nevertrustanyone may have a paranoid personality disorder...
I've always believed you were a Doctor.
It is
NOT that difficult to become a Doctor, especially if you go the simple route (i.e. Internal Medicine) and stick to city/state schools for both undergrad and med school. That way your debt is practically zero and your competition while getting through premed courses isn't as fierce and due to attending city/state schools, the curriculum is always watered down as compared to high-end private schools (big name schools). Also, stick to internal medicine and you will train alongside Caribbean med school graduates and while the starting pay after residency will be around 150K (with malpractice covered), you have the prestige of being a Doctor and get the perks that come with it (license plate that says MD, cute credit card with MD after your name, prescriptive privileges etc.).
What is difficult is to become a Doctor (MD or DO) and then go on to do a surgical residency (5 extra years) and then maybe an extra specialized surgical residency like say Neurosurgery or Cardiothoracic surgery (both of which are an extra 2-3 years of training on top of the 5 year surgical residency).
When you look at what those guys go through in terms of training here in the USA, it becomes a bit ridiculous.
For a Cardiothoracic surgeon, you have to put in:
4 years of undergrad + 1 year in between to apply for med school + 4 years of Med School + 5 years of general surgery residency + 3 years of CT surgery residency = 17 years of training!!
That's pretty crazy.. Now if you go the Internal Medicine route, it would be WAY easier:
4 years undergrad + 1 year in between to apply for med school + 4 years of med school + 3 year residency = 12 years (not terrible)
So do I believe you? You betcha!
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