Comments on: Why It’s Not A Sign Of Weakness

By: LB

LB — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:02:06 +0000

You know I’m just wondering if those attending physicians forget that they ever complained too. Weak Bitches. lol.

I was an engineer once. I guess I came here just to prove doctors aren’t really smarter than us normal people. I proved that, but now I’m stuck forever.

By: Med School Hell » Medicine Is Serious Business

Med School Hell » Medicine Is Serious Business — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:06:36 +0000

[…] You’ve been up for 36 hours on call and you still have a conference to attend in 4 hours. Hey, complaining is a sign of weakness. […]

By: littlemissmessy

littlemissmessy — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:07:42 +0000

Haha…Thanks Hoover.

Now I know where my mom got this from. Yes, she’s a doctor. I always needed to “toughen up” and stop being so “weak.” “Life is hard.” “Nothing easy is worthwhile.” I never missed a day of school for being sick. In my mom’s eyes I was never sick…because I didn’t know what it meant to be sick. She had “seen real sickness.”

She went to medical school in the 70s. I heard they were worse then.

I think she has post-traumatic stress disorder or something. It’s not cute.

By: V Mitchell

V Mitchell — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:31:53 +0000

As the medical student is taught that taking time off is a “sign of weakness”, he begins to believe that this is in fact the case.

I love this site. I have been married to a Neurologist for 31 years. Went through Med School and Residency married. I was the laundry and cook bitch. But what did I know, I was in love. I still love the crazy geek, but I still get ‘must be nice’ when I take a day off work to catch up on housework, etc., LOL I wondered where the attitude came from–thanks for sharing. Those of us in medicine know what you are sacrificing. Save some time for yourself, and IT IS NOT A SIGN OF WEAKNESS. You should be the leading lady (man) in your own life (borrowed from a movie line). By the way, I am a nurse, and I LOVE medical students. They listen to me and we take care of people together–the way it is supposed to be.

By: Dr. Lam (and darn embarrassed to carry the title)

Dr. Lam (and darn embarrassed to carry the title) — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:31:52 +0000

Man,

I almost collapsed from neuroleptic shock reading what you wrote because they are so to the point! Medical school is the biggest waste of my four years. It’s almost worst than prison. However, you did highlight some very good points that I coincidentally took from this whole nightmarish ordeal in your “letter to medicine.” I hope more people would see this truth and be man/woman enough to say so. I’ve been saying it for the past two years now in my wards and have been belittle and looked down upon as the “weaker” and “dumber” medical student. Thanks to medicine, I’ve learnt patience and humility that would make such envious commentators even more green with jealousy when I drive around town in my new luxe car going to my luxe house.

Goodbye med school. Goodbye hell.

- J