Disillusioned, angry, abused

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Feel free to add verbs that describe your current feelings toward medical school.

 

[Gut Shot]

Grateful.

 

[crazy_cavalier]

drained, tired, sweaty, greasy.

(well I decided to add some adjectives, oh wells)

 

[racerx]

unlubed, sore, torn, the submissive cellmate

 

[Long Dong]

Feel free to add verbs that describe your current feelings toward medical school.

Disillusioned, angry, abused is how I felt after 3rd year add a little depression/blues with that too.

 

[stoic]

right now i feel pretty indifferent. i got so burnt out towards the end of second year that i actually completely stopped caring. somehow i didn't flunk out but honestly, for a bit there i wouldn't have been too upset had that happened.

i think this is the point where we realize what we've gotten ourselves into and start becoming embittered and prone to substance abuse.

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

tired. definitely tired.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Grateful.

You pansy.

 

[deleted113029]

Finished...Relief!

 

[stoic]

dirty, too. in a lot of ways. there's so much inequity. so much pure bull**** and money involved. and the dance we play for the public representing a health care system that's NOT approaching collapse?

 

[deleted50541]

You pansy.

For me, the word dejected comes to mind.

 

[G.O.A.T.]

indifferent. the worst feeling of all.

 

[G.O.A.T.]

Disillusioned, angry, abused is how I felt after 3rd year add a little depression/blues with that too.

dude, you got derm. derm. to quote viper, "you are the best of the best".

 

[ChildNeuro]

Feel free to add verbs that describe your current feelings toward medical school.

Wow. I think alot of it depends on where you are doing your clinical electives/rotations. I had those feelings on a rotation(s), probably could add alot more nasty adverbs, but then did rotations/clerkships at better/saner hospitals and had an *excellent* time. If you really are feeling abused, then perhaps that should be addressed formally. It depends on the ethos of your school, some less humane places you are expected to be subservient and not complain/address abuses, which in the end it makes it worse for students coming into the rotation next, because such professors realize how much they can get away with. Whereas, at other hospitals attendings and residents treat you like a human being. This can be the difference between a rotation that flies by, and one that leaves psychological scars

 

[GuzzyRon]

Feel free to add verbs that describe your current feelings toward medical school.

Exciting! Informative!! Invigorating!!!

 

[DoctorFunk]

right now i feel pretty indifferent. i got so burnt out towards the end of second year that i actually completely stopped caring. somehow i didn't flunk out but honestly, for a bit there i wouldn't have been too upset had that happened.

i think this is the point where we realize what we've gotten ourselves into and start becoming embittered and prone to substance abuse.

My feelings exactly. Was I the only one here that thought benzos sounded intriguing when learning about them in pharm? Good thing I don't have the money/time to become an alcoholic.

 

[stoic]

My feelings exactly. Was I the only one here that thought benzos sounded intriguing when learning about them in pharm? Good thing I don't have the money/time to become an alcoholic.

physicians have an above average rate of benzo use/abuse than the general population. gee, i wonder why that is?

and actually, i took xanax for a bit when the **** really hit the fan at the end of last semester. it helped a lot.

 

[Tired]

F*ck.

 

[LifetimeDoc]

Being an MS0...

• Excited
• Scared sh*tless

 

[Long Dong]

dude, you got derm. derm. to quote viper, "you are the best of the best".

I don't know about best of the best, but I'd say lucky of the lucky. So right now I feel like villin "finished, releif" and add excited.

But during 3rd year I was definetly disillusioned/depressed. I loved working with patients and learning new stuff and all, but it was those subjective evals that got to me. I think it was that learned helplessness theory of depression. On some rotations I'd bust my butt and rock the shelf, to only get mediocre evals. Someone posted that when there is a huge differental in power, and people can affect your career there is always politics involved. I knew there'd be politics invovled in everything, but I just wasn't aware how much it was invovled in medicine. Just had to vent.😳

 

[inked_caduceus]

Being an MS0...

• Excited
• Scared sh*tless

Being an MSII/nearly III

that still applies.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Right now I'm too tired to feel anything beyond some minor panic about my neuro test tomorrow.

 

[WhoisJohnGalt]

despondent, trapped like a drowning rat, wretched, angst-ridden, envious, apprehensive

 

[lilnoelle]

ambivalent

relaxed - although I should be freaking out about my tests next week, I just don't care enough to stress about it.

 

[tacrum43]

You pansy.

Tired, stressful, but still glad just to be here. 🙂

Yes, I also am a pansy...But have you actually seen pansies? They're actually pretty tough flowers. It can snow on them, and they're just fine.

 

[LJDHC05]

Tired. Sick of the BS of other students. Neuro blows. In need of a vacation.

 

[45408]

frustrated that I'm within an inch of honoring phys, but if I get more than 12 wrong on the cumulative final (140 questions), I won't make it. and I probably won't.

 

[DocYuki]

Mad already as an MS0 why? Because my school (which has 8 satellite campuses) gave me my 5th choice for where I'll be my 1st two years...FIFTH! I'm going to be stuck out in a little town I know nothing about, far from the main campus where I really need to be.

😡

 

[bretticus]

Feel free to add verbs that describe your current feelings toward medical school.

Grammar-challenged?

Sorry, I couldn't resist... 😉

 

[Anastasis]

Being an MS0...

• Excited
• Scared sh*tless

Yeah what he said.

 

[Critical Mass]

horny

Yeah, I know, that was true before I started med school, but I thought that this thread could use some levity.

😀

 

[OncoCaP]

Another excited MS0 here!! Can't wait to get started. Ready to work my tail off and get the tar beaten out of me while I do something I love ... won't be the first time for me.

 

[humuhumu]

Tired...and honestly, glad to be here.

I might give you a different answer during an exam week....and during certain clinical rotations....

 

[lord_jeebus]

I think it was that learned helplessness theory of depression.

Oh man have I been thinking about that a lot...(ending MS3)

Hopefully next year I'll be as excited as you are

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

Another excited MS0 here!! Can't wait to get started. Ready to work my tail off and get the tar beaten out of me while I do something I love ... won't be the first time for me.

hehe...not a whole lot of "doing something you love" in first year..

 

[Tired]

hehe...not a whole lot of "doing something you love" in first year..

Or second year.

Or during the Step 1 study period.

Or most of third year.

 

[Rugby MD]

overwhelmed
adhd-ish
poor, so very very poor

 

[sirus_virus]

I am surprised no one has used the word 'exploited' to describe the way these medschools are jacking their students, all in the name of tuition.

 

[kito]

M4 on the horizon.

 

[Critical Mass]

I am surprised no one has used the word 'exploited' to describe the way these medschools are jacking their students, all in the name of tuition.

👍

They say that even with our tuition as it is, it makes up only 3% of the total operating budget. I say fine, let's cut it down to 1 or 2% since it's so insignificant.

 

[Jon Davis]

In a word: Defeated.

First year did not go as I wanted. Believe me, most of us were kings/queens in undergrad, you get quickly dethroned in med school. I hope I can get my act together next yr to do at least decent.

 

[forkslide]

My feelings exactly. Was I the only one here that thought benzos sounded intriguing when learning about them in pharm? Good thing I don't have the money/time to become an alcoholic.

At the end of second year, this seems more and more appealing.

 

[raidermedic]

Yeah back when I was a MS1/MSII it sucked being at the end of the year and totally drained. But looking back that was like a vacation compared to the end of third year. See in the first two years you can basically say @#$& it I'm not going to class/studying/waking up early for a day or even a week really. Third year you can't exactly call your attending and be like "Hey champ, kind of burnt since it's the end of the year. Gonna take a few days off to recoup." You still have to come in and round, write notes, do scut work etc etc despite the fact you have been doing it for months and have mastered it from a med student point of view.