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[theanatomist]

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Good Evening All,😉

Backstory: 23 yrs. old, married, with one child. Currently, I am finishing up my undergraduate coursework in English, and looking towards Post-Bac programs.

Sometimes I get overwhelmed, between home life, school, and just the path towards becoming a physician. What do you do in the meantime, while taking prerequisites, and all that entails. I feel like medicine has become an obsession and I frankly don’t want it to be. I am reading books like 'Intern' and 'OnCall', watching Discovery Health, and just being plain ridiculous with it. I want to enjoy the ride there, but I want to be prepared as well. On your way to a medical career what do you spend the time doing? Is it valuable to be reading up on the life of a medical student/doctor? Is it better for read books focused on the science(s)? Because I am not a science major currently, I feel like I am behind the eight ball, causing me to read material and so on. I decided that I wanted to become a physician after completing some volunteer work in the hospital, and taking a few science courses that were very fascinating, I knew that’s what I wanted to spend my career doing. The immeasurable education and the service to others in medicine is just greatly appealing to me.


Do you read medical related books/watch shows obsessively? What is it that you do when you’re not in class? Just curious. I just want to be informed and well prepared,but I want to have fun on the way there. Advice is much appreciated. Thanks so much!😎

 

[FrkyBgStok]

find at least one thing that you love that has nothing to do with medicine. I love to read and I LOVE the "Song of Ice and Fire" series. Knights and Castles fantasy stuff. It is my release, and over time, you will get more releases.

 

[Bluesun]

find at least one thing that you love that has nothing to do with medicine.

+1

I do Brazilian jiu-jitsu. It's like a moving meditation where my brain can't think of anything else because I have to stay so focused. It's a daily release of stress, helps me stay in shape, and it gives my brain a break. I highly recommend it 🙂.

 

[rrt]

find at least one thing that you love that has nothing to do with medicine. I love to read and I LOVE the "Song of Ice and Fire" series. Knights and Castles fantasy stuff. It is my release, and over time, you will get more releases.

If it weren't for this series, and Dota (game), I'd don't know how I'd get through working long nights of normal sleep studies. The movie really lived up my expectations (series). I like that it follows the book as much as possible.

 

[Morsetlis]

Watching porn has nothing to do with medicine, right?

 

[theseeker4]

Watching porn has nothing to do with medicine, right?

Depends...does it involve nurses? ;-)

 

[medceg]

Watching porn has nothing to do with medicine, right?

As long as you don't name the anatomical parts as they appear, porn is an excellent hobby.... 😛

find at least one thing that you love that has nothing to do with medicine.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/member.php?u=76083Agreed. Watching House MD is all fine and dandy, but if you don't want to go crazy, find something else!

 

[dmf2682]

I run. I'm going to have to stop the full marathons and drop down to halves though, just because there's no time to train.

I've also decided to make a study into the wonderful world of whiskey. Favorite so far is Bernheim wheat whiskey.

 

[Thales]

Sometimes I get overwhelmed, between home life, school, and just the path towards becoming a physician. What do you do in the meantime, while taking prerequisites, and all that entails. I feel like medicine has become an obsession and I frankly don’t want it to be. I am reading books like 'Intern' and 'OnCall', watching Discovery Health, and just being plain ridiculous with it. I want to enjoy the ride there, but I want to be prepared as well. On your way to a medical career what do you spend the time doing? Is it valuable to be reading up on the life of a medical student/doctor? Is it better for read books focused on the science(s)?
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Do you read medical related books/watch shows obsessively? What is it that you do when you’re not in class? Just curious. I just want to be informed and well prepared,but I want to have fun on the way there. Advice is much appreciated. Thanks so much!😎

Just finished reading On Call, White Coat, and Intern. I enjoy Trauma: Life in the ER on Discovery Health. Personally I balance my time between college (psych major), amateur body building, scuba/free diving, volunteering at a local hospice, martial arts, exercise, and occasionally video games. As far as books on science/med life, I say yes if you enjoy it. I've always been interested in virology, bacteriology, and infectious disease so I just read two great books on the bubonic plague. After reading them I spent some time around one of my professors who has her PhD in biology and MS in genetics, she teaches micro at my college so she dug into the science with me. I've taken some classes like AP 1/2 + lab that help me dig into things medically more than a layman. Balance it all and make sure you're enjoying it.