Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
First, I never said airline pilots ARE doctors. Obviously we are not, we are pilots.
If they required a heart surgeon to just study stuff that applies to that specialty and not stuff like gynogology, their schooling would probably be cut in half. Most of the stuff we study will be used for the rest of our careers.
Nice rationalisation. Not!
That's the thing about medicine. You have to become a Doctor first before specializing in other fields. That's because, regardless of your specialty, your dealing with a human body where anything can happen. Yeah, you might be a gynecologist but you better be qualified to recognize and treat your patient if she has a heart attack in your care. Kinda like, you might be an airline pilot flying from A to B. Just because you don't teach stalls on a daily basis like a CFI, you better know how to recognize and recover from one.
Even if you could cut the required med exams in half, the amount of study would still make your ATP test prep book look like a kiddies puzzle book by comparison.
AL