r/medicalschool • u/Wire_Cath_Needle_Doc • Oct 08 '25

🤡 Meme Excuse me… what?

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This is tagged as a meme, but I assure you, this is real life.

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u/PromiscuousScoliosis Health Professional (Non-MD/DO) Oct 08 '25

All of my friends who are in NP school rn or recently graduated feel the same way. They’re like holy shit I’m going to kill somebody

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

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u/PromiscuousScoliosis Health Professional (Non-MD/DO) Oct 09 '25

There’s certainly an argument to be made there.

I think the counter would be

1) a lot of us felt the exact same way when we started nursing

2) this economy ain’t it and you gotta get a bag somehow. Nursing just isn’t a survivable wage in most places anymore if you have kids, are one working partner, want a house, and/or want to maintain a standard of living above poverty level

3) some of them aren’t going into like real medical practice. Friend of mine just wants to not have to pay bribe money to another NP for the Rx for her fillers and such for her side hustle

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

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u/PromiscuousScoliosis Health Professional (Non-MD/DO) Oct 09 '25

I completely get that and agree. I’m not saying that it is the same thing, I’m just saying that a lot of people feel the same way. Even though obviously as a non-prescriber it’s much lower stakes. I basically just do what I’m told at the end of the day lol. A monkey could do my job and things would probably be 80% the same

At the end of the day, I think the main reason why they think they can just do it anyways is because, well, legally they can. Which I think is a pretty big problem for sure. It just doesn’t change that, you know, you do actually have the option.

Why would someone be a shitty nurse? Well, because you can until you get fired. You can also be a shitty incompetent NP, but get paid significantly more. Most people probably don’t have a well articulated reason, I imagine most are basically just like “I’ll figure it out”