Thanks for posting the link, jsp. I'd never seen this before.
Watching the first half where the students were going through med school made me smile and cringe several times. So many of those experiences and emotions are universal, even 20 years later. Good grief, I even wore horrible glasses like that in the 1980s.
Now being at the point where I'm getting ready to leave medical school and start residency, I have to say that I agree with Cook. In spite of what many people would like to believe, you cannot "have it all." This is not just a phenomenon in medicine. In general, if you want to be at the top of your field, you will not be the kind of parent who is there for all of your kids' school plays--if you have a family at all. And if you want balance, you will achieve that balance by cutting back on your career. I don't think there's a right or wrong side of the tradeoff, but there *is* a tradeoff, and anyone who says different is deluding themselves. It makes me particularly angry when people tell young women that they can be super-moms and super-professionals. You can't have two 80+ hour per week jobs when a week is only 168 hours total!
Cook, I do think there is room in medicine for people who don't want to make it their whole life. No question, your career trajectory will be different than someone else who is "balls to the wall." But if you're ok with that, you can create a balance, even in medicine.
The disillusionment they all went through was pretty harsh. None of them appeared to be happy people, and the divorce tally was disconcerting. Tom was a really sad figure, in particular. 
