Y'all ever think that 50% of your Doctors, Graduated...

[Doug]

in the bottom half of their class ?

Somebody had to, same for lawyer, engineer ,etc !

I'm sorry PO69, this will develop into an attack against you.... like every thread does... but not my intent. I'm OK with you.

 

[bellyputter]

I definitely graduated in the bottom of my class at OU. The amazing thing is I graduated.

 

[HinesWard86]

Bottom 50% at a top tier med school is way better than valedictorian at some Nova Southeastern bullshit. If your doc graduated from Nova Southeastern and wasn't cum laude, it's as good as a shaman from the Congo helping you.

 

[bellyputter]

The top 5%-10%, never got their dick wet.

 

[quantumleap]

Not all of the bottom 50% make it in medicine very long. Just because they graduate from med school doesn't automatically make them a doctor for life. Some flunk out of their residency.

 

[bilbal]

in the bottom half of their class ?

Somebody had to, same for lawyer, engineer ,etc !

I'm sorry PO69, this will develop into an attack against you.... like every thread does... but not my intent. I'm OK with you.

The bottom half of a med school class won't even make it into a residency program and never get a license to practice. Lawyers in the bottom half usually don't pass their bar exams to get licensed. Shrinks who could never pass a board exam to get licensed just call themselves "retired".

 

[Doug]

The bottom half of a med school class won't even make it into a residency program and never get a license to practice. Lawyers in the bottom half usually don't pass their bar exams to get licensed. Shrinks who could never pass a board exam to get licensed just call themselves "retired".

If you graduate from a recognized medical school in the US, can't you just go into private practice immediately ? ( provided you have the start-up monies for an office, staff,etc.)

 

[Doug]

How about if you somehow passed the bar exam without going to law school. Can you then call yourself an attorney, and hang a shingle, start your practice ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale

 

[bilbal]

If you graduate from a recognized medical school in the US, can't you just go into private practice immediately ? ( provided you have the start-up monies for an office, staff,etc.)

They need a license from the state they are practicing in.

 

[Biggamer3]

How about if you somehow passed the bar exam without going to law school. Can you then call yourself an attorney, and hang a shingle, start your practice ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale

OMG this was fucking brilliant:

One of Abagnale's famous tricks was to print his account number on blank deposit slips and add them to the stack of real blank slips in the bank. This meant that the deposits written on those slips by bank customers ended up going into his account rather than that of the legitimate customers. He took in over $40,000 by this method before he was discovered. By the time the bank began looking into his case, Abagnale had collected all the money and had already changed his identity.

 

[HisIsTheHand]

Thus the phrase.....

"doctors practicing medicine"

 

[billsfan]

Bottom 50% at a top tier med school is way better than valedictorian at some Nova Southeastern bullshit. If your doc graduated from Nova Southeastern and wasn't cum laude, it's as good as a shaman from the Congo helping you.

I work with a guy whose famous statement about NOVA is, "If you got the cash, we got the degree." LOL I work with alot of people who receive their doctorate degree from Nova, and a majority do it freaken onlinehno:

 

[patrick7033]

With lawyers; however, most that graduate in the bottom half of a bad school never pass the BAR so that's a comforting feeling. My Brother went to law school at Duke (top tier), and over 90% of the grads passed the BAR on their first or second try. At a lower tier school, sometimes the BAR pass rate is 40% or even lower.

So at least we don't have too many terrible lawyers guys,

 

[ChristianTroy]

I prefer the bottom, let them do all the work, IMO...................

 

[Doug]

With lawyers; however, most that graduate in the bottom half of a bad school never pass the BAR so that's a comforting feeling. My Brother went to law school at Duke (top tier), and over 90% of the grads passed the BAR on their first or second try. At a lower tier school, sometimes the BAR pass rate is 40% or even lower.

So at least we don't have too many terrible lawyers guys,

So then what happens to a guy with a law degree from wherever, that can't pass the bar exam ? I'd think most would eventually pass it ?

 

[LLXC13]

Would be hard to get into Medical School with a low GPA and that tough ass MCAT...