It never ends!

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[NSAIDAllergy]

Can't sleep; the clowns will eat me.
Can't sleep; the clowns will eat me.
Can't sleep; the clowns will eat me.
Can't sleep; the clowns will eat me.
Can't sleep; the clowns will eat me.
Can't sleep; the clowns will eat me.
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Can't sleep; the clowns will eat me.
Can't sleep; the clowns will eat me.
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Can't sleep; the clowns will eat me.

 

[lsumedgirl]

I feel like I'm Bill Murray in the movie "Groundhog Day." Everyday, the alarm goes off, and it's the same ole' sh**. Can't study anymore... ready for test to be over with... only two more days...

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

Its true - it doesn't end. But now I'm on spring break, and pretend it does.

 

[cfdavid]

yeah, it would definitely be a stretch to call the preclinical years "exciting".....

 

[arsenewenger]

Yeah, It never ends and it will really never end. The onslaught of lecture materials aka handouts, the never ending lectures, the badly worded exam questions, the myriad of different characters aka fellow students you interact with on a daily basis make the whole process more hectic than it ought to be. It is true that many of us are on spring break,we still have to study nonetheless.

 

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[Chizwheel]

You guys are funny. You think it's bad now with your 4-8 hour days of lecture. Try 12-36 hour shifts 7 days a week with 4 days off a month, working weekends, no spring break, no summer break, working christmas, thanksgiving, new years, and everything else. Actually, no need to listen to me, you will see...

 

[HEADintheCLOUDS]

You guys are funny. You think it's bad now with your 4-8 hour days of lecture. Try 12 hour shifts 7 days a week with 4 days off a month, working weekends, no spring break, no summer break, working christmas, thanksgiving, new years, and everything else. Actually, no need to listen to me, you will see...

Yeah working is fun, studyng and nothing else is not.

 

[IheartCaffeine]

You guys are funny. You think it's bad now with your 4-8 hour days of lecture. Try 12-36 hour shifts 7 days a week with 4 days off a month, working weekends, no spring break, no summer break, working christmas, thanksgiving, new years, and everything else. Actually, no need to listen to me, you will see...

Depends on the residency. If you do radiology, derm, psych, path, etc. you won't work nearly that much.

also, i did my ob/gyn and surgery rotations. i know how time consuming and exhausting the life is. but i find it hard to have sympathy for surgery/obgyn residents because they chose that life. you knew exactly what you were getting yourself into, and you decided to do it anyway.

sorry, that post sounded more dickish than i intended.

 

[smq123]

but i find it hard to have sympathy for surgery/obgyn residents because they chose that life. you knew exactly what you were getting yourself into, and you decided to do it anyway.

I actually kind of envy you. I tried, really really really hard, to like a lifestyle specialty. I really did. I just couldn't make myself.

Ophtho: Residents were nice. Hours were even better. Patients were oddly neurotic about med students in the room - more neurotic than the pregnant women on L&D! Got kind of bored looking at eyes all day. I like operating, but couldn't imagine operating in such a tiny field.

Rads: Walking into the reading room creeped me out on a consistent basis.

Anesthesia: A lot of sitting around, hoping that stuff doesn't happen. Just couldn't see myself being interested in it.

Path: Need patient contact.

Derm: Don't have the numbers to get in; don't like doing solely outpatient stuff anyway.

So it came down to OB/gyn or surgery for me.... The hours were bad, but I really liked the work...what can you do?

 

[la petite mort]

Well, it's the most important profession there ever was. It's bound to be tough as hell.

Just try to remember that all the people you envy with leisure time aplenty to spend will one day wonder what their worthwhile contribution was to the world. You won't have to.

 

[mjl1717]

Depends on the residency. If you do radiology, derm, psych, path, etc. you won't work nearly that much.

also, i did my ob/gyn and surgery rotations. i know how time consuming and exhausting the life is. but i find it hard to have sympathy for surgery/obgyn residents because they chose that life. you knew exactly what you were getting yourself into, and you decided to do it anyway.

sorry, that post sounded more dickish than i intended.

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[mjl1717]

Depends on the residency. If you do radiology, derm, psych, path, etc. you won't work nearly that much.

also, i did my ob/gyn and surgery rotations. i know how time consuming and exhausting the life is. but i find it hard to have sympathy for surgery/obgyn residents because they chose that life. you knew exactly what you were getting yourself into, and you decided to do it anyway.

sorry, that post sounded more dickish than i intended.

I don't get it.. And Im not buying that!! Because in derm, rads, and even psyche.. I was under the impression that one needs at least a half year to 3 years of Internal Medicine!!

My point is that no matter what ANYONE says, unless you are a clone of Sir William Osler there is just no easy way!!!..

My advice would be if you get ANY signs, symptoms or even bleeding during this saga. Dont complain because they will say you are always whining.. Keep fighting!

 

[Chizwheel]

Depends on the residency. If you do radiology, derm, psych, path, etc. you won't work nearly that much.

also, i did my ob/gyn and surgery rotations. i know how time consuming and exhausting the life is. but i find it hard to have sympathy for surgery/obgyn residents because they chose that life. you knew exactly what you were getting yourself into, and you decided to do it anyway.

sorry, that post sounded more dickish than i intended.

Even though there are discrepancies amongst different residency work hours, you will never have more free time than you do now (except when you retire and your M4 year). Even though studying takes up all your time and is oustandingly miserable, at least you still have control over your hours, when you want to study, when to go out, procrastinate, skip class, etc. Try doing that as a resident and you'll be fired faster than a 7.62 mm round out of a Hezbullah AK-47. You'd be surprised that the rads residents, ophtho, pysch, path, etc residents do work some pretty rigorous hours at times. I agree that surgery and medicine residents often work far longer hours but every residency is more life-controlling than med school is.

(except derm, those bastards really do never work...)

 

[DocPsychosis]

Try doing that as a resident and you'll be fired faster than a .45 round out of a Hezbullah AK-47.

Way, way off topic, but this bugs the hell out of me. AK-47s fire a 7.62 mm bullet; .45 is pretty much just a handgun caliber. Sorry for the threadjack.
As you were. 👍

 

[Chizwheel]

ah...sorry. I'm not as savvy on my ballistics. I'll change it in my above post.

 

[SocialistMD]

Anesthesia: A lot of sitting around, hoping that stuff doesn't happen. Just couldn't see myself being interested in it.

I don't see anything wrong with that; every night on call I do the same thing.

 

[HQAMIGO]

you know in the "good ol' days" of medicine, the way to assuage one's existential angst was to abuse lower ranking members of the health care team. got a bad day? scut out some poor schmuck. attending yell at you? roll your eyes when a "dumb question" is asked. of course, this doesn't work if you are the low man on the totem poll, i.e. MS3's but it was bearable cuz you still believed in some of that crap you wrote on your AMCAS application about helping people and stuff. now that they require everyone to be super pc, you can't take it out on any body no more. no wonder there is more dissatisfaction amongst the medical profession.

 

[45408]

ah...sorry. I'm not as savvy on my ballistics. I'll change it in my above post.

the MP5 is a cooler gun than an AK-47 though

 

[njbmd]

It definitely ends and very quickly. I am sitting here at the end of the tunnel and it went by fast.