the big question
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Re: the big questionI guess it boils down to the doctor having more power. If you want to make sure that YOU are (eventually) going to be the person who decides what is going to be done you will have to become a doctor.
As far as I am informed nurses are allowed to do much more in the UK than in Germany so I guess that can be an option, but if you want to be able to make a scientifically based decision I guess doctor is the better option. -
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Re: the big questionYou're so right. Law sounds terribly boring!(Original post by _GUESS_)
If they had asked me why Law after describing I like to help, work, team up etc. with people - I would just say I don't enjoy Law!!!
I have to laugh at this slightly - my dad's solicitor dropped out of medicine because she totally lacked communication skills and a bedside manner!
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Re: the big question(Original post by Fluffy)
why not a basic science degree - anatomy will give you a better understanding of the human body... ;-)
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OWWW What a mean question...
To the OP - try not to learn questions as most unis look for spontaneous answers. I gave a different answer to that question at every interview I had!
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Re: the big questionI would say a basic science degree would not fulfill my needs to be able to apply my genuine concern for others - the arts side to medicine.(Original post by Fluffy)
why not a basic science degree - anatomy will give you a better understanding of the human body... ;-)
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Re: the big questionThen, back to the start question - why not a nurse. Medicine, espeically in the hospital setting, often means a lack of continuity of care - doctors working patterns etc often mean as a patient you might see 2 different teams and upwards of 10 different doctors... As a nurse, you would have more continuous patient contact, allowing you to see out your 'genuine concern' for others...(Original post by _GUESS_)
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Re: the big questionThere's nothing "basic" about a science degree!(Original post by _GUESS_)
basic science degree
Intercalating is far more difficult than anything I came across in the first two years of medicine - which, to be fair, is basic science. -
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Re: the big questionFear Fluffy , fear fluffy! One way street to rejectionsville(Original post by Fluffy)
Then, back to the start question - why not a nurse. Medicine, espeically in the hospital setting, often means a lack of continuity of care - doctors working patterns etc often mean as a patient you might see 2 different teams and upwards of 10 different doctors... As a nurse, you would have more continuous patient contact, allowing you to see out your 'genuine concern' for others...
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Re: the big questionIt's quite clear that the answers you need are the answers that 'work' but to broaden the discussion...
Twenty years ago there were a lot of opticians around who were registered but not graduates - degrees in optometry are about as recent as degrees in nursing...
One of the reasons why a lot of very able people began applying for optometry at that time is that doctors' hours were still very long and optometry was: working with patients one to one, applying science, diagnosing illness. Optometry was seen by many as 'office hours medicine'. A bit like dentistry without the actual drilling.
Nowadays being a GP is 'office hours' - family friendly - medicine as opposed to A&E type hospital work which is still 'unsocial' if not long hours.
The snag with any of those office hours medicine professions is that they are career limiting, they generally require you to go right back to the first year of the degree to change your work pattern. For example optometrists to a fifteen to twenty minute 'routine' over and over again patient after patient and to gat any variety in your life you have to do a complete career change. I once got sacked because the bloke who hired me did an MBA and left and the new guy closed the business. Another boss was quielty doing forensic science in his own time...
You have a lot of opportunities for career change within medicine and for instance I am registered with a GP I have never met who was the team doctor for the England Football team in Brazil... a long time ago.... but short term job changes crop up all the time.
We joined the navy to see the world and what did we see? We saw the sea.
Join the army travel the world, meet interesting people and kill them.
Become a doctor and ... well working holidays, placements call them what you will... very much easier for doctors... unless you go as a plumber with Challenge Anika. -
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Re: the big questionHowever, I meant that with being a doctor you still have the scientific background as well as the knowledge of the 'human lot', so it gives you diversity, whereas becoming a nurse or having a 'basic' science degree limits what you can do.(Original post by Fluffy)
Then, back to the start question - why not a nurse. Medicine, espeically in the hospital setting, often means a lack of continuity of care - doctors working patterns etc often mean as a patient you might see 2 different teams and upwards of 10 different doctors... As a nurse, you would have more continuous patient contact, allowing you to see out your 'genuine concern' for others... -
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Re: the big questioni hate this question
i've NO idea why i want to be a doctor. i just do.
lol obviously i cannot say this if ever asked in interview
perhaps i just haven't thought about why in depth yet. i should do that one morning, put my ideas to paper or something -
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Re: the big questionResearch nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse consultants, etc. means that this is not the nice safe answer it might have once been... You can thank New Labour for that!(Original post by _GUESS_)
However, I meant that with being a doctor you still have the scientific background as well as the knowledge of the 'human lot', so it gives you diversity, whereas becoming a nurse or having a 'basic' science degree limits what you can do.
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Re: the big questionI have no main reason for wanting to be a doctor. I just do. And I've said that in every single interview, and all of them nodded away to it so there's no reason why you shouldn't say that.(Original post by ph9)
i hate this question
i've NO idea why i want to be a doctor. i just do.
lol obviously i cannot say this if ever asked in interview
perhaps i just haven't thought about why in depth yet. i should do that one morning, put my ideas to paper or something
There's of course lots of things about medicine that really attract me - things I'd be looking for in a career if medicine was somehow impossible, but it's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is about the profession that has fascinated me for years.
