For the love of God, any prospective student please do not listen to this wannabe retard who is obviously still schooling. Go talk to a real pharmacist who have worked at least 3 years. Or listen to me, a real doctor with many pharmacist friends.
Compounding skills? Lol. All the skills you mentioned can be done by a poly pharm tech. Your skills are not valuable!
Higher starting pay? Lol. You have to do an additional one year training to get pgy1 status so you should compare your pay to an accountancy grad with 2 years experience. Pay increment is also pathetic. Most ex pharmacists I know are taking a paycut to move to regulatory and industry to try to restart their careers
All your male seniors wish they were me and all your female seniors wish they can be with me. I'm sorry to burst your bubble kiddo, but you have many years of self doubt and depression ahead
Fancy this wannabe student who never worked a day in his life at a hospital trying to tell me what I don't know. Lol
Hi there doctor,
Wow! You're a doctor whom everyone wants to be! Guess you have the right to be so narcissistic and arrogant about it
I didn't expect a doctor like yourself to become so personal with your argument, attacking "this wannabe retard". I, too want to be a doctor, however if being a doctor entails a drop in moral character, looking down on others and that "god" persona that you seemed to have created for yourself, I rather pass.
Moving on to the points that you have brought up,
1) Compounding
Thanks for agreeing with me that there are jobs related to compounding and not some formulas are entirely made by machines from your previous point.
The idea of being an oncologist pharmacist was just an example of a job related to it so as to show that compounding skills are still relevant. And, not totally made by machines as you have earlier mentioned. Being an oncologist pharmacist is indeed tough, as it requires further study as well as more intense competition.
Wouldn't it be the same as a doctor specializing as well? Intense competition is bound to be present with more qualified people out there.
2) Employment rate
Employment rate vs "dream hospital gig" are 2 different things. I think you should know this, doctor
. You can be employed, whether or not its something that you want is another thing.
3) Salary wise
You have a decent salary being a pharmacist. If money would be your main drive for you to work harder, then why work in the healthcare sector at all? Go study accounting or engineering, the pay there is much better and you do not need to face life-or-death choices. As a doctor, you should know how tough it is to work in a hospital. You need a lot of passion before considering to join ANY of the healthcare jobs where your actions can influence a patient's life.
4) Competition with Filipino/Malaysian
To repeat my point, NO universities in Philippines are recognized by the SPC. They have to go through an equally demanding test or study in NUS before being able to apply as a pharmacist which I think should be considered as fair competition since they are equally if not more qualified.
5) "General degree"
Of course, one could easily miss out a point if you do not elaborate on it. Thanks for elaborating your point further. Let me reiterate, this degree allows you to have an insight on the various industries that you can venture and by no means did I suggest that it gives you an advantage, rather an insight.
6) Moving on from Hospitals
I agree, most pharmacists move on to various other roles showing yet again how versatile pharmacists are. And as quoted by what you've said as well as what I have said before, "Success is determined by what you do after obtaining the degree"
The rest of the points are either riddled with derogatory remarks attempt to ridicule me in your spite of anger just because someone disagreed with you or riddled with tales from your pharmacist friends which again proved my point of you giving superficial as well as biased comments.
All professions have their pros and cons. Working in the healthcare sector requires a lot of passion to deal with patients and the large amount of stress.
Every profession has their competition. So does that mean, we just give up and be depressed or blame the government? The only way to deal with this is to better ourselves.
Not once in my previous posts, did I encourage anyone to join Pharmacy, nor did I ridicule you as a person. I merely disagreed on the points you made, either because it wasn't explained clearly enough or was it untrue as I've mentioned above. If your point is fair, of course I will agree with you and I have done so.
Yes, a doctor is highly regarded in the medical profession. Doctors are highly regarded due to their extensive medical knowledge, professionalism in their work as well as capability that they show in handling difficult cases. The doctors that I have worked with respect pharmacists and their opinions. They portray a professional image and will never reply in the fashion that you did.
If you disagree with my points, fine, bring out your opinions and we can have a civil debate over it.
Resorting to name callings as well as devaluing the poster's ability just because I disagree with you is really very disgusting and shows such a nasty character of yours as you seek to justify yourself through name callings and derogatory remarks.
You are free to bring up any opinions of yours and likewise, I am free to do so as well. Some points that you have brought up seemed fair and I agree with them, others which I disagree on or seemed vague, I weighed in on those issues. I did say that your comments were superficial which might have been a case where some of your points were not elaborated upon. If I might have seemed rude in my expression, then I apologize. However, not once did I resort to any rude remarks.
This shall be the end of my take on your post. If you would like to bring up more points in a more civil and approachable manner, I would gladly continue our discussion about this profession.
If not, I suggest you not to spoil the image of doctors through your behavior on this forum where you can hide behind this veil of anonymity, especially not at the section where impressionable prospective undergrads come to. However, if you wish to continue to do so, this wannabe retard that you have termed me shall not stop you from humiliating yourself.
Cheers.
