Wednesday, August 8, 2012
For those of you who read my blog, I love you!
Just wanted to say a quick hi to all those blog readers out there. All five of you haha. I also wanted you to know that I love the comments you leave on my blog and I'm hoping that thisblog helps some of you feel less alone out there in medical school. I absolutely hated it, but I made it through. I am enjoying my residency in psychiatry. I really hope that it is worth it for all of you out there struggling through the process of medical school. I hope that everyone enjoys their decision to go through medical school and become a doctor. I'm not even sure I'll continue to love it, but for now I'm enjoying it. I'm glad to be out of medical school and hope things will continue to go well. You'll all be okay. And contact me if you feel any need to! I'm here for all of you! It's going to be okay, and the adventures of residency are a fun story all in themselves.
Good luck out there!
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As someone who found your blog as I was taking my step 1 boards, I just wanted to say thank you. I struggled my way through the first couple years, and you've made me feel like maybe I'm not an idiot after all. Now I'm in my third year, and I'm scared to death, but you've given me hope that maybe I can survive this. I think you'll make a great psychiatrist. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that I stumbled onto your blog! It's really refreshing to hear another medical student being able to admit feeling this way. Hope to read more posts. I wish I could find someone in my class like you. It would certainly make some days feel relatively normal.
ReplyDeletetrust me there are people in your class who feel the same way, they are just too chicken to say anything about it. Find them and love them! They will get you through!
DeleteI left my first comment on the same day u left this one:) So I kinda feel like you were speaking to me. At least I will pretend you were. I come back to your blog every time I feel a little desperate for a pick me up. These posts always seem to make me feel better.
ReplyDeleteNot that I feel so special that you would remember a post I left for you (considering I'm labeled anonymous), but just to distract myself from the dreadful Monday approaching in a few hours I will go ahead and indulge.
I discussed how I managed to fail my first exam of my 2nd year for no other reason, then I just couldn't force myself to care enough. Well, on the bright side, I managed to do very well on the last exam in which my own professor wrote me a personal congrats email (which says a lot coming from a class of 230 people AND from an individual who's only goal is to remain unnoticed... which isn't panning out so far- considering I had to meet with him to discuss my failing performance). So that's all fine and dandy. I still made my first C though. But at least I passed right?
But now I have a whole new set of issues relating to multiple policy changes taking effect this semester resulting in a continuing loss of some sort of dwindling sense of freedom I foolishly felt entitled to. Like the freedom to leave for lunch and the freedom to plead the 5th! But no! Now we get to look forward to "mandatory lunch-ins", and the fear of being issued a "non-professional conduct report" for not submitting a complete evaluation after every time a course is complete- I shit you not! We wont even receive our final grade! Like we have nothing better to do, than eat a box lunch and spend 30 minutes checking a hundred (agrees). I mean honestly, I would love to let them know how I really feel, but these evaluations were not designed for us to express how we really feel. Unfortunately I did write an email to the testing service dept (which estd this new policy) and then that unfortunately forwarded my email to the course director.... the one who just came to know me this semester:/ So hello the new "rebellious" me unleashing a harmless opinion on a matter demanding our opinions. How freakin ironic if I actually get in trouble for this.
So anywho, this kind of wraps up my huge explanation of why I am back on your blog and indulging myself in stories from a person who (felt) as hopeless as I do. Not much can be done to make tomorrow disappear, or to change the fact that I HATE my school, but I am so happy that you ended up happy:) And that is all I really needed to hear.
So thank you!
That is embarrassingly long:/ I am so sorry
ReplyDeletenope it was awesome and I loved it. Thanks! also way to stand up for me. I'm glad you "understnd" me!
DeleteHey there! I am a fourth year medical student and I just stumbled upon your blog today. I resonate with so many of the things you've written here, I can't even fathom it. It's like you are in my head :). Many times I look at the other students around me and they are all so bright eyed and dreamy and eager and enthusiastic and I can't help but wonder if I am cut out for this. I am currently in the midst of an Obs and Gynae rotation and I am emphatically not loving it (Like you, I love psych). I try to remember what you said though and I'm trying to focus on the positive fact that I will learn something great and that it's only for 8 weeks. Anyway, it just feels good to know that I am not alone in experiencing the pit falls and challenges of medicine, so thanks for this.
ReplyDeleteHello .. procrastinating and stumbled upon this blog..
ReplyDeleteGetting to the end of first year .. and feeling like no one else understood while I sat here thinking. . . GOD I HATE THIS .. . somehow I think I got onto that jaded burnt out 3rd year thing early ... haha. . I'm hoping that I'll get through and like it in the end like you :)
Hello! I just stumbled upon your blog and am loving your posts. I'm not sure you'll see this since it was so long ago, but do you have any advice for current students who struggle to believe they'll become competent physicians due to grades in school??
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