which is the best career . RN, OR becoming a doctor?

Question

can anyone tell me which one of the above is the best career in US. + I want to study online. so is there any good univerisity which covers this programs that i can apply to online. plz name them.

when i mean online. i mean to get started with the class work. that is lecture,b4 i get into real practical work

Answer 1

If you're looking to do it for the money, be a nurse. Any good nurse can work anywhere and make a boatload. (The local hospital near me pays part timers around $45-50K a year plus benefits.) Primary care doctors make crap. Specialists make the money there - but their malpractice insurance is absurdly high.

You can also have your RN license in under 5 years. Doctors have 7 years of schooling, then internship, residency, THEN they can go practice.

That said, you may not be able to do much of the schoolwork online - perhaps statistics, A&P, and chem, but most of the work requires labs that you need to phyiscally attend. You also need to keep a minimum B average to not get kicked out of the program.

Answer 2

There is absolutely NO WAY you can become an RN or a doctor by studying online.

I'm really sorry to say this, but it's true. Think about it - to become a doctor, you need to have done hands-on lab work in both biochemistry and dissection (they practice dissecting cadavers). You can't do any of that online, and would you want a doctor examining you who hadn't done any real "doctoring" work but instead had just sat in front of a computer? The same is true with nurses; they do a lot of bloodwork and "lesser" medical tasks that can only be learned with hands-on training. So unfortunately, you probably can't learn to do this online.

To answer your other question though - which is the better in the US:

Most people would readily answer "doctor." However, this may no longer be true. The raising cost of malpractice insurance (due to increased litigation, health care costs, and many other factors) has made being a doctor an increasingly less profitable profession. A lot of doctors have to work very long schedules and don't make as much money as they "used to" because so much of the money goes to malpractice insurance. Whatever your political leanings are, the state of health care in this country is pretty bad, and until it's fixed, it will have an increasingly negative effect on doctors' earnings as well as job stress levels.

On the other hand, as the Baby Boomers begin to retire, there will be a rising demand for nursing. Nursing requires a lot less schooling than becoming a doctor, and the number of nursing jobs is expected to rise dramatically. Highly trained registered nurses can earn a reasonable amount, and aren't subject to as much risky litigation as doctors are these days, nor do they have to pay as much (if any) malpractice insurance. Of course, they still don't make as much either.

So the trade-off is between a high-octane, high-maintenance, high-cost lucrative career versus a less-glamorous, less-stressful, but less well-paying career. And unfortunately, you can't get either of them solely via online methods.

Answer 3

Becoming a Doctor.

Answer 4

can't take med-school online buddy its all hands on cuttin up people in gross anatomy and pathophyisology class's and instruments that you use and what-not , plus it is intensive time

Answer 5

depends on how much money you want to make. try my school kaplan.edu