Cut off your daughter financially; she needs to learn to sink or swim. If she can’t learn to do this on her own, then she’s not even ready to talk about medical school. @Happy1 was giving the OP an option for grad school. Has the OP stopped responding?
As for the insulting comment about speech pathologists not being respected, that’s an opinion and a grossly erred bias.
I had to wear a lab coat when I worked in my hospitals because I often saw people immediately after their surgeries, or their traumatic brain incidents, and sometimes, there were projectiles. Visitors, in the hallways, had no idea whether or not I was a physician and I was often and pulled into rooms, by visitors, asking me to see their families and I would have to explain who I was and that I wasn’t a physician.
I did listen and respond Immediately to their requests by showing them the call buttons, or writing notes and giving them to their floor nursing staffs. Sometimes, the requests were simple and I would show them how to read their “Care” boards (nurse/Dr. on call, vitals). I don’t recall myself carrying a swagger, but I was well respected, both in my hospitals, and later, in my schools.
I wore a lanyard with my name and title. The patient had no idea whether or not I was a physician and I always introduced myself as their speech pathologist and the role I would play in the “recovery” of their family.
I brought my medical illustrations (Netter tear-offs)and explained what had happened during the trauma to the brain, both to the patient and the families, because, often times, the patient was not cognitively aware of what had happened.
The family members often didn’t know what had occurred during an embolism, aneurysm, left hemi/right hemi, etc. I explained, with pictures, what the doctors had previously described to the patient, about the brain, and then, how their family lifestyle would be impacted. I gave them access to my pager, my office lines, my emails. I believe my patients and their families are pretty grateful, as indicated by their referrals of their relatives and friends.
OP if your Daughter is still interested in working with patients, a career in speech pathology is an option. It is not an easy discipline. She’ll be expected to know all the conditions of traumatic brain injury. She’ll have at least a good four years of graduate school, learning about all of the conditions involving the brain, spinal cord, heart, and lungs, larynx, flaccidity and spastic musculature. She will be working the same 12 long hours in the hospital.
She is, and will be, responsible for her charting, and using the “right” codes to be reimbursed by Medicare and all the insurance companies. She will pay liability insurance. She will continue to be professionally “dressed and manicured” to be “presentable” to patients and their families.