DPM to DOby Osteodog (no login)Whew! I’m genuinely impressed with the US student loan system! It’s really a great thing they have those easy loans for the professional students! I just wonder how many in your high school class will be retired by the time you get to working? Lol! Nothing like getting an early start on life! Personally, if anyone wanted a MD degree, regardless of their undergrad GPA or MCAT, they could go over seas and get one. It's really common! I wonder how many DOs ditched their occupation, back in the day, because they wanted to be MD's before the DO degree was widely accepted? I wonder if you would have been one of them? It certainly would have been a test of real character! I just won’t tell you that the DO grads are still looked down on by tons and tons of MDs because I wouldn’t want you to have potential DO demons to fight off! I hope you aren't coming back here in 10 more years and saying that you ditched the DO degree to go for the golden MD in the Caribbean! Because personally, I don't know which would be worse, exorcising podiatry demons or paying back all that debt at age 50+! Great to hear you are finally getting ahead in life and are accomplishing something worth bragging about! I was pretty surprised that I still qualified for loans. With interest, my podiatry loans are over 200k. After DO school, I'll be about another 120k in debt. But none of that fazes me. I didn't get out of podiatry to go into osteopathic med school for money. I did it because it was what I wanted to do. Fortunately, I'm married to someone who makes coin so I don't have to worry about supporting myself for the next 6 years or so. The bottom line is that I felt that podiatry offered a limited medical education that prepared you to be something between a doctor and a "practitioner". It's just my belief that if you don't have the education and/or license to practice medicine on the whole body you aren't a true physician. There were too many "buts" in podiatry. Too many things that fell short of being a "real" doctor. I do think that DPM's are real doctors, but they aren't physicians. I just didn't like the limbo feeling and I didn't like the intellectual and practical restrictions placed on me. I also got sick of patients and the medical profession in general second guessing my education and aptitude. I don't mind being back in the thick of it. Life is learning until you die. It doesn't matter if it's formal learning or informal. Formal learning just costs more. from IP address 69.234.107.233 Goto Forum Home |
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