Medical v. Aerospace
Medical v. Aerospace
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Does anyone have any experience in switching from one to the other? I recently changed from Aero to Medical, and am now having second thoughts.
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RE: Medical v. Aerospace
"In vivo" medical, where what you do contacts the patient directly or indirectly, or internally, is more heavily regulated, for the obvious reasons and because physicians run the companies, and many are arrogant enough to insert themselves in technical decisions despite a generally tenuous grasp of physics.
I get the impression that within the "in vivo" universe, everybody who is anybody has an M.D., and a string of initials after that, and everyone else is just "the help", largely interchangeable, except for people who work or have ever worked in "in vivo", who are beneath contempt.
The "in vitro" universe is a little closer to the one that includes Earth.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Medical v. Aerospace
I'm thinking of returning to aerospace but my concern is that aerospace is a dying field and medical is the better industry.
RE: Medical v. Aerospace
Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 03-13-07)
RE: Medical v. Aerospace
Medicine is somewhat less agglomerated, and medical startups have a much better chance of growing rather than evaporating. I don't mean to say that their chances are good, just better than an aerospace startup, mostly because of the much smaller amount of capital required to enter production.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Medical v. Aerospace
Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 03-13-07)
RE: Medical v. Aerospace
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RE: Medical v. Aerospace
Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 03-13-07)
RE: Medical v. Aerospace
A friend from another eng school confessed concern that all the jobs were in aero, weapons, etc. I advised him that there was a whole other world out there in bio-eng, and he went to med school right after eng school. He probably wrote his own ticket after med school.