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Question - Are medical school students, i.e your colleagues, as mean as SDN Allo students?

My hope is that since only a small % of pre-med students hang out on SDN, maybe medical school students are not as mean as Allo students here. I am shocked by how mean everyone is here. Even females. One female who will be my colleague at Harvard Extension {who I will not name} first accused me of harassing her over email and then apologized to me profusely in a private message, said she wanted to be friends with me and accused someone else of harassing her over email. I contacted the guy who she said was harassing her and spoke to him over the phone. He turned out to be a surprisingly nice guy {my future roomie at Harvard Extension} who was actually helping her with textbook information. He forwarded all email correspondence between them. We learned she was telling him I was harassing her over email, while she was telling me he was harassing her over email. In short, she asked him to rescue her from me while asking me to rescue her from him.

If your colleagues in med school are as mean as students on SDN Allo, how do you cope with them? Just swallow the unpleasantness?

Or is it just anonymity that brings out evil in people? In which case, don't your medical colleagues try to scr*w you behind your back????????

If your colleagues are mean - and I have heard surgeons are especially mean - how does this affect your choice of specialization? I will be more inclined to choose a specialization where I won't have to interact with other doctors much, so Emergency Medicine is out. I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

 

[linusp]

I wouldn't say SDNers are mean. Neurotic, many. Sarcastic, some.

 

[FattySlug]

That's an unrelated example that you gave to demonstrate the meanness of SDN. Did you get flamed for starting useless thread?

 

[DrYoda]

Question - Are medical school students, i.e your colleagues, as mean as SDN Allo students?

I wouldn't describe any of my classmates as mean. One person I find annoying, but not mean. SDN isn't really a mean place either.

I will be more inclined to choose a specialization where I won't have to interact with other doctors much,so Emergency Medicine is out. I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

Your going to have to deal with other doctors.

 

[texasm]

That's an unrelated example that you gave to demonstrate the meanness of SDN. Did you get flamed for starting useless thread?

Not that I recall.

 

[texasm]

I wouldn't describe any of my classmates as mean. One person I find annoying, but not mean. SDN isn't really a mean place either.

Your going to have to deal with other doctors.

I heard from a few people on the DO forum that the Allo forum is brutal.

 

[linusp]

I heard from a few people on the DO forum that the Allo forum is brutal.

We may not be holistic enough.

 

[DrYoda]

I heard from a few people on the DO forum that the Allo forum is brutal.

The allo forum isn't mean. If I had to pick a word to describe it it'd be depressing since a large amount of posts are by the minority of people who are failing a class/failed one of the steps ect. Plus posts about how terrible being a med student is.

Also, perhaps you should go look for yourself before judging...

 

[Political]

Question - Are medical school students, i.e your colleagues, as mean as SDN Allo students?

My hope is that since only a small % of pre-med students hang out on SDN, maybe medical school students are not as mean as Allo students here. I am shocked by how mean everyone is here. Even females. One female who will be my colleague at Harvard Extension {who I will not name} first accused me of harassing her over email and then apologized to me profusely in a private message, said she wanted to be friends with me and accused someone else of harassing her over email. I contacted the guy who she said was harassing her and spoke to him over the phone. He turned out to be a surprisingly nice guy {my future roomie at Harvard Extension} who was actually helping her with textbook information. He forwarded all email correspondence between them. We learned she was telling him I was harassing her over email, while she was telling me he was harassing her over email. In short, she asked him to rescue her from me while asking me to rescue her from him.

If your colleagues in med school are as mean as students on SDN Allo, how do you cope with them? Just swallow the unpleasantness?

Or is it just anonymity that brings out evil in people? In which case, don't your medical colleagues try to scr*w you behind your back????????

If your colleagues are mean - and I have heard surgeons are especially mean - how does this affect your choice of specialization? I will be more inclined to choose a specialization where I won't have to interact with other doctors much, so Emergency Medicine is out. I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

bro-tip, chicks dig drama

 

[Mithril]

We're all cynical ass holes trying to emulate the great Dr. House.

 

[MaenadsDance]

Question - Are medical school students, i.e your colleagues, as mean as SDN Allo students?

My hope is that since only a small % of pre-med students hang out on SDN, maybe medical school students are not as mean as Allo students here. I am shocked by how mean everyone is here. Even females. One female who will be my colleague at Harvard Extension {who I will not name} first accused me of harassing her over email and then apologized to me profusely in a private message, said she wanted to be friends with me and accused someone else of harassing her over email. I contacted the guy who she said was harassing her and spoke to him over the phone. He turned out to be a surprisingly nice guy {my future roomie at Harvard Extension} who was actually helping her with textbook information. He forwarded all email correspondence between them. We learned she was telling him I was harassing her over email, while she was telling me he was harassing her over email. In short, she asked him to rescue her from me while asking me to rescue her from him.

If your colleagues in med school are as mean as students on SDN Allo, how do you cope with them? Just swallow the unpleasantness?

Or is it just anonymity that brings out evil in people? In which case, don't your medical colleagues try to scr*w you behind your back????????

If your colleagues are mean - and I have heard surgeons are especially mean - how does this affect your choice of specialization? I will be more inclined to choose a specialization where I won't have to interact with other doctors much, so Emergency Medicine is out. I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

Why do I find myself doubting the word of a man who refers to women as females...

 

[NightGod]

Why do I find myself doubting the word of a man who refers to women as females...

Female seems like a solid choice here. She's definitely not acting like a woman or a lady and girl is occasionally considered insulting.

 

[kcin]

bro-tip, chicks dig drama

this

 

[KLycos]

Just think about the type of people that gravitate towards posting on an internet forum, and you will realize why so many people here are "mean". Doesn't matter if it's a pre-med forum, it's still the internet.

 

[aSagacious]

So, um... 17 threads started in less than a month. Are we thinking about maybe slowing up next month?

 

[NickNaylor]

OP made a thread on SDN whining about SDN?

lol

 

[km17]

OP made a thread on SDN whining about SDN?

lol

OP got banned.

 

[aSagacious]

OP got banned LIKE A BOSS.

Fixed

 

[km17]

Fixed

This 👍😀

 

[lkthlttr]

Amazed he made it an entire week.

 

[ozzi22]

i don't think he was trolling unless i'm missing something here 😕

 

[lkthlttr]

i don't think he was trolling unless i'm missing something here 😕

In my discussions with him I got the impression that he was either trolling or the most obtuse person on these message boards. Either way I'm fine with the decision.

 

[UnclePhil]

In my discussions with him I got the impression that he was either trolling or the most obtuse person on these message boards. Either way I'm fine with the decision.

I could see trolling, but based on his posts and threads I'm leaning towards this.

 

[Thoughtfulness]

He got banned for saying that people on this board were mean?

 

[UnclePhil]

probably got banned for this little nugget of wisdom:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=11327190&postcount=134

along with the general obnoxious herp derp.

 

[Mithril]

Lots of derp in this thread:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=841099

 

[ozzi22]

Why did OP get banned? I actually was wondering this too, im a frequent lurker and some people on here are just brutally mean.

is that you texasm?

 

[KLycos]

Why did OP get banned? I actually was wondering this too, im a frequent lurker and some people on here are just brutally mean.

Frequent lurker who joined today to participate in this thread ^.^

 

[Jennet]

*facepalm*

Gonna edit this post and take some advice offered later in the thread. Just leaving well enough alone.

Tough love. Excellent.

 

[SitraAchra]

People have reputations on SDN that matter in real life?

 

[Jennet]

Meh. It doesn't matter.

 

[RogueUnicorn]

w..tf?

 

[SitraAchra]

Jennet, just to be clear, no one knows who you are in real life and no one cares. That isn't meant to be rude, it's meant to knock you from this middleschool vibe of "I'm being cyber bullied and my life will never be the same!" mentality.

If you hadn't posted any of this, no one would have been the wiser. Why can't you just ignore the people upsetting you?

You realize your overreactions are what's fueling all of this. Just to reiterate, none of this matters, at all.

 

[ozzi22]

Jennet, just to be clear, no one knows who you are in real life and no one cares. That isn't meant to be rude, it's meant to knock you from this middleschool vibe of "I'm being cyber bullied and my life will never be the same!" mentality.

If you hadn't posted any of this, no one would have been the wiser. Why can't you just ignore the people upsetting you?

You realize your overreactions are what's fueling all of this. Just to reiterate, none of this matters, at all.

+10000000 👍

 

[Jennet]

Jennet, just to be clear, no one knows who you are in real life and no one cares. That isn't meant to be rude, it's meant to knock you from this middleschool vibe of "I'm being cyber bullied and my life will never be the same!" mentality.

If you hadn't posted any of this, no one would have been the wiser. Why can't you just ignore the people upsetting you?

You realize your overreactions are what's fueling all of this. Just to reiterate, none of this matters, at all.

Ya, you're right, I appreciate it. To be honest I was nervous at first because of exactly what you're talking about: I thought it mattered in some way. Entering school again as a non-trad made me think I needed to be extremely calculated in everything. Gonna just lay low for awhile and try not to stir the proverbial pot.

 

[Jennet]

+10000000 👍

All I could think was, "Power times 10 million!? UNBELIEVABLE! How can he be SO STRONG!?"