Do they really look down on you...

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...if you go to med. school?

as of now I plan on applying to osteopathic med. schools when I am 25 (I am 20 now). I have heard from a few people that other nurses and medical professionals look down on you if you go to med. school after becoming a nurse.

Is this true?

This is just a stupid question....sorry

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This is just a stupid question....sorry

why is it stupid? i have heard it from SO many people.

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This is just a stupid question....sorry

I have always been told the stupid question is the one unasked...it's not stupid, it's just that most around here don't have such hang ups. I am sure there are some who do. That's what makes this big ol' blue marble so interesting to live on. diversity of ideas.

to the OP, I would say the ones who have a problem are envious. And that is their problem!!

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...if you go to med. school?

as of now I plan on applying to osteopathic med. schools when I am 25 (I am 20 now). I have heard from a few people that other nurses and medical professionals look down on you if you go to med. school after becoming a nurse.

Is this true?

One of the BEST MDs I work with was a nurse first - she really "gets it" with her patients, and she's got the greatest bedside manner...no doubt from her nursing background. She seems to be well respected among her peers - It makes no sense to me why she would ever be looked down on .....she's got extra insight in care for her patients and other health care team members:twocents:

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Specializes in med-surg 5 years geriatrics 12 years.

I agree with hikernurse; the two MDs I have worked with who started out as nurses were GREAT !! They actually listened and encouraged questions from the nursing staff. Not a stupid question at all.

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Specializes in Emergency Room.

if i worried about what people thought of me i would not be where i am today. and why would someone "look down" on you anyway??? you have just as much a right to advance your education as the next person. good luck.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac.

Do you care?

Lot's of people think I'm an abomination because I'm gay. I've long given up caring what people think of me. It's none of my business what they think.

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I don't know why I worry about it. It seems like such a big deal to everyone else I have talked to. My adviser and a few of my teachers have told me not to tell anyone that I plan on going to med school. They said that people look down on it because I would be leaving a perfectly good profession and that a nursing education would be wasted on me if I was just going to go to med school.

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I've seen 2 people that got looked down on but that was their own fault. When they came through on their residency they treated the nursing staff like crap. They expected to be waited on hand and foot. They wanted everything done IMMEDIATELY even if someone else was dying. They got mad when you paged them. They seemed to have totally forgotten what it was like to be a nurse and wanted the staff to be their handmaidens.

As long as you treat everyone with respect once you leave nursing you should probably be ok.

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Specializes in MPCU.
I don't know why I worry about it. It seems like such a big deal to everyone else I have talked to. My adviser and a few of my teachers have told me not to tell anyone that I plan on going to med school. They said that people look down on it because I would be leaving a perfectly good profession and that a nursing education would be wasted on me if I was just going to go to med school.

That is a good point. Not that they would look down on you, but a different path to medicine would probably be more efficient.

If it's the scope of practice, then nursing scope can expand into most areas of medicine as a NP or CRNA.

I see the medical approach to patients as very different from nursing.

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Most nurses that I have known that have went to medical school have been darn good doctors because they have seen both sides of the bed. You always have some that act like God but that is the way it is.

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Specializes in Home Care, Hospice, OB.

lot's of people think i'm an abomination because i'm gay. quote]

we all know you are a happy, upbeat guy! why would that be an abomination????:yeah:

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