Friction

If you've been a pre-med working in laboratories, or a medical student working in a laboratory and have gotten rude comments about "doctors not being smart enough to do research," or "not everyone can do science," or "doctors suck at research" when careers are being discussed, be sure to leave some comments on here.  Throughout undergrad, I've met a ton of PhDs who strongly dislike medical professionals for some weird reason, and who feel so awesome when they badmouth doctors.  It's pretty weird and unprofessional.

You never hear PhDs say that when there's an MD in the room, or when they're at a conference, it's always from the privacy of their lab and amongst themselves.  I worked in a lab with a medical school reject (post-doctoral researcher then) and it was incredibly annoying, especially when he went on long rants about how "all doctors are jerks and always need to be called 'Doctor,' and only care about their professional image."  Seriously. 

I'm just glad to be out of that environment and going into one that respects physicians a little more.  "Not everyone can do science,"  really?  Cool, well let's take the transient off the street to perform your bypass surgery tomorrow morning.  What some people say is a total eye-roll. 


If you're a PhD reading this and share the the same biased thinking as other anti-MD researchers, please grow up.

Thanks for reading, I rather needed to vent, hah.