"Becoming a Doctor is like, 100 times harder than becoming a nurse".

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Specializes in LTC, Acute Care.

I can't be positive, but I detect a hint of something green...

Regardless, you're dissing her for things like her email address. I wouldn't like to see my friend dissing me for things like that for the whole world to see. There are lots of people here with screen names that include RN, LPN, CNA, etc. No biggie.

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my brother is a 1st year med student and it seems like he learns (or is expected to learn) as much (and more) in one week in gross anatomy than i have to learn in A&P in a month. i love the idea of going to med school and i'm not afraid of hard work, but i get scared just thinking about the ridiculous amount of material they are expected to learn in such a short period of time.

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I can't be positive, but I detect a hint of something green...

Regardless, you're dissing her for things like her email address. I wouldn't like to see my friend dissing me for things like that for the whole world to see. There are lots of people here with screen names that include RN, LPN, CNA, etc. No biggie.

Uh oh. Are we getting catty here? LOL.

I considered her a potential friend...as I do many people--considering they are at least somewhat sane ;). Come on now--I barely know this woman. Let's be real. I was just curious about the statement and how docs perceive nurses. I didn't realize it was like that.

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Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

I think in any profession, including nursing and doctoring, there are some that graduate at the top of their class, some who are at the bottom, some who work hard at it, and some don't. How about we all just accept each other for the good we do?

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Specializes in LTC, Acute Care.
Uh oh. Are we getting catty here? LOL.

I considered her a potential friend...as I do many people--considering they are at least somewhat sane ;). Come on now--I barely know this woman. Let's be real. I was just curious about the statement and how docs perceive nurses. I didn't realize it was like that.

MEOW! :typing

Nah, I think many docs are grateful for their nurses and are glad for their knowledge that is attained through hard work on the job, whereas a doctor has a lot of intense schooling and experience in the form of residency to back up that MD or DO degree. To her, she probably couldn't imagine a 2-year degree being only half as hard as her program. Isn't 100 kind of the "go-to" number for exaggeration when you're older than about 7, when the best exaggeration one can come up with is "a bajillion zillion" (case in point - she'd sound silly saying her MD program was a bajillion zillion times harder than a nursing program)?

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Specializes in CTICU.

Why does anyone care what she thinks? Oh well.

Until someone who's done both nursing and medicine comes on to tell us about it, I'll take comparisons with a grain of salt. Even then, the relative difficulty depends on how smart you are, surely.

Medical school is harder than nursing school, no doubt. But I chose nursing because it's DIFFERENT, not because it's easier. I have no doubt I could do medicine easily - I just don't want to. The attitude that one or the other is a "higher" status just annoys me - they are just entirely different careers.

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Specializes in Psychiatric.

I think wholeheartedly that med school is tougher than nursing school. I also think that doctors and nurses are trained to think differently and focus on different aspects of patient care, and that by applying a team approach, the patient reaps the benefit of ALL of our education.

One of my very best friends is a doctor with whom I work. She is brilliant...truly gifted in psychiatry and internal medicine...but she has told me numerous times, and will tell anyone within earshot, 'I can't do this job without EarthChild! We're the best team ever!' I love that.

Maybe your friend is just proud of being a doctor...as she should be. I'm proud of being a nurse...we all worked hard to get where we are. On the other hand, not being there, it's hard to know if she was being snobby or just saying 'yes, it's harder'...I also agree with someone who suggested that saying something is '100 x harder' is a generally accepted terminology.

Anyhow, just my 2 cents' worth! :D

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You should have asked your friend "Full of yourself much?"

It's impossible that becoming a doctor could be literally 100x more difficult than becoming a nurse. There is not a single human being who could endure THAT much difference. If we are speaking of the intelligence required, that would be to say that if the average iq of a nurse is 1, then the average iq of a doctor is 100, which would mean that nurses are retarded. At best, I'd say maybe 5 or 6 times more difficult to become a doctor. Also, different specialites vary in difficulty.

Either way, just because she reverances herself for being a "md" doesn't mean that everyone else has to put her on a pedestal. That's why doctors are paid the BIG bucks, and probably why a lot of them develop the arrogance. Their pay is their reward.

And I must say that if people think doctors are all brilliant, they haven't been around too many doctors. I can think of a couple who are more than a little moronic.

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yea, it kinda chaps me when MD's think that they are so much above everyone else. Especially the baby ones...interns and residents that haven't learned that the nurse can either be your best friend or your worst nightmare and that NO YOU DON"T KNOW IT ALL (neither do we) but at this point in the game chances are that we have one up on them.

One of the BEST 4th year med students that I've seen in a while told us her mom is a critical care nurse and she's heard all the war stories and decided to become a MD. (even more brains and common sense than the resident-seriously!)

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Based on my experience in health care you have some good doctors and you have some idiot ones, the same goes for nurses. It appears that most medical students and interns get training from the nurses. I remember when I was a tech, an intern and I were in a patients room. He was fiddling with a patient's IV. He mentioned aloud "they don't teach you about IVs." My response to him was " Clearly they don't teach you common sense either." I should mention the IV pump was alarming that the IV was occluded, he looked like he was getting ready to discontinue it and start a new one. Not once did he realize that the IV tubing had folded over it self. The look on his face when I unfolded the tubing from itself and the alarm stopped.

As a nurse I had to tell an intern how to explain to a family that their loved one was dying and to answer their questions about code status change.

amazing, doctors graduate from med school , become interns and have their attendings, residents, and nurses to guide them. We as nurses finish nursing school pass the boards, and have to hit the ground running when we are working.

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Specializes in NICU, Post-partum.

I don't think that saying that it's more difficult to become a physician is bashing nursing in any way.

I can tell you now...if I was better at Chemistry and better at Math, I would make the leap in a New York minute.

No way...absolutely no way, could I keep up the schedules that I see medical students keep up.

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

The part I find weird is the "wanting to know your whole life story" And the trying to psycho-analysis. Psychiatrists don't even want to do that these days. Here's a pill. NEXT!!!!

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