Comments on: Medicine Is Serious Business

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:12:14 +0000

“Graduation was all such a farce. The speaker talked of saving lives, excitement to be “real doctors,” etc. Meanwhile, everyone in our class is either ROAD, trapped in medicine by debt, extremely jaded & hating their life, or too dumb to notice the unending malaise that is clinical medicine.”

Brilliant.

By: jimbo

jimbo — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:59:17 +0000

Just found the site…love it! Graduated from medical school, literally yesterday. My thoughts are that I wish I could find one of those things in Men in Black where they zap your eyes & your memory from the last, oh say, 4 years is erased. I would just as soon forget all the unpaid labor and douchebag students/professors I’ve encountered. Graduation was all such a farce. The speaker talked of saving lives, excitement to be “real doctors,” etc. Meanwhile, everyone in our class is either ROAD, trapped in medicine by debt, extremely jaded & hating their life, or too dumb to notice the unending malaise that is clinical medicine.

By: S. Solja

S. Solja — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:27:27 +0000

@shining hector

any chance you’d be willing to share your experiences / reasons for buyer’s remorse? I think it would benefit a lot of us who are contemplating a career change into medicine.

thanks

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:14:23 +0000

Did Charity Doc write this?

Does anyone know what happened to him?

By: Shining Hector

Shining Hector — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:31:01 +0000

Yeah I’m a non-trad with a bit of buyer’s remorse, too, and have to agree with the others to think this through. What’s soul-sucking about engineering that wouldn’t be about medicine? It’s honorable, socially valuable work. Do you hate the legal mess, bureaucracy, paperwork, repetitiveness, long hours, folks much less knowledgeable than you telling you what to do all the time? The grass really isn’t any greener over here. If you just want to deal with people more, there’s probably lots of ways to retool your current career path to get there and end up earning as much or more than a doctor that don’t involve going into massive debt and missing out on income for the better part of a decade of your most productive years.