more interested in people than in science...

[huzzfuzz]

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it just seems like i'm more interested in the things that directly affect the health and well being of people than in all this scientific stuff...like for instance i could care less about the various phyla of plants and single celled organisms and stuff...it only holds my interest if it can be directly applied to the health of the human body...

i don't know if any of that made sense but does anyone else feel this way?...sometimes i just want to them to skip all the crap and teach what i need to know to be a doctor...even though they sort of are already...

 

[Textuality]

Haha, no, I'm the same way. In some sense, I see being a physician as much as a Service job as it is a Science job and I do better in classes that are more centered on how to apply the sciences to bettering patient care or understanding human pathology. No worries though, after the basic chem/bio/physics/orgo stuff, things become more "clinical" in the upper level electives if you want them to be. For example, I took Behavioral medicine, Neuroscience of Pain, and pyschopharmacology etc. You just have to tough out the basic science years, it pays off in the end 🙂

 

[MsGujilicious]

Yes!

I'm so sick of plants! So far, the entire semester of Bio lab has been.. plants.. it's driving me crazy!😱
I don't mind learning about cells and everything else, though... But i'd rather learn more about the health of the human body, too

 

[huzzfuzz]

Yes!

I'm so sick of plants! So far, the entire semester of Bio lab has been.. plants.. it's driving me crazy!😱
I don't mind learning about cells and everything else, though... But i'd rather learn more about the health of the human body, too

i know!...i about lost my mind with it all!...we're finally through with the whole botany section...thank God!...i hate plants now...with a passion...

 

[huzzfuzz]

Haha, no, I'm the same way. In some sense, I see being a physician as much as a Service job as it is a Science job and I do better in classes that are more centered on how to apply the sciences to bettering patient care or understanding human pathology. No worries though, after the basic chem/bio/physics/orgo stuff, things become more "clinical" in the upper level electives if you want them to be. For example, I took Behavioral medicine, Neuroscience of Pain, and pyschopharmacology etc. You just have to tough out the basic science years, it pays off in the end 🙂

that is such a relief to know...i was beginning to wonder if there was something wrong with me!

 

[Drogba]

Don't even remind me of plant biology. How sad that this would be combined with human physiology in the same semester.

If I was interested in science I would do a PhD. I'm fascinated by basic science, but no more than many other things that captivate me. I'm more interested in social science. Most practicing physicians are not doing anything related to basic science even if treatment protocols are rooted in this. My MD/PhD would be in Medical Sociology/Anthropology if I wanted to spend the extra 2-4 years in school.

 

[pakbabydoll]

I don't know, I like plant stuff. I am weird, but its interesting to me.

 

[huzzfuzz]

Don't even remind me of plant biology. How sad that this would be combined with human physiology in the same semester.

If I was interested in science I would do a PhD. I'm fascinated by basic science, but no more than many other things that captivate me. I'm more interested in social science. Most practicing physicians are not doing anything related to basic science even if treatment protocols are rooted in this. My MD/PhD would be in Medical Sociology/Anthropology if I wanted to spend the extra 2-4 years in school.

see i wouldn't mind being in the md/phd program if i could get it for that kind of focus...but most schools only offer hardcore science phd options...

 

[HumidBeing]

😍plants.

 

[Thewrongstuff]

I hate xylem
I hate phloem
Simply cuz for med school and in life, you don't gotta know em.

 

[Quix]

Bio I and II instilled a deep and abiding hatred of botany and ecology in me. I really hated that they were on the same tests as anatomy and physio.

 

[CCLCMer]

it just seems like i'm more interested in the things that directly affect the health and well being of people than in all this scientific stuff...like for instance i could care less about the various phyla of plants and single celled organisms and stuff...it only holds my interest if it can be directly applied to the health of the human body...

i don't know if any of that made sense but does anyone else feel this way?...sometimes i just want to them to skip all the crap and teach what i need to know to be a doctor...even though they sort of are already...

Everyone feels this way and wonders why the heck we have to learn some of this stuff, including med students. Make a game out of it and focus on getting the job done and doing really well in your classes. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but unfortunately you have to take some classes you aren't all that thrilled about along the way. If you make the best of it, you'll come out the other side with that MD or DO in hand. Good luck. 🙂

 

[GoldShadow]

I don't know, I like plant stuff. I am weird, but its interesting to me.

Haha, me too. I actually enjoyed that semester of bio. Granted, I have absolutely no desire to continue learning about them, but I didn't hate it like every other premed I know.

But without a doubt I enjoy animal and human and cellular biology much, much, much, much, much, much, much more than plants and ecology. Actually, I hate ecology... it's the plants I don't mind.

 

[chemphd]

I look at it this way. I'm probably not going to be super interested in learning about everything that comes at me in medicine either. It's good practice for learning to retain information that to me seems irrelevant (or I would be able to look up in real life situations). Keep your game plan in mind, and you'll make it🙂

I personally didn't mind botany- my issue was memorizing all of the thermodynamics formulas in p chem😛

 

[TexanGirl]

Haha, I hate learning about ecology and plant biology. I stick through it by telling myself though that having a well-rounded knowledge of everything, even at the basic level, will prove to be useful someday. Yup, I'm just waitin' on the day. 🙂

 

[MsGujilicious]

I hate xylem
I hate phloem
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and circles!
I hate circles
everything is a circle in plants! drawing the cells was a pain. all my drawings for lab are a bunch of circles o_________o