So is there a silver lining?

[calvnandhobbs68]

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No. Actually it doesn't really have much to do with medicine at all, it's mostly about sex, death, and drama that happens to occur in a dramatized hospital.

Sarcasm detector is off

 

[evilbooyaa]

1) You're not a medical student.
2) Quiet freshman.

Oh. My. Goodness. A high-school student giving advice to medical students.... that's rich. My brain is about to explode with the stupidity of all this.

Not everyone has a "calling" for medicine. Most of those people do fine. of course the pre-med thinks everyone is fairly compensated, and would offer to work for like 50k a year his entire life.

 

[nervouskid]

Hmm, well I'm sorry if I offended anyone by speaking out of turn. I was not calling anyone out, the OP asked for opinions, and I gave mine. Granted, I do lack the age/experience as most of you. An optimist like me should never enter such a place, I guess. You guys can be all down if you like, I myself am super pumped to have this awesome opportunity to become a doctor. I just do not see a reason to be so rude to others, especially one just stopping by to drop his opinion. I also don't see a reason to be so negative in life, but I guess there are some things us young kids will never understand.

 

[johnmendes]

Hmm, well I'm sorry if I offended anyone by speaking out of turn. I was not calling anyone out, the OP asked for opinions, and I gave mine. Granted, I do lack the age/experience as most of you. An optimist like me should never enter such a place, I guess. You guys can be all down if you like, I myself am super pumped to have this awesome opportunity to become a doctor. I just do not see a reason to be so rude to others, especially one just stopping by to drop his opinion. I also don't see a reason to be so negative in life, but I guess there are some things us young kids will never understand.

Give it time son, med school has a particularly large c***meat sandwich waiting for you.

 

[evilbooyaa]

Hmm, well I'm sorry if I offended anyone by speaking out of turn. I was not calling anyone out, the OP asked for opinions, and I gave mine. Granted, I do lack the age/experience as most of you. An optimist like me should never enter such a place, I guess. You guys can be all down if you like, I myself am super pumped to have this awesome opportunity to become a doctor. I just do not see a reason to be so rude to others, especially one just stopping by to drop his opinion. I also don't see a reason to be so negative in life, but I guess there are some things us young kids will never understand.

I mean you're entitled to your opinon, it's just thoughts like this that make me cringea little:

personally chalk it up to this- if you do not love it, there is no way in hell you should do it. If it is not your calling, there is no way you should consider it because of the massive toll on your life and commitment it takes to become an MD.

you are called Dr. (seriously, women dig it), you are pretty much the boss when you walk into a room in a hospital (that may be exaggerated, but you get my point),

 

[IJL]

Give it time son, med school has a particularly large c***meat sandwich waiting for you.

Hahahaha

 

[JourneyAgent]

Give it time son, med school has a particularly large c***meat sandwich waiting for you.

Well, there could even be a silver lining to a cock meat sandwich depending on your disposition. Which a look at this thread makes apparent. What's the up side of something is a personal question with a personal answer. I mean, what's the upside of bad @ss kids that aren't yours? But to the parents of them....? I mean Aaron Hernandez was prolly always a cold blooded f'er. But there's a proud mom or somebody somewhere who is making mental leaps of how their baby boy is innocent and misunderstood right now.

What I think is stupid are uniform prescriptions of it all sucks or perhaps more repulsive to my mind, the "it has to be a calling" motif. Puerile, superstitious, nonsense that. Imported and downloaded religious software into an area that it functions poorly in. If you've takin the leap to say that some agency has preordained and selected you for something and that you've imbued it with such intense self-importance, then your assessment is worthless to me at least. And you've gone and put the bat **** in your crazy.

But for others maybe not. Your running program might fit theirs and they'll agree.

I tend to fit the medical school as cock meat sandwich mindset, one because it's funnier, but it also prevents me from relinquishing what I'd rather not. And allowing me a space of realism with that which I spend all of my time doing.

But I do think medicine is a fine career. And am happy with it.

If I could offer the "calling" or "optimist" people any advice it's that some of us just enjoy dark humor about what we do. It's a disposition. A technique for making the mundane tolerable. And not to take it personally. And to go on being optimistic.

It's a self-selective process. And as such another's choices should be irrelevant, ultimately.

 

[Silent Cool]

Well, there could even be a silver lining to a cock meat sandwich depending on your disposition.

Best SDN post ever. Hall of fame, I think.