<p>then please please please let the highly honorable intellectual chemical engineers and incredibly talented investment genius figure out how to cure cancer, perform surgery, diliver babies, heal those cardiovascular&respiratory&digestive&reproductive&immunolgical&endocrinic&nervous&urinary&otolaryngological diseases and so on.</p>
<p>and when you get a flu or break bones or feel malaise, please go to see chemical engineers or financial specialists and see what they can do for you.</p>
<p>when someone gets a stroke or has an accident, do not call hospital for an ambulance, but Exxon Mobil or Chevron for a Porsche or Bentley or Rolls-Royce and take that person somewhere else perhaps Las Vegas or Dubai, and see if life goes on?</p>
<p>I think he’s making the point that simple water treatment, waste management infrastructure in parts of Africa and other third-world countries would save thousands if not millions of lives. Far more people suffer and die from those poor living conditions than die from cancer each year.</p>
<p>he’s making the point that People wanted to go to medical school to become a doctor because of pay inflation due to the medical cartel situation in the US. There’s so many other ways to make more money than MDs (more output) with less debt and time (less input).</p>
<p>I really wanted to go to a top graduate school and get a PhD in Astromony but after a brush with Hilbert Space and Tensor Calculus in some of my upper division classes I realized I simply did not have the math aptitude to accomplish that. Since the only other thing I was interested in was medicine I chose medical school. I realize that there are much easier ways of earning a lot more money such as getting an MBA at Wharton but that did not interest me. So I want to the medical school of Wharton’s next door neigbor Drexel. Medical school and residency were the hardest things I have I ever done but I do not regret it. I earn a comfortable living as a physician and think it is personally far more satisfying than being a banker or management consultant.</p>
<p>Shackleford: Thank you for understanding. The money invested in a doctor before a single life is saved by that doctor could have immediately saved hundreds of people with water treatment and sewage infrastructure.</p>
<p>Lemaitre1: I understand then. So despite having learned astronomy so much, a switch to something related like say, Aerospace Engineering or Financial Math research would’ve still not have interested you as much as medical school?</p>
Perhaps rather than just random groups of terms, things that build on each other. Biology classes have this nasty way of jumping around without giving any definite basis.
See this is why it’s important to take Physics and Chemistry beyond the high school level… Physics isn’t number crunching. It’s derivation of formulas that explain why movement makes sense. A good physics class doesn’t require a calculator but only a mind that is able to follow proofs.
Um, so long as you know F=ma most other things can be realistically derived. Even if that’s not the case more complicated concepts are used enough that they are known rather than only memorized and passed over.
There’s nothing wrong with pointing out the differences.
Meh I don’t want to continue.</p>
<p>so true pianist. in chemistry and physics you do not need to memorize anything: the formulas are given to you on a sheet for every single test. some tests are purely analytical and use symbols instead of numbers so you don’t even need a calculator.</p>
<p>biology is not the study of life. it is the study of shameless money grabbing. where do you think the biomedical research money goes if it has no good outputs? there are 2 possibilities here: 1.) bio researchers are scumbags and pocketed the difference 2.) bio research is worthless because it has no outputs. take your pick.</p>
<p>You’re a fool aren’t you? I mean investment banking jobs are just plentiful and easy to find, why go be a doctor when you can just sit in an office doing grunt work for 80 -110 hours a week to make big bucks! There are so many BB jobs in IB that they’re just recruiting everyone now! It’s a very hot easy field to get into.</p>
<p>People that go to medical school just to make money don’t last long. They’ll burn out spending many years to do something they don’t want to do. There are a number of doctors that want to be doctors in say, family medicine, a relatively low paying job, and because of the pay end up going into a very competitive, higher paying, life style job. Like dermatology or ophthalmology. At least they wanted to be a doctor, maybe not in that specialty.</p>
<p>You seem to be one of those people that think their thoughts and experiences are so important that they must be fact. You’re not important, your thoughts aren’t important. Very few peoples thoughts are important, you’re not one of them.</p>
<p>LastThreeYears, have you ever heard of logical fallacies? Your logic is SO FLAWED, which makes your argument worthless. Sure biology has a lot to do with memorization, but there are many concepts that require analytical skill for true understanding. Why is everything about money for you? What a greedy bast***. or an effin ■■■■■. I know doctors that donate over 30% of their income to various charities. GET A LIFE/BRAIN.</p>
<p>Money can’t do everything but without money you can’t do anything. You just need enough money to avoid poverty which Biology doesn’t let you do.</p>
<p>Google “Biology worthless major” and see for yourself. There’s numerous Biology PhDs from every aspect of biology that regret their PhDs.</p>
<p>kivanovasweet, scanner: a few minutes spent on CC will demonstrate that LTY is a ■■■■■ who isn’t happy with his original choice of major and is now compelled to enlighten the CC community so they can all avoid the same mistakes. FWIW, I say let the bitter be bitter, don’t feed the ■■■■■■, and continue to offer your constructive insights.</p>
<p>Chem/calc is so easy and boring, it’s just understanding concepts and has no clear application until later … biology takes way more time/effort and you can apply it right away to the world around you.</p>
<p>I love the whole waste management system analogy. In what field were the sickness causing agents in our waste discovered? Biology. Without Biology, we’d still be wondering why unsanitary places cause more disease. True, I guess, you could do a study and find that the rate of death in unsanitary places is higher. But no one would know why. Biology ties everything together. Scientists are on the tip of manufacturing a new mosquito which resists malaria and is hardier than common mosquito. Eradicating malaria would save millions of lives through BIOLOGY. No one can dispute the fact that engineering is lucrative and useful. But the job market in engineering isn’t really as good as the job market from other fields. Genetic manipulation has the possibility to save foods and increase crop yields in third world countries, saving hundreds of people from dying of hunger. How is that useless. I am disgusted by your encouragement to bright minds to eschew biology/medicine and instead work in business. Great, maybe they can contribute to the next stock market crash by creating risky loans based on nothing but air. The shortage of doctors can continue to decrease and our odds of finding cures to diseases like AIDS, Cancer, and Malaria can decrease exponentially. Really, who needs more pretty buildings by Civil engineers? I’d rather live longer, thank you very much.</p>
<p>The reason for hunger in third-world countries is corrupt government. Primitive agricultural practices and poor land resource management also contribute greatly. In other words, there doesn’t need to be some sort of revolutionary genetic breakthrough to feed more people in those countries. Until those corrupt governments are put to an end, there will always be hunger because of inordinate arrogation of economic resources.</p>
<p>This isn’t to say that corruption , poor agricultural practices, and poor resource management don’t contribute to world hunger—because they do, but the problem has many causal factors.</p>
<p>Just gonna say, architects design those pretty buildings. Civil engineers design your waste water treatment systems and pretty much all public utilities we depend upon to live in modern times.</p>