He Posed as a Doctor at 18. Now He’s Going to Prison.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/us/doctor-fraud-charges.html Remember this guy?
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It's a no from me
I'd rather medical school has age limits of 18 to enter
try forbes 3 under 3I would love a follow to these things, you always hear about these kids, but nothing else. Like is there someone at JPL right now in a booster seat at a thermodynamics meeting?
If they have the degree then I don't care about their age.
I trust the system enough to not place a jackshit moron in charge of my life.
the 4 extra hours my friend's 9 month old sleeps is less time he is putting in on solos on Fortnite or climbing the ladder in LoL. He can hold a bottle, he can hold a Razer mouse
Congrats. Don't fall into the trappings of genius kids, though. Gotta keep a level head. There's a reason why breakthroughs aren't made by former kid geniuses even though people think it will happen.
Oh well obviously if given the choice between someone new or someone experienced you were going to choose someone experienced, but every surgeon and doctor on the planet had a first surgery and a first patient.I would imagine experience in practicing medicine is pretty valuable on top of the degree.
If you asked me to choose between two trained surgeons and one had done the procedure successfully 100 times and the other 5, it would be an easy choice.
Absolutely not, I don't care how smart she is, 17 year olds are immature.What say you, Era? Would you go to a doctor who's like 17 years old (when she graduates)?
She's still doing undergrad at ASU.I feel like this is robbing her of her childhood. I'd never let my kid do this
what if she changes her mind about medical school? I changed my mind about careers a ton of times throughout my teenage years. she won't be able to make friends or really get any of the non-academic experiences you get out of high school and university
not to mention this is just too much pressure for a 13 year old
Absolutely not, I don't care how smart she is, 17 year olds are immature.
As someone who's an attending physician, I agree with all this.As someone who's just finished med school and began life as a doctor, me too.
Medicine can be absolutely soul crushing to get through as an adult.
I'd have hated to have missed out on a (relatively) stress free childhood/adolescence.
Strange you can start med school at 15, too. You have to be 18 at least here in the UK, I believe.
This is an excellent point that a lot of people may overlookI would still be wary of admitting someone this young into medicine even if they are on paper very accomplished. - the field is much more than simply learning from books, memorizing facts, doing well on tests etc. A lot of emotional maturity is involved, and much of that comes from life experience - there are certain things that she will certainly encounter in medical school and beyond that will test not her intelligence, but rather her skills in addressing complex emotional issues - people too young (or rather, those with less life experience) are generally ill-equipped to interact with patients in that way. That aspect is unique to medicine in comparison to other "high achieving" fields such as scientific research, engineering etc. in which child prodigies may be more successful. As someone going through it right now, professional medical training is extremely difficult, often soul crushing - I feel bad for her in the sense that she'll really miss out on having a proper childhood.
It was.
Firstly..How young? It's hard as fuck to get into med school. I'm starting Monday and I'm 25. So I won't even be a doctor until 29.
It's not a "gift". There is no such thing as a gift.
You could probably train most children up to do this, at the same age. But we don't, because we want them to be children.
You really can't force it, the stars have to align. Many children could, but those same many will not because the stars really have to align. It's something only a few can do.