Hey buddy,
I'm sorry to hear that you've had some difficulty with this exam. I'd especially like to apologize for some of the other people on this forum and there responces. Sometimes I wonder what planet they're from...
Again, sorry for responces. It just shows you anyone can get an M.D. but few can be understanding and compassionate. Makes you wonder why they chose medicince.
Hahaha sticks and stones....
Oh man I am such a bad doctor, I must be such a terrible person, because I haven't checked by brains at the door and I haven't sacrificed honesty at the expense of an endorphin infused Carebear moment.
The OP has a communication issue which clearly is not as minor as they have been told and they expressed a suicidal thought. Do you know that they say it in jest? Can you tell if it is a serious intent? The answer is no and so I don't believe that this is a forum to assess this and as such gave them a number.
Let me teach you something else while I am at it...
Medicine IS pain. We cause pain all the time to heal...everytime we cut out a tumor we inflict pain, everytime I tell a diabetic to stop eating their mother's cake we inflict pain, when I tell a a psych patient that they are not going home unless I say because they can't control themselves THAT is pain.
It sounds sh**ty but really without pain compassion could not exist. Medicine isn't the only thing that teaches me this. Being a father also does. Sure it breaks my heart every time I have to ground one of them to their rooms, they may kick and scream and say Daddy isn't cool but its because I know something they don't...the tough love, the short-term pain, will bring a greater insight, and greater success, and help them develop the things they need to succeed. Telling them all the time that they are special and can do whatever they want only makes them mentally fat, slow, and stupid; all qualities that are the antithesis of achievement.
I am a grandchild of immigrants and have pulled myself out of homelessness and poverty, peoples' prejudice and skepticism, to medical school with honors, at the top of my class with humanitarian and achievement awards to reflect that effort. In spite of your cheap judgments I have compassion, not some useless trendy, fake pity version of compassion that is so popular with the naive, but one that comes from years of having been there, suffered, and learned that there is something on the other side. It is true I am not superficial and I never will be, because I know as difficult as it is to be honest in the end it will always give people the freewill and thus power to change their lives.
