I’m a Doctor, From Chicago, lived in Alabama, Atl, and now Nola, AMA

[DropTopDoc]

3rd and 4th year of medical school involves the exact same structure. Residency is equivalent to a apprentice. You learn also while doing the work. Residency involves specialization. Even if you do family medicine or Med/Peds that still involves a level of specialization. Medical education is incomplete without a residency.

I see you didn’t read my post, you just had a knee jerk response, so i guess i will explain further, when i say we have the residency built in, that means, while you are in school you are working on things you wish to specialize in. when you get to the clinical portion of the program, some choose a specific technique, or sports, or pediatric, or geriatric, or neurology etc

 

[Red11]

I see you didn’t read my post, you just had a knee jerk response, so i guess i will explain further, when i say we have the residency built in, that means, while you are in school you are working on things you wish to specialize in. when you get to the clinical portion of the program, some choose a specific technique, or sports, or pediatric, or geriatric, or neurology etc

3 years of residency x 80 hours per wee= 12480 hours + 4 years of medical school. But nevermind.

I am glad you are a chiropractor but please stop saying it is built in. As though 4th year of medical school does not include electives in things you wish to "specialize" in.

Just wanted to make sure that everyone understood the differences in medicine vs chiro.

 

[DropTopDoc]

3 years of residency x 80 hours per wee= 12480 hours + 4 years of medical school. But nevermind.

I am glad you are a chiropractor but please stop saying it is built in. As though 4th year of medical school does not include electives in things you wish to "specialize" in.

Just wanted to make sure that everyone understood the differences in medicine vs chiro.

I never said ours was the exact same, i just said ours is built in, because we have to have x amount of hours with patient interactions, patient exams, X-rays, adjustments etc,

I said from the get go our education mirrors one another but there are some differences. But ok you got your point out there

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Don't sour this thread mane.

Good looks, OP.

My girlfriend is a Radiologist. Had to take the boards like 3 times.... poor thing. She went to Meharry.

Got to chop it up with the president of the school (Dr Hildreth). Super smart man who dropped nothing but gems and is very down to earth

 

[Kilgore Trout]

You are a chiropractor not a doctor

 

[EBK String]

You are a chiropractor not a doctor

the coli full of hating ass nikkas

 

[DropTopDoc]

You are a chiropractor not a doctor

Show me the proof, then show me your doctorate

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Are most of the women who stop by your office pretty like they show on videos?

 

[funkee]

as an actual MD (i'm an internist/hospitalist in a major hospital system in Texas) i applaud all the work you've put in to get where you are, but your thread title is misleading as hell in referring to yourself as doctor without clarifying that you're not a medical doctor or DO which is what most people assume when they see someone refer to themselves as doctor. When someone says they're going to go see their doctor, they are clearly referring to their MD/DO. If they are going to see their chiropractor, dentist, pharmacist, lawyer, etc, they would refer to that person by that actual educational title and not refer to them as doctor. You should've said that you're a chiropractor from chicago lived in alabama, etc. No disrespect, i'm just keeping it real.

 

[funkee]

thats not a doctor

technically, it is a doctor, but just not in the way in which he is trying to present himself.

 

[funkee]

Yes I’m a Doctor
I’m a Chiropractor

they asked if you're an MD, which you're not. you had a tough educational path, but just be honest about what you actually are/do.

I don’t get what you are trying to get at here. He is a Doctor. Same way DPTs are doctors or Podiatrist are doctors. They are all physicians at the end of the day. He went fours years of undergrad and took four more years in a Chiro school so in the end he is a doctor. He has a doctorate degree that is recognized in all 50 states and by insurance companies.

pure nonsense. everyone wants to be called doctor nowadays without the requisite educational background to justify the typical reverence/reference associated with that term. it's incredibly misleading to patients, especially in the hospital setting. if pharmacists, chiros, dentists, etc want to walk around calling themselves doctor, then i'm relatively indifferent since they technically earned that title. but they need to make it clear to people what they mean when they refer to themselves as doctor. however, no DPT or DNP should dare walk around calling themselves doctor despite their degree title IMO. at the very least, the term physician should be 100% exclusive to an MD or DO who has completed/graduated from an actual accredited medical school. just like the dumb woman last year who got offended and ran to twitter when a flight attendant did not refer to her as doctor. turned out she had a PhD in some Aging nonsense. if a medical emergency happens on a plane or bus or wherever, and someone calls for a doctor, who is going to step up?

 

[Spliff]

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Never understood why one would settle for DC with M.D./D.O. as options. Especially D.O.. It literally covers the same thing as DC, offers privileges and prestige in line with MDs, and isn't bogged down with the "subluxation theory pseudoscience" stigma.

Also, you wouldn't have to be categorized as an alternative medicine practitioner. Gettin lumped up with acupuncturists.

 

[funkee]

this instagram post is so stupidly misleading. it doesn't matter if the total educational hours to obtain a degree are near par to that of an MD or DO degree, what matters more is the content of those hours. the actual educational content/hrs that are learned/required to obtain an MD/DO degree is significantly more tough/intensive. the real trump card, however, is when you then have to do a 3-5 year residency which adds another 12,000 - 20,000 hrs of resident education. not to mention another 2-5 more years of fellowship post-residency if someone specializes even further. it's not even close to being an equivalent education in terms of hrs or educational content. i don't know why some non-MD/DO medical fields have such an insecurity/inferiority complex and can't just stay in their lane. and i'm not trying to belittle non-MDs/DOs, just trying to keep it real for those who may not really know/understand.

 

[invalid]

i don't know why some non-MD/DO medical fields have such an insecurity/inferiority complex and can't just stay in their lane.

I never understood this. I get the impression that the broader medical field, outside of doctors, are some of the most insecure of workers out of all industries. Like why does the field allow folks to put degrees/certifications behind their names?

RN, BSN
MSN, MBA
or
MD, MBA

As a patient, all I care about, or is relevant is the ‘RN’, ‘MD’ or ‘DO’. Everything after that is just flattery and most wont even know for what the acronyms stand further confusing patients.

Outside of MD (Doctor), ESQ (Attorney), CPA (Accountant) folks should really leave the titles/degrees off their names on emails, business cards, etc. It reeks of insecurity.

I work in finance. If we get resumes of folks that have ‘MBA’ after their name, we toss them in the trash.

 

[Prodyson]

There are a bunch of people just claiming that whatever they believe is fact, just because it’s what they believe. The professionals in here are telling you what it is and you still believe what you want to believe because it makes you feel “smart” or something.

Unless another doctor comes in here and proves that a chiropractor isn’t a doctor, I think the guy has provided enough information to take his word over some internet randoms, half of whom just sit in front of a computer all day.

If he’s considered a doctor and PCP by insurance companies, then that’s all that really matters in my opinion.