The Life Arc vs Specialty Plot

[startoverat40]

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Oh just to complete the pattern for your evaluation.

My secondary goal to psychiatry is palliative medicine. But again from hanging around one. And gauging the focus of the career. I realized that end of life medicine is actually very complex. You have to be a good internist. And that takes a passion for nuts and bolts pathophys. And the whole tour of duty managing chronically horribly trainwreckingly out of shape america.

While the psycho/social aspects are intriguing. An IM tour of duty is less so. As is any of the other reasonable preparatory fields.

Psych is interesting. The training is doable with my personal fitness goals. The life arc fits.

Done.

Slow cultivation--comfortable in my sincerity--of allies begun.

sounds similar to the type of reasoning and conclusion reached by the interns in "House of God" 🙂 I guess it's better to reach that conclusion before you subject yourself to the pain of IM internship, than afterwards.

 

[Nasrudin]

sounds similar to the type of reasoning and conclusion reached by the interns in "House of God" 🙂 I guess it's better to reach that conclusion before you subject yourself to the pain of IM internship, than afterwards.

Yeah. That's the idea. Going after that knowledge. Going up river on your own man. Before their on the other end of the clip board pimping you. They shovel the work at us. Give us a peek of the show and then boom. ERAS time. Good luck lil f'ers.

I ain't takin it that lightly. What I'm going to be doing with most of my waking hours until I depart.

The point of this thread is to shake the usual propaganda. Failing to do so is acceptable to me. Not trying to communicate an insight that i feel strongly about, that might help somebody, is not right.

Cause there's only a few things I do feel strongly about. Chief among them is that we all get there with our **** together. Replete with loving relationships intact. And our physical and emotional selves strong.

All of the things medicine would rob. Like candy from babies.

(Glad your kid is doing better. Best wishes)

 

[startoverat40]

(Glad your kid is doing better. Best wishes)

it wasn't my kid who was sick, it was Lifetake2. but my kid's doing well too, thanks 🙂

 

[Nasrudin]

it wasn't my kid who was sick, it was Lifetake2. but my kid's doing well too, thanks 🙂

sorry. Best wishes to him then. I don't know him. So i just sent him good thoughts for his kid without posting.

Come to think of it. There's lots of names that are unfamiliar to me now. I've been through many generations of posters here. All of the ones I know have moved on. Time for me too.

So. I'm turnin this thing over to you guys now.

Here's the beeper. Help who you can.

I'm not like Q. The conversations have to be interesting to me after a certain point.

Apparently I fail. When trying to communicate things in ways I find amusing.

So. This just isn't any fun anymore. There's nothing that interesting about somebody else's premed career. Unless I can engage the way I like too.

I haven't always been the best. But in my own way. I've tried to help.

So good luck all. More than luck. Be wise.

 

[NuttyEngDude]

aww just drop by now and again nas, it makes us all happy! 🙂

 

[Nasrudin]

aww just drop by now and again nas, it makes us all happy! 🙂

Yeah man. I'm not tying to be dramatic. It's just. Even I can grasp futility.

Really I mean. SDN is habit to me.

It's just I'll be in the Psychiatry Forum or the clinical rotation forum.

Call me for a consult anytime. But new threads and working for interesting angles that I can reference my favorite stuff. nope. You gotta quit before you get booed off. Showbiz man.