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Originally Posted by Sunshine
Whoa, I better call us Vanderbilt and let them in on this! 
An MD does not have to also have a PhD to practice in a specialty. They don't even have to be board certified in that specialty unless it is required by the practice he works in. |
Those are only the legal requirements, as I've said over and over and over. But simply meeting the legal requirement to practice isn't enough to qualify one as a real doctor, just as simply being elected/appointed Pres is insufficient to qualify one as a real leader.
In terms of the Ph. D., I already recanted that requirement, saying that any kind of original work or research, with or without a Ph. D. is a requirement to be considered a true doctor. But the original work is a
hard requirement. If one doesn't have it, he/she cannot be called a doctor.
Someone who treats patients in an area is inevitably going to encounter medical conditions with which he/she is unfamiliar. At that point, that's where the original thinking/research comes in. A person who has no experience with that will fail at that point, and consequently, many of these "doctors" do.
I could cite the stats showing the no. of suits filed due to misdiagnoses or erroneous treatments.
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Originally Posted by Sunshine
Most who do get some kind of PhD work at university hospitals and they can go to school for free. It's part of their employment package.
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They can but they won't, which I've already pointed out, because there's no immediate financial incentive. A neurosurgeon w/no Ph. D. will make $450-$700k/yr. With a Ph. D. and/or publications, he'll make the same,
unless he/she can successfully market that doctorate to differentiate himself, enough to justify not contracting w/insurance cos.
At that point, a neurosurgeon can make several million a year.