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Jealous, has a point or just lacks a sense of humour?
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Okay, here's the background to this.
There's a group on Facebook for medical students like me. In the 'description' section it reads like this.
We've got it tough - long course, more debt than everyone else after graduation. Yet we seem to have a lot more fun than most other students...
Medics are a very cliquey group, so I thought I'd try and go international with the cliqueyness. Whether you are from Australia, the States, UK, India or anywhere else - congrats on your ambition and all the best for the future!
One day, someone posted this on the wall for the group.
I join this group for the sole purpose of being able to write its wall to criticise its description above.
Before I continue can I just say I was a medic for a year before I dropped out and changed to another course, but I held the same views on this even while I was a medical student. Also, the following mainly applies to UK.
You don't have it much tougher than anyone else wishing to become a successful professional in any field. The only difference is that you have a long course at a single place of education. Law students for example have to do the Legal Practice Course for a year before being allowed to practice. And people wishing to be chartered accountants have no shortage of post university exams either.
"Yet we seem to have a lot more fun than most other students..."
This is plainly balls. Get over yourself.
In summary, stop feeling so sorry for yourselves and get rid of the superiority complex. Those things are dangerous for people who are going to be doctors.
The end.
So - based on what he said... do you think that he is secretly upset because he had to drop out of medicine and hopes that this will help him feel less angry, do you think he's just lost his sense of humour... or do you think he has a point?!?
It doesn't matter in the slightest - just interested in some opinions!
Cheers
Chris
There's a group on Facebook for medical students like me. In the 'description' section it reads like this.
We've got it tough - long course, more debt than everyone else after graduation. Yet we seem to have a lot more fun than most other students...
Medics are a very cliquey group, so I thought I'd try and go international with the cliqueyness. Whether you are from Australia, the States, UK, India or anywhere else - congrats on your ambition and all the best for the future!
One day, someone posted this on the wall for the group.
I join this group for the sole purpose of being able to write its wall to criticise its description above.
Before I continue can I just say I was a medic for a year before I dropped out and changed to another course, but I held the same views on this even while I was a medical student. Also, the following mainly applies to UK.
You don't have it much tougher than anyone else wishing to become a successful professional in any field. The only difference is that you have a long course at a single place of education. Law students for example have to do the Legal Practice Course for a year before being allowed to practice. And people wishing to be chartered accountants have no shortage of post university exams either.
"Yet we seem to have a lot more fun than most other students..."
This is plainly balls. Get over yourself.
In summary, stop feeling so sorry for yourselves and get rid of the superiority complex. Those things are dangerous for people who are going to be doctors.
The end.
So - based on what he said... do you think that he is secretly upset because he had to drop out of medicine and hopes that this will help him feel less angry, do you think he's just lost his sense of humour... or do you think he has a point?!?
It doesn't matter in the slightest - just interested in some opinions!
Cheers
Chris
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And ongoing training is pretty standard across the board, career wise. You never really stop learning.
Who last titted about with your whatnot then
I certainly don't think he sounds bitter or angry or upset. I don't see where he said he 'had' to drop out of medicine, either.
incidently- has anyone read 'bodies' by Jed Mercurio? I DARE you to read this book and still become a medical student; it scared the shit out of me and I don't ever want to do medicine. It's written by an ex-doctor so he knows his shit.
Breif review:
http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/b/bodies.shtml
In summary, stop feeling so sorry for yourselves and get rid of the superiority complex. Those things are dangerous for people who are going to be doctors.
Anyone else noticed how it's always people who aren't in the medical profession who go around preaching about what medical students should and shouldn't be like???
There are doctors in Leeds who have seen parts of me I haven't seen.
Real, qualified, ex-medical student (who work 86 times as hard as anyone else and have 49 times more fun) doctors.
Ever noticed how doctors believe that they would make better managers/nurses/porters etc?
He is spot on, lose the arrogance and superiority complex now and you will actually be a much better doctor.
Long Course =yes
more debt = yes
more fun = assumption
a bigger salary = absolutely.
oookk... :rolleyes:
Actually, there are so many courses that are much easier and require much less studying than medical school or law school for instance. Medical school is hard. You try learning the latin name of all 206 bones in a human body. and the rest...
However, people who go for medical schools do so for the love of being a doctor and in view of helping people and with the knowledge that it's gonna be a hard time and a long course. The ones who complain about it do so just to wind people up in my view.
Having a God complex is part of being a successful doctor. Their confidence needs to be up there because they are dealing with a human life.
So, I think this guy is just feeling a bit left out...
You'll have to be quick, I have an appointment at marie Stopes soon
Of course, we could just stick to the sex part
Pscht.
Having confidence is important. having a God complex will either be drummed out of them by their first decent Ward Sister or their first error which kills/injures a patient. I always hope that the former happens first.
i've met and worked with hundreds of doctors. The best ones are those with humilty, who see the patient as a human being with a life/worries and responsibilities rather than yet another medical condition to treat. These are the doctors who rings the patient/family in the evening just because they are concerned, who treat every patients as a friend (whilst maintaining professional boundaries), who don't refer to patients by their first name, who treat nurses and other health professionals as precisely that - professionals - and who appreciate that they are just another part of the huge service we call Health.
Those who think that they are Gods, should move to Waco.
Agreed.
However, having the right balance between a God complex and humility is ok.
Guess I am talking more about surgeons than practitioners....
I am very humble but also very confident/arrogant when it comes to things I know.
Couldn't be bothered to write a longer reply?
Shurrup! It's late... and that was the jist of it
No, I think you were just ..... lazy.
*runs for his life
*generalising, of course
The bit I underlined is very interesting....care to elaborate at some point?
hehe
Fun times, I tell thee!