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This is not so important as the rest of cancer info for this message board...
Do you honestly believe that it takes only a high I.Q. to become a good doctor? Could one just study as hard enough as possible to get his/her undoubtedly well-deserved M.D. degree??
At my cancer clinic, a nurse practitioner is typically the person whom their patients see in their appointments. The oncologist rather visits the patient only occasionally, like every 3 or 6 months or so. While I was having chemo at my 1st diagnosis 2 years ago, I would always see my nurse practitioner 1st before going up for every infusion I had. I think I saw my oncologist maybe only 4 or 5 times during chemo treatment that summer through autumn.
The fact that it might require to have a high I.Q. in order to be a good doctor just struck me -- when, on the same day, my nurse practitioner had to take a quick look in my file for the spelling of my last name (she was doing some paperwork in my presence), my oncologist soon afterwards walked in, my files still remaining in the exam room, and she quickly made out a presription for me, without even checking my files for my last name! And that was about a year later, after I'd become their patient at the clinic.
Additionally, my surname is definitely not as popular as Smith or Miller around here; it is rather actually as popular as it could get in Portugal, very much like you would see there was about 10 pages long here on the Yellow Pages. Based on my own experience, it would instead take even just a close friend a good number of years before she would finally be able to spell it correctly!
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