What’s So Cool?

Hoover  4 Nov, 2006  General, Lifestyle

What’s so cool about saving somebody’s life? Can’t you just call 911 like everybody else does?

Is it some popularity contest, just like you had in high school? Do you tell your friends and neighbors about your medical school experience with pride?

Do you feel like you’ll get more pussy at the bars if you tell them that you’re a medical student? I used to think that, but the pussy was as frequent as before my acceptance.

Does your wife or husband realize that you’ll be working like a slave to uphold some underground celebrity status that nobody else knows about?

I don’t know. Do you?

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  1. QCOMDRJ said

    February 12 2007 @ 6:08 pm

    Who knows. Some guys just like to act like that. There was a guy at my school who wore his white coat to the undergrad campus to study on the lawn, because it made it easier to pick up chicks.
    Some guys like to “pimp” girls at the bar that are in nursing or pharmacy schools. Maybe we just attract a strange breed.
    Or maybe people just don’t get laid enough in medical school.

  2. Anonymous said

    February 12 2007 @ 6:08 pm

    Curious - What’s next? What do you want to do? Investment banking, day trading, septic pumping, landscaping, entrepreneurship? What’s next? You are good and you can write. So maybe a book?

    I like your writing. Your message might suck to those who would go through hell in order to become a physician.

    So I wonder what your back-up is.

  3. Hoover said

    February 12 2007 @ 6:09 pm

    Thanks for the compliments.

    Definitely not a book =)

    I’ve got a nice gig in technology at the current time. It’s related to medicine.

  4. Anonymous said

    February 12 2007 @ 6:09 pm

    If you ask the person whose life was saved what was so cool about it they’ll be able to give you a concrete answer.

    It isn’t about celebrity status, popularity, or pussy.

  5. Hoover said

    February 12 2007 @ 6:09 pm

    Tell that to the person who wears their white coat into Barnes & Noble, or who begins every pickup line with “I’m a medical student, and…”

  6. getunconcsious said

    February 12 2007 @ 6:10 pm

    Saving someone’s life is ok i guess, but not for me…that’s why I’m all about Pathology. No patients, no H&P’s.

  7. Hoover said

    February 12 2007 @ 6:10 pm

    Yep, path certainly has its advantages.

  8. Anonymous said

    February 12 2007 @ 6:10 pm

    I just stumbled across your blog–a few of my friends in residency echo you same thoughts. If they had to do it over, they wouldn’t have gone to med. school.

    I’m curious, what would you have done instead?

  9. Hoover said

    February 12 2007 @ 6:11 pm

    I probably would’ve focused on computer science and worked toward a Ph.D.

  10. Anonymous said

    February 12 2007 @ 6:11 pm

    I’m just an MSI but as I began my medical education I realized that it is just NOT worth it. I mean, the sacrifice. I am NOT a martyr and I refuse to join the club.
    I’m not even halfway into my first year and I’m starting to think about alternatives to residency but I am totally lost. Would you mind sharing some options from where I could begin my research? Thanks and keep updating!!

  11. dude1344 said

    May 4 2007 @ 3:03 pm

    Found this blog thru SDN. Quite informative. I’m applying this cycle and am currently on 5 WLs. Just graduated with an engin degree and this newfound perspective will definitely give me a hard decision to make if i do indeed get in.

  12. Anonymous said

    July 5 2008 @ 6:01 pm

    Hey, I switched out of a computer science PhD program, ranked #1 in the world, to enter med school, and I can tell you that they BOTH suck, although the PhD program sucked more! Med school has been so much better, in terms of social life, etc. I can’t even begin to tell you how lonely and oppressive CS PhD education was (and I have an IQ of about 150, probably).

    I also have a bachelor’s in computer science, and I can tell you that CS students should stop their CS education there and use it to earn an income. You’ve already done the optimal thing, apparently (besides going to med school).

    I love your site, dude!

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