Originally Posted by
northwestdc10
Hoss, as a current undergraduate who has done a lot of research and is looking at medical school, I just felt inclined to call out some misleading things in your posting.
northwestdc10 -
I see that you are new to the forums.
One thing for certain on APC is that FACTS are NOT necessary in these forums.
The fact that you have current experience in the search for medical school counts for nothing. The fact that someone in Hoss' story might be on the outlying fringe of higher debt makes that person's situation the norm. The fact the Hoss heard this from someone makes it more truthful than anything that you might have personally experienced yourself and certainly more truthful than any studies.
Soon enough medicine will consist of basically the super rich who can afford to get into it, and the heavily indebted who are screwed, with a few military.
Well that sounds familiar.
...but just wanted to make sure others didn't think it was quite at that doom and gloom point yet. There are still ways to make a good career out of it, but they are becoming more elusive every year.
This post hasn't even scratched the surface of doom and gloom yet!
northwestdc10 - you will have missed some of the sarcasm in my post above and will think me crazy after reading my first paragraph, but the more you read these threads if you stick around APC you might begin to see the method to the madness.
Good luck in the search for the Med school path.
If you also have that love of aviation - being a military flight surgeon is one path to combining both with many of the aforementioned benefits.
USMCFLYR