As mentioned in the title, When:
1)The instant you say you're a Doctor to an acquaintance, they start of with a totally vague symptom thinking you know the diagnosis,AND the treatment.Which is what they expect you to do because,and let's face it,you are a doctor.
However,the history these acquaintances(now prospective patients) offer is far from diagnostic.Such as:
a)I have this major pain in my arse,what could you think it could be?Is there any treatment for it?
We might want to answer that the pain is most likely a failing marraige,but we are forced to say that it could be haemorrhoids.
2)People start bitching to you about the kind of care that they received the last time they,or their relatives,were in hospital. And the fact of the matter is that you don't have a clue how things work in that hospital,nor can you defend or persecute the hospital for same.
Yet you say something like "Yeah,some hospitals tend to be that way" instead of saying "I don't have a freaking clue what you're talking about, man"
3)People tell you "Wow!!You're a Doctor!!So you're raking in the moolah aren't you?"
When the answer is that "Dude/Dudette,I'm unemployed"
4)When people ask you what it is you're specializing in. You would want to say "Fuck you!! I'm working my ass off to get into a speciality you retard!!"
Yet you say "Well i'm interested in surgery,(not to mention what makes you tick((should the interviewer be a particularly smouldering female)))"
5)People say that how they wish they were a doctor,yet due to some family circumstance,they were unable to. We say what we think,namely "You lucky Bastard" and we mean it with all of our heart.
6)Those in high paying jobs say "Wow!There's shitloads of money to be made in Medicine"
When the reality is that the shitloads we might be making will come at the time when we have a wife and kids to fend for....and the people who so graciously said we'll be making shitloads have had their share of all night discos,totally unwarrantied vacations and would have paid off their loans for their cars and flats and whatnot.
Anyway,I'm all written out for now. Just to lighten up your mood!! My aim is to make a movie out of all this......and those who read this I'll sponsor their tickets for the premiere:-)
Peace out.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
The Wandering Mind
Anyway forget about all the dark entries made previously...this one will make them seem like a night-lit stadium!!
When one studies its seldom that one can put in more than,say,6 hours of dedicated intense study- with the stuff you learn staying in your head for a good period of time. Yet in Medicine we have to do more than that.Much more. Like 10,sometimes 12 to 14.Its survival instinct..one does not want to flunk the exams and one must do what one should to stay ahead. Eventually the time comes during our staring at the book when we feel :
"I wonder what my friends in the corporate and software fields are doing with the money they earn"
"Is this what I had fantasized about during my entire childhood?"
"My family doctor was right when he told my parents that I need to see a Psychiatrist when told about my intention of joining medicine"
"Is sex as easy to get as depicted in Gray's Anatomy?"
"I wonder if I will ever fully understand the meaning of the 4 lines that make a sentence in the text I just read"
"Heath Legder as The Joker is coooooool"
"Its sad that the message alert tone is not heard very frequently from my phone"
"Whatever happened to the one that got away? If only she/he would have realised the mistake they made and come crawling back to me telling me that I'm the one,finally!!"
"Going on a 24 hour drinking binge right now is what I need.Oh wait,I don't have the money!"
"Will the world end now that MAD is becoming more and more probable?"
"I should get back to studying"
"What would I choose: Being the superhero of my dreams or being immortal?"
"Ok I'm the helmsman for the USS Enterprise,and there's a Bird of Prey right in front of me. Activating Photon Torpedos....."
"Who is the better guitarist-Edward Van Halen,Mike Mcready or David Gilmour?"
"Dr.(Self Name),MBBS,MD,DNB,DM(Cardiology/Nephology) How cool would that be??!!"
"That cockroach has been darting across my floor for,like,forever"
And so on and so forth. The above can be freely borrowed for any book dealing with how to waste time or The Psychology of a Med Student,should the prospective author decide to,no problem.Only too glad to help:-)
Basically the point of a persons growth is when he/she reaches a point that they have traversed before and they decide to go the other way. And so it is that after a while we shake our heads and go back to what we were reading, with concentration this time around. Hopefully things work out for the best.
I am by nature a realist,but appearently my mood is very much subject to circumstances around me(and here I am writing about personal growth.Anyway..). But the way things are at the moment,I would be what you would call a pessimist.Ok,a fatalist. (Some Kudos for honesty,people,c'mon!)
Because things,at the current juncture,are tough,the toughest I've experienced in my life. But then on I can put it in writing that 20 years from now I'll look back and wonder how simple life was back then,when the only thing required of me was to be a dilligent student and nothing more. But we as humans tend to get caught up in the moment. Its only natural.
Well,anyway,thats that.Its easy to theorize things like this but truly applying them in reality is what makes us wise.
Tata.
When one studies its seldom that one can put in more than,say,6 hours of dedicated intense study- with the stuff you learn staying in your head for a good period of time. Yet in Medicine we have to do more than that.Much more. Like 10,sometimes 12 to 14.Its survival instinct..one does not want to flunk the exams and one must do what one should to stay ahead. Eventually the time comes during our staring at the book when we feel :
"I wonder what my friends in the corporate and software fields are doing with the money they earn"
"Is this what I had fantasized about during my entire childhood?"
"My family doctor was right when he told my parents that I need to see a Psychiatrist when told about my intention of joining medicine"
"Is sex as easy to get as depicted in Gray's Anatomy?"
"I wonder if I will ever fully understand the meaning of the 4 lines that make a sentence in the text I just read"
"Heath Legder as The Joker is coooooool"
"Its sad that the message alert tone is not heard very frequently from my phone"
"Whatever happened to the one that got away? If only she/he would have realised the mistake they made and come crawling back to me telling me that I'm the one,finally!!"
"Going on a 24 hour drinking binge right now is what I need.Oh wait,I don't have the money!"
"Will the world end now that MAD is becoming more and more probable?"
"I should get back to studying"
"What would I choose: Being the superhero of my dreams or being immortal?"
"Ok I'm the helmsman for the USS Enterprise,and there's a Bird of Prey right in front of me. Activating Photon Torpedos....."
"Who is the better guitarist-Edward Van Halen,Mike Mcready or David Gilmour?"
"Dr.(Self Name),MBBS,MD,DNB,DM(Cardiology/Nephology) How cool would that be??!!"
"That cockroach has been darting across my floor for,like,forever"
And so on and so forth. The above can be freely borrowed for any book dealing with how to waste time or The Psychology of a Med Student,should the prospective author decide to,no problem.Only too glad to help:-)
Basically the point of a persons growth is when he/she reaches a point that they have traversed before and they decide to go the other way. And so it is that after a while we shake our heads and go back to what we were reading, with concentration this time around. Hopefully things work out for the best.
I am by nature a realist,but appearently my mood is very much subject to circumstances around me(and here I am writing about personal growth.Anyway..). But the way things are at the moment,I would be what you would call a pessimist.Ok,a fatalist. (Some Kudos for honesty,people,c'mon!)
Because things,at the current juncture,are tough,the toughest I've experienced in my life. But then on I can put it in writing that 20 years from now I'll look back and wonder how simple life was back then,when the only thing required of me was to be a dilligent student and nothing more. But we as humans tend to get caught up in the moment. Its only natural.
Well,anyway,thats that.Its easy to theorize things like this but truly applying them in reality is what makes us wise.
Tata.
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