floppy harsh jew

comprehension error, please keep steering the unimaginative towards 400k debt.

Oh, you're OP and looking for a "grass is greener" reinforcement.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150637)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:46 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

yeah dude, maybe i should have been a garbageman making 200k right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150654)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:48 PM
Author: Floppy harsh jew

Do you understand that this mentality that you have is why you're in this position, asking XO if you got JDfukked?

I'm not trying to start a fight. I'm just saying I know plenty of miserable, middling doctors who are drowning in more debt than my LS classmates. What year are you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150672)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:50 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

ok fair enough. Im 10 years out of LS man. Been doing this a while.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150692)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:45 PM
Author: provocative yarmulke filthpig

there's really no right answer.. at this point you're probably too late anyway so no use in thinking what if

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150641)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:47 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

yeah that is true. I'm a bit long in the tooth to be going back for another degree at this point. Are you a jag?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150657)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:50 PM
Author: provocative yarmulke filthpig

no im in med school

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150687)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 3:51 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

oh i see, what speciality you thinking of?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150697)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 4:03 PM
Author: provocative yarmulke filthpig

surgical subspecialty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150799)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 4:09 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

dick surgeon, ortho or ent?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150856)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 4:23 PM
Author: massive kitty round eye

Don't go to med school because you think it might be 'a better career' than law. That's dumb. Or for the money, which is even dumber.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33150961)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 4:30 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

so what would like, be a "not dumb" reason to go?

what if went through the army? would that still be dumb?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33151014)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 4:41 PM
Author: massive kitty round eye

A good reason to go would be genuine excitement for medicine.

I hear shitty things about Tricare, nor have I heard of many people who love practicing army medicine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33151089)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 4:46 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

this is why i love this site. Now I feel less shitty about my choices that led me to law

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33151126)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 4:55 PM
Author: massive kitty round eye

A lot of docs who went into medicine to go with the flow, for career stability, for money, or for prestige lmao, want to leave the field by mid-career, if not sooner, except they can't because of sunk costs.

Practicing medicine means you deal with shitty patients, shitty hours, shitty insurance companies, shitty allied professionals, and all around shittiness. You need intrinsic motivation to keep you going.

Of course, you shouldn't take an internet rando's words for it, so I suggest you read some books like The House of God (outdated but still good), or The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly. The second book was written by a guy who was doing Internal Medicine residency at Columbia when he stuck himself with a needle containing his HIV+ patient's blood. Good times!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33151195)



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Date: April 24th, 2017 5:15 PM
Author: Cerebral hospital

I dunno man. I read house of god a long time ago. That book was way more interesting than any book I ever read about the practice of law or law school.

Paradise General is another good medicine book. Its about an FP doc who joins the army reserve and gets deployed to iraq.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3594161&forum_id=2#33151379)