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 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:28:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Hoover http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-28857 Hoover Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:32:54 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-28857 Medical school in the US is four years. That's after completion of 4 years of college for an undergraduate degree. Medical school in the US is four years.

That’s after completion of 4 years of college for an undergraduate degree.

]]> By: Biljana http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-28839 Biljana Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:00:13 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-28839 Hey I'd just like to ask you all: How many years is med school in your country (and what country do you live in?). Because all of you here talk about only 4 years, while the duration in my country is 6 years... Please write ASAP :) Hey I’d just like to ask you all: How many years is med school in your country (and what country do you live in?). Because all of you here talk about only 4 years, while the duration in my country is 6 years… Please write ASAP :)

]]> By: adl http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-18419 adl Fri, 23 May 2008 22:24:10 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-18419 I'm reading this from the vantage point of seven years of clinical practice as first an OB/GYN and for the last 5 years as a GYN-only. If you guys are having second thoughts about medicine and definitely if it's making you depressed, get out now. I loved my first two years of medical school. The second two were ok, but I should have paid attention to the change in my enthusiasm and my grades. I absolutely HATED Ob/GYN residency and now hate private practice. I knew I should have quit after my first day of residency, but all I could think about is the debt I owed and how I would pay it. Now I own my own practice and am in the process of selling it and going back to school to get an Master of Public Health in Health Policy. This decision has come after 7 years of soul-searching and career counseling, and I am so stressed out because I want everything to work out so I can get out of the profession. I realize now that I shouldn't have worried about paying back my $76,000 student loan because I've had to pay $31,000 in an insurance tail just to stop practicing OB and will have to pay another tail of $66,000 when I quit altogether, so this puts the student loan in perspective. If I had realized I would like something like policy 11 years ago, I could have done it then, made as much or more money than I make now and paid off my student loan with no trouble, but I had no one to advise me back then. Oh well, things happen when they're supposed to, but all I have to say is if you know you hate it now, do yourself a favor and get out ASAP. I’m reading this from the vantage point of seven years of clinical practice as first an OB/GYN and for the last 5 years as a GYN-only. If you guys are having second thoughts about medicine and definitely if it’s making you depressed, get out now. I loved my first two years of medical school. The second two were ok, but I should have paid attention to the change in my enthusiasm and my grades. I absolutely HATED Ob/GYN residency and now hate private practice. I knew I should have quit after my first day of residency, but all I could think about is the debt I owed and how I would pay it. Now I own my own practice and am in the process of selling it and going back to school to get an Master of Public Health in Health Policy. This decision has come after 7 years of soul-searching and career counseling, and I am so stressed out because I want everything to work out so I can get out of the profession. I realize now that I shouldn’t have worried about paying back my $76,000 student loan because I’ve had to pay $31,000 in an insurance tail just to stop practicing OB and will have to pay another tail of $66,000 when I quit altogether, so this puts the student loan in perspective. If I had realized I would like something like policy 11 years ago, I could have done it then, made as much or more money than I make now and paid off my student loan with no trouble, but I had no one to advise me back then. Oh well, things happen when they’re supposed to, but all I have to say is if you know you hate it now, do yourself a favor and get out ASAP.

]]> By: Hoover http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-9341 Hoover Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:29:15 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-9341 It never got better for me. I hated third year more than first and second year combined. In fact, it got worse. I absolutely hated clinical medicine. It never got better for me. I hated third year more than first and second year combined. In fact, it got worse. I absolutely hated clinical medicine.

]]> By: Pauli http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-9340 Pauli Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:55:34 +0000 http://www.medschoolhell.com/2007/05/25/when-did-i-realize-medicine-wasnt-for-me/#comment-9340 I was a first year med-student, and am on leave because I was so damned depressed and essentially burned out. Ive never quit anything in my life, so this was really hard to swallow, and is why I am even thinking about going back. So many people say "it gets better after the first two years". Im just wondering how true this is, and if you think its worth it to go back. Keep in mind I was literally barely passing my exams, and was losing my mind. How could something that made me feel this way ever turn into something good. I may have answered my own question here, but just wondering what others thought I was a first year med-student, and am on leave because I was so damned depressed and essentially burned out. Ive never quit anything in my life, so this was really hard to swallow, and is why I am even thinking about going back.

So many people say “it gets better after the first two years”. Im just wondering how true this is, and if you think its worth it to go back. Keep in mind I was literally barely passing my exams, and was losing my mind. How could something that made me feel this way ever turn into something good. I may have answered my own question here, but just wondering what others thought

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