Medical students do rotations at hospitals, including the ER in their last two years of med school. These can be just shadow type experiences or involve hands on clinical work. The molecular neuroscience specialty would have come after med school when the doctor went on to do his residency work in that field.
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Pretty sure anyone with an M.D. degree is equipped to handle that.
shareSo I wasn't the only one who noticed that! Yeah dude says he's a molecular neuroscientist, which is a PhD field. From that point on, he's just referred to as "the doctor" and is called upon to provide medical care, which is just absurd.
shareMany people do a PhD after getting their MD.
shareHe would not be referred to as a molecular neuroscientist then, and I doubt the audience is supposed to infer that he's an MD/PhD.
shareWell he could call himself a neuroscientist if that's what he's spending his time doing nowadays. I knew a banker who used to be a doctor, he certainly didn't call himself a doctor.
In any case yeah it's silly but that's the movies. In hollywood the average high school science teacher can splice DNA, build nuclear reactors, and perform emergency surgery.
Exactly. There are a variety of courses to select; most degree related classes are required. It could be an advanced class of First Aid. Yes, taking First Aid is required at many colleges which would also include treatment of broken bones, blood loss control, CPR, etc.
shareHe had a doctor's bag with him. That's how Neeson's character knew he was an MD as well as a molecular neuroscientist.
shareI thought the point was he just wanted to hurt the cop. He smirked liked he enjoyed it
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^Hahaha good one comedyfish :)
shareLOL, could very well be the case.
However, I interpreted his smirk as "they ALWAYS fall for the 'on three' thing when they really should know doctors just use this as a distraction to have them not tense up just before a painful procedure".
To my knowledge, injections often are administered using the same trick.
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Yeah, kinda dug that dark bit of comedy relief. I took it to imply that all doctors are closet marginal sadists. B^)
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Highly unlikely. A person with a Phd in Neuroscience is no more medically qualified than a person with a Phd in Physics. The assertion is ridiculous - it is of course remotely possible that the person specialised in Neuroscience after taking a medical degree but it is a stupid assumption and would have been a lot clearer if he was simply a medical doctor.
shareI'm sure than an MD would and could know such a thing.
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A lot of people could correct that; it's basic first-aid, not something requires a degree (unlike... molecular neuroscience!)
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Why couldn't a molecular neuroscienctist fix a broken nose? It's not as if it was a very advanced medical procedure that only someone with advanced education in the specific field could do.
If he had performed heart surgery on another passenger then sure, but all he really did was grab someones nose and twist.