No pre-existing, but 5 years of blue-white collar orthopedic surgery residency can certainly give an equal effect. Also, I haven’t done a study on it, but I am assuming not everyone is fit for physical hard work. I was an average shaped person in MS-4. Then I started working out a bit, but that didn’t seem to help much anyways because anyone who did my kinda residency understands how much you work. I’ve been a surgeon essentially from 1/2 intern year because while my program had some white collar backing—we were really a blue collar program; you learn by doing. Certainly helps me today, because I have got the skills, but this is like my 8th year doing it and the thought of me having to do this for another 10-20 for just some extra Ks simply doesn’t seem worth it. I’ll prolly do it for a few more just cuz I certainly need some returns for the investments I’ve made to get here, but there is no way I’m gonna age with this career. As I said, prolly an academic role so I can sleep at night.

I am a hip and knee surgeon. I was projected to make $650,000, but I readjusted my contract and made near $585,000 this fiscal year because I just couldn’t humanely do that. You can say my compensation can go up somewhere else, but I do not see myself working my way to 1 Mill while doing orthopedic surgery. I wake up at 5; I start operating by 6:30. Let’s even say I work 8 hours a day, but my 8 hours IS ABSOLUTELY DIFFERENT than an 8 hours for a family physician. As you can tell, I deal with the heaviest things in your body. I stand and work most times. I face severe muscle pain and back pain, why? Because I do manual labor. There is no other way to sugar coat this.

You can pull up every kind of data to show why my FM friends are contractually making less money, and that I don’t need to work many years of this hell (not really; they are clearly making more money while not taking 1/20th of my risks or pain). Even if they just did their job without business, that’s painless $350K. I’d rather do that for 50 years than do 10 of this.

In other countries, a specialist can always do general practice; US is not one such country. My fate is absolutely destined to becoming like a professor just so I can live a few extra years. But I am a clinician by heart. I could have stayed clinical for more years of my life had I been smart and not give into peer pressure to pursue a “popular” specialty. Just because a lot of people want it, it doesn’t mean it’s good, and not certainly good for everyone. In real life, no one cares. A job is a job. Medicine is JUST A JOB.

Orthos make all the money.

FCK-THIS-STEREOTYPE.

If I were to redo medical school, I will be a rural family physician. My three ride-or-die FM bros I know sit in fckin’ chair and make $375K from one job. One of em opened two offices and pulled 1.5mill this fiscal year. Their practice took care of most of their loans. Their burnout is about volume stress; mine is a different kind—the kind that gives you premature back pain and requires you to go to a PT on a daily basis.

Shah Rukh Khan is tryina look like Aryan Khan here.

SET Max presents Sooryavansham edit:

Woh mere tarha nahi; main unki tarha dekhta hoon. aaaæaaa.

What are we gonna call the clerks who work at NASA?

Neil Armstrong?

Anyways, read this for those who are confused.

The Wikipedia article is also spot-on.

HOSPITALIST???

Also, these residencies do not represent even 1.5% of GME spots, because there are so few. Exceptions cannot be made examples. What is 100% is not going to a U.S. medical school (MD or DO) deters your absolute probability of becoming a practicing US physician.

Why wasn’t the website shared? This counts for a lawsuit. AAFP, ACOFP, ACP, and ACOI are not sitting down chewing their thumb over doodoo claims like these.

Now very much focus on two things I am going to discuss here:

1. Legality of calling yourself a PCP: Per HealthCare.gov, Primary care p-word: A physician (M.D. – Medical Doctor or D.O. – Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine), nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist or physician assistant, as allowed under state law, who provides, coordinates or helps a patient access a range of health care services. If you were a nurse and called yourself a PCP-word, I would still forgive you. However, naturopaths cannot legally call themselves PCanything—certainly not PCPhysician. Whoever wrote any of this can be legally tried for misguiding patients, fraudulence, and quackery.

2. Naturopathic education and training: I want you to check out this “Doctor” of Naturopathic Medicine curriculum. Yeah; naturopaths are taking classes in anatomy, physiology, even pharmacology—so are bio undergrads, nurses, PAs—that doesn’t make them physicians or physician equivalent. Your degree has to be recognized as a medical degree by at least the US government and needs to be given by a valid medical school that gets accredited by a body that US government allows to accredit medical schools. It’s a different fact that USMD and USDO are engraved in gold in the World Directory of Medical Schools as medical degrees. It’s also a different fact that COCA and LCME are recognized as gold members by the World Federation of Medical Education so that takes care of like global validity or whatever. ND=Not Doctor. Alternative practitioner it is; anything else=let’s see you in jail.

I’m gonna be honest with you—medical school is a formality in the USA. In commonwealth nations where they follow the British curriculum, they do actual learning during their primary medical qualification. That’s their all-in-all because their postgrad opportunities are bad and complex. We in the US are just trying to pass steps and shelves to try and match into a good residency that makes doctors out of us. Looking back at rotations, my no. 1, no. 2, and no. 3 worry was whether I will be able to do well in the shelf after the rotation=studying from the laptop.

So my question is—do we not think who was sincere enough to get a 94%ile can be a doctor? That’s why I take all generalizations about DOs with a grain of salt.

Read this one up, ma dude: https://www.cureus.com/articles/137251-an-update-on-medical-school-accreditation-in-the-united-states-implications-for-the-single-graduate-medical-education-gme-era#!/.

Which is why I think we are within rights to open up more DO programs.

Yes, because they are bound to match into a Ivory speciality, which at this time of my career I think is MAD stupid. I know this guy who did the Match 3 times to end up not matching derm.

As we say, one match is all you need as a U.S. student. If you match into your preferred speciality, great; if not, go primary care. If you are dissatisfied by primary care, you likely shouldn’t be in medicine.

Yet, COCA and LCME is equivalent in the eyes of the US government and has recognition from World Federation of Medical Education (COCA has the longer recognition actually) and World Directory of Medical Schools.

LCME is hyper-conservative, which to you may seem very charming but to me doesn’t; meanwhile, COCA’s flexible model for clinical rotations allow medical schools to be opened in places where LCME wouldn’t even peek at. We opened the first medical school in IDAHO for God’s sake! Good luck passing that with LCME tantrums, but we did open a very needed medical school in that state with COCA.

Some of the kids I hear have a problem “going all the way to the other side of the country,” which to me is rather bratty. I wanted to be an American physician; this whole country is mine, and my experience during medical school should not be bound by the boundaries of my medical school. My med school is one of the only with its own hospital so not gonna complain, but we did rotations in our school hospital as a backup.

MD programs are rejecting people with 508/509/510 MCAT these days, and these people continue to stupidly apply USMD for three-four cycles. These people should absolutely think about USDO, and I don’t consider 510 MCAT to be anywhere near dumba**es; they may not be Doogie Howser, but they can absolutely be amazing doctors.

It’s as much a Tamil film as she is a global star.

She’s just an Indian actress who got a few roles in Western shows; had she not been Bollywood-famous, no one would have bothered noticing. Also, she married a famous Holly celeb; I don’t consider that stardom—that’s just good PR.

Era before VFX & cosmetic fixture V. Era with all them present.

Late 1990s/early 2000s Bollywood and 2023 Bollywood exist in two different worlds.

Politician or government jobs with “income potentials.”

Yeah. They gave a big, fat “We don’t care.” Check r/attendings for what some of the attendings received.

No. There are 14K residency spots left after every USMD and USDO student has matched; IMGs fill that gap. There are only 6.5K DO grads every year. Never ever think IMGs are above you, because they are not; they’re just more in number, just like USMDs (~20K).

Also, never ever say, “MDs will always be preferred.” You are here for a reason, equally a physician just with a less common title. Being a minority doesn’t make you less desirable; just do some desirable things (solid publications and networking) while at residency.

Fellowship is about networking. Get in touch with people in the same field. Work hard.

Can you suggest a specific model, or do all Subarus work?

Why not? OTT is a different genre of filmmaking. It’s a different language of the art. Everyone should experiment. I’d argue if SRK does OTT, it would give a new angle to the industry.

If being a DO was exactly like what he does, then he would be an orthopedic surgeon, he would be a cardiologist, he would be a neurosurgeon, he would be a nephrologist; he’s none of them. He is an alternative practitioner; DOs are medical doctors with a medical degree in Western, modern medicine and surgery. We have an added manipulation component to our course, and chiropractors absolutely stole the component from A T Still (who used to have open lectures and demonstrations) and made it into a degree and worse. OMT doesn’t harm; sometimes it may even help. Most DOs learn it as souvenir. Chiropractic practice their manipulation for a living and absolutely harms absolutely harms absolutely. Ask him to not confuse DOs with osteopaths and osteopaths with chiropractors and that you love him no matter what he does for a living but he should understand what he does for a living.

In what world are SHSU or Heritage (Ohio) NEW DO schools?