Classmates are so uptight?

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IsleyOfTheNorth said:
Not trying to be a jerk here (really), but perhaps you're just too immature and un-funny.

"Getting hammered" is not something adults above a certain class level do - certainly not those in positions of power and responsibility. It's an extremely immature behavior which is probably why you get the looks that you do.

"Dr. Boner" isn't funny - not in this context at least. It's basically 4th grade humor at best.

My guess is that all the techniques you've used to get people to like you up to this point no longer work because you're no longer surrounded by losers. (Sorry. But also, yay!) Time to change tactics.

"It's better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you're a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." -Mark Twain

Again, not trying to be a jerk, but let's pull that band-aid off quickly and be done with it.

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Thank god we have an adult in here
 
It's people in medicine in general. Most of the kids who get into medical school studied in high school to get into a good college, and studied really hard in college to medical school. There is nothing wrong with that at all, but they missed out on a lot of regular life experiences, like working crappy, humbling jobs and getting to know all types of people. It is one thing to be an intellectual, it is another to be so PC and judgmental that you are a fascist

I will say that I have worked with doctors that make inappropriate jokes and I have found that awkward. Mostly because I don't expect that coming from attendings. I suppose I expect students however to act a little less uptight.
 
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IsleyOfTheNorth said:
"Getting hammered" is not something adults above a certain class level do - certainly not those in positions of power and responsibility. It's an extremely immature behavior which is probably why you get the looks that you do.

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For all you know OP this could be one of your classmates you are referring to LOL.
 
IsleyOfTheNorth said:
Here's a fun coincidence: Last week someone I know got fired from a management position for off-hours drinking and unprofessional behavior. Just thought I'd share.
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You really need to relax on this holier than thou attitude. Especially as a premed whose clearly doing some serious idealizing of medicine and medical professionals.
 
IsleyOfTheNorth said:
"Getting hammered" is not something adults above a certain class level do - certainly not those in positions of power and responsibility. It's an extremely immature behavior which is probably why you get the looks that you do.
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Jfc. Please forgive those of us who don't give a **** about you or your ilk looking down on us. Have fun being "high class" bud
 
sammiesings said:
You really need to relax on this holier than thou attitude. Especially as a premed whose clearly doing some serious idealizing of medicine and medical professionals.
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I'm just providing information the people in this thread might be interested to hear.

For what it's worth, I don't idealize medicine or those that work in it. People are people in medicine just as they are in the corporate environment. Some people succeed and are career-focused and others just get stigmatized and have no potential for advancement. It's more complicated than "winners vs. losers" of course, but that's a decent analogy. I've not been a doctor, but I have had a successful 20-year career in engineering. It's hard not to take something on-board after watching the rise and fall of careers over 20 years.

Some people have no ambition of course. That's ok for them of course but then, why become a doctor? Go for something easier where telling dick jokes and "getting hammered" are acceptable hobbies. Plus you have all the legal/ethical implications of a doctor showing up to work with a hangover...

TL;DR: You are judged for your actions 24/7 and people will treat you accordingly.
 
IsleyOfTheNorth said:
I'm just providing information the people in this thread might be interested to hear.

For what it's worth, I don't idealize medicine or those that work in it. People are people in medicine just as they are in the corporate environment. Some people succeed and are career-focused and others just get stigmatized and have no potential for advancement. It's more complicated than "winners vs. losers" of course, but that's a decent analogy. I've not been a doctor, but I have had a successful 20-year career in engineering. It's hard not to take something on-board after watching the rise and fall of careers over 20 years.

Some people have no ambition of course. That's ok for them of course but then, why become a doctor? Go for something easier where telling dick jokes and "getting hammered" are acceptable hobbies. Plus you have all the legal/ethical implications of a doctor showing up to work with a hangover...

TL;DR: You are judged for your actions 24/7 and people will treat you accordingly.
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Im a doc and enjoy dick jokes and other unprofessional things
 
JP2740 said:
Im a doc and enjoy dick jokes and other unprofessional things
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Nothing wrong with that. I like unprofessional things too - but I do it outside of the professional environment among people that I know well.

Students are trying to prove that they are a mature professionals and are constantly surrounded by people evaluating them. There is a time and a place for "Dr. Boner". (Ok, not really - it's just stupid, but you get the point.)
 
IsleyOfTheNorth said:
I'm just providing information the people in this thread might be interested to hear.

For what it's worth, I don't idealize medicine or those that work in it. People are people in medicine just as they are in the corporate environment. Some people succeed and are career-focused and others just get stigmatized and have no potential for advancement. It's more complicated than "winners vs. losers" of course, but that's a decent analogy. I've not been a doctor, but I have had a successful 20-year career in engineering. It's hard not to take something on-board after watching the rise and fall of careers over 20 years.

Some people have no ambition of course. That's ok for them of course but then, why become a doctor? Go for something easier where telling dick jokes and "getting hammered" are acceptable hobbies. Plus you have all the legal/ethical implications of a doctor showing up to work with a hangover...

TL;DR: You are judged for your actions 24/7 and people will treat you accordingly.
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Lol give me a ****ing break, dingus.
 
It's all good. Call me a dingus. I'll sleep just fine. Take some time and convince yourself that nothing I've said has any merit.

In 10 years, when you're hanging out with your bros complaining to them how unfair it is that Dr. Boner passed you over for that position they'll all console you. "Yeah man, life's so unfair." "What a bunch of bull**** - that guy's a dick." Then sleep it off and go back to the job that you hate but can't get out of because "life's so unfair". Meanwhile, all the people who weren't out "getting hammered" and telling dick jokes in the workplace quietly avoid you for fear of you tainting their careers as well. What a bunch of uptight a-holes they are, am I right?

TL;DR: You're known by the company you keep.
 
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TexasMeds said:
Thanks everyone, what about y'alls experience of Ortho?
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I don't know, while they liked their fare share of dick jokes (when out of ear shot of patients), I found they could be dead serious about their tools and fractures.

I feel like the general surgeons are the life of the party.
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You'll eventually find your 'tribe' OP

it's not easy being undifferentiated
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