Comments on: When Did I Realize Medicine Wasn’t For Me? http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/ A Cynical Look At Medical School and Medical Training Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:13:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Buy oxycodone without a prescription. http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-76716 Buy oxycodone without a prescription. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:12:37 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-76716 <strong>Difference between oxycodone and morphine....</strong> Sinemet oxycodone. Oxycodone.... Difference between oxycodone and morphine….

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]]> By: 11thDimension http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-66451 11thDimension Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:11:58 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-66451 Love your blog, Hoover. There is much useful tips around here, and feels kinda good to read thoughts coming from ppl with similar experiences. Anyway, I probably would have done it all again, because the same personality features that made me choose medicine in the first place, would still exist. Narcissistic, highly dependent on external validation, not competent enough in science to be a big-shot professor or the next Bill Gates. Medicine just seemed perfect to boost my ego. It didn't. Now I am stuck. Love your blog, Hoover. There is much useful tips around here, and feels kinda good to read thoughts coming from ppl with similar experiences. Anyway, I probably would have done it all again, because the same personality features that made me choose medicine in the first place, would still exist. Narcissistic, highly dependent on external validation, not competent enough in science to be a big-shot professor or the next Bill Gates. Medicine just seemed perfect to boost my ego. It didn’t. Now I am stuck.

]]> By: MA http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-65155 MA Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:28:40 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-65155 I feel like I knew before I started sending out applications that I might not want to do medicine. But it's always been a dream of mine so I decided to follow the dream. I'm an M2 and my first year was hell. I had no motivation almost from the get go. I was barely passing exams, depressed and hating every minute of it. The turning point came for me when I became suicidal toward the end of that first year. So I took a year off. I thought maybe I was just burned out from undergrad and during that year I tried to think of things I would do if I didn't go back to school but just couldn't see myself anywhere but in medicine and after 6 months out I started thinking "Oh, maybe it wasn't as bad I had made it out to be." So when my year was up and I still hadn't found something else I wanted to go I went back. Now the first semester of second year is almost done and I'm constantly thinking about how much I hate medicine. I don't dislike seeing patients I just don't want to be their doctor. I'm dreading, absolutely dreading third year. I watch my classmates and professors who get excited over medicine and I don't. Every time I'm required to go to class I suffer anxiety, restless nights. I'm thinking about dropping out again but I'm still where I was in first year...stuck. I feel like I knew before I started sending out applications that I might not want to do medicine. But it’s always been a dream of mine so I decided to follow the dream. I’m an M2 and my first year was hell. I had no motivation almost from the get go. I was barely passing exams, depressed and hating every minute of it. The turning point came for me when I became suicidal toward the end of that first year. So I took a year off. I thought maybe I was just burned out from undergrad and during that year I tried to think of things I would do if I didn’t go back to school but just couldn’t see myself anywhere but in medicine and after 6 months out I started thinking “Oh, maybe it wasn’t as bad I had made it out to be.” So when my year was up and I still hadn’t found something else I wanted to go I went back. Now the first semester of second year is almost done and I’m constantly thinking about how much I hate medicine. I don’t dislike seeing patients I just don’t want to be their doctor. I’m dreading, absolutely dreading third year. I watch my classmates and professors who get excited over medicine and I don’t. Every time I’m required to go to class I suffer anxiety, restless nights. I’m thinking about dropping out again but I’m still where I was in first year…stuck.

]]> By: Gayle http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-63693 Gayle Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:19:02 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-63693 If I had to mark one single point during my medical school career that I started having second thoughts, it was during this time. From the first day I stepped into a “real” patient room and starting asking questions to get more information, and then finally going into the physical exam, I started to realize this wasn’t what I had signed up for. ^ Exactly my sentiments. I'm halfway through 2ndyr med and I did not expect to feel this way. One thing I now know is that I don't want to deal with patients. My classmates say I should consider going into pathology in the future coz' they see me working well with the microscope BUT my pathology grades are just sad right now it feels like I have brain tumor already. If I had to mark one single point during my medical school career that I started having second thoughts, it was during this time. From the first day I stepped into a “real” patient room and starting asking questions to get more information, and then finally going into the physical exam, I started to realize this wasn’t what I had signed up for.

^ Exactly my sentiments.
I’m halfway through 2ndyr med and I did not expect to feel this way. One thing I now know is that I don’t want to deal with patients. My classmates say I should consider going into pathology in the future coz’ they see me working well with the microscope BUT my pathology grades are just sad right now it feels like I have brain tumor already.

]]> By: monica http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-63104 monica Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:16:48 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-63104 I just withdrew from a Caribbean medical school after 1 year, for similar reasons to those stated above by Pauli, I was depressed and sort of went crazy started partying alot, going to the beach to escape it the fact that I hated it, and found myself not really caring whether I passed or failed classes. it was really tough there because failing one class by 1 pt, I got behind almost 20K without any mercy from the school, got behind my class, in a class where students where thinking about organizing a protest because of how poorly it was organized. I also was passing my exams by pretty close margins the whole time. Also, as a woman, I didn't think I could deal with the next 8 years of my life or so working constantly in a hospital, when I might want to have a family life. It was just too much pressure. In the end, I just don't think I was born to be a doctor, I realized I'm not a cold hard scientist. Now, I just don't know what to do with my life and with my loans. I want to work with children and do something easy that will give me enough free time to pursue other interests like painting and playing the piano, but it's really hard to let go of the medical school dream, as there were some real highs and happy times in the process. I just withdrew from a Caribbean medical school after 1 year, for similar reasons to those stated above by Pauli, I was depressed and sort of went crazy started partying alot, going to the beach to escape it the fact that I hated it, and found myself not really caring whether I passed or failed classes. it was really tough there because failing one class by 1 pt, I got behind almost 20K without any mercy from the school, got behind my class, in a class where students where thinking about organizing a protest because of how poorly it was organized. I also was passing my exams by pretty close margins the whole time. Also, as a woman, I didn’t think I could deal with the next 8 years of my life or so working constantly in a hospital, when I might want to have a family life. It was just too much pressure. In the end, I just don’t think I was born to be a doctor, I realized I’m not a cold hard scientist. Now, I just don’t know what to do with my life and with my loans. I want to work with children and do something easy that will give me enough free time to pursue other interests like painting and playing the piano, but it’s really hard to let go of the medical school dream, as there were some real highs and happy times in the process.

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