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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People believe MDs are the only "real" doctors because they are in awe of medical doctors.  They are projected as almost God-like in the media and popular culture.  They're smart, they went to med school, they have high salaries.

In contrast to the MD, people just draw a blank when it comes to say, number theory, philosophy of mind or the history of science.

MDs are seen as the pinnacle of professional accomplishment.  Parents fantasize about their children becoming physicians or maybe lawyers rather than mathematicians, philosophers, historians etc.  Even though the PhD is the pinnacle of academic accomplishment.  In the common mind, the doctors and lawyers are the "elite" with the "hard schooling", the PhD's just know a lot of arcane stuff that's use of no practical use.

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No one sees an MD as a pinnacle of accomplishment anymore- times have changed. It’s not a very attractive field anymore. [/quote]

+1. Most doctors are idiots in my experience. Combined with their arrogance, I have little to no respect for them at all.[/quote]

There you go again.[/quote]

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