Last Minute Doubts

[Crayola227]

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Parrotfish, that's just what I needed. You're right about the other careers. My friend who graduated from Stanford is still having a hard time finding a job that pays more than 70K starting and he was a 3.8 finance major. I think the pressure of school is combining with the highly competitive mindset that I was raised with to make me doubt this. It could also be that being a doctor in Obama's america could seem worse. Maybe if a republican comes into office after I am done with medical school the culture will change and things won't seem as dreary.

I think maybe I just need to keep scores up and go after a shorter residency that I enjoy.

money is not going to be the great determiner of your overall satisfaction with medicine as a career

without even going into Democrat vs Republican, I wouldn't hold my breath that any politician comes in riding on a white horse and makes everything so much better in our currently broken medical system and makes practicing a joy again

 

[sliceofbread136]

Internship actually looks kind of fun to me. Haven't you ever watched scrubs?

 

[ProfMD]

Internship actually looks kind of fun to me. Haven't you ever watched scrubs?

Great show. I actually think it is the most accurate representation of life as a resident!

 

[Crayola227]

Great show. I actually think it is the most accurate representation of life as a resident!

It was funnier as a pre-med and med student.

Watching it as a resident was sorta therapeutic because it validates some of your experiences, but OTOH some of those jokes lost their punch when you realize how much of a joke it isn't.

There's a saying when you study Don Quixote, that you should read it as a young man, a middle aged man, and an old man, because at each phase of life you'll get something different out of it

I adapted that for Scrubs and medical training. Watch it as a pre-med, med student, and resident, because in my experience I've gotten something different each time. I don't know if as an attending things shift to where you identify more with Dr. Cox instead of JD the protagonist???

 

[Perrotfish]

I adapted that for Scrubs and medical training. Watch it as a pre-med, med student, and resident, because in my experience I've gotten something different each time. I don't know if as an attending things shift to where you identify more with Dr. Cox instead of JD the protagonist???

Not if you're a Pediatrician