yea, a friend of mine from high school went through all of it and became a general surgeon. and i’ve heard stories. that and my experience from dating and living with a CFer lung transplant patient probably gave me as much of an “outsider’s view” of the medical/hospital industry as one could possibly have

the MD=pedestal thing died for me long ago

i know i’m not talking about the “point” of the post. don’t care.