Yes, Surgeons Are Assholes

Hoover  2 Nov, 2008  Surgery

6 Comments so far »

1. DrDFW said

   November 13 2008 @ 7:27 am

   After spending a little time reading through your page yet again, I have to say—-for someone who decided medicine wasn’t for them, you spend way too much of your time trying to get the word out to others that it’s the worst thing in the world. You seem to have a bit of an obsession.

   There have been things I’ve been a part of in my life that I decided weren’t for me. But never would I devote so much of my time to telling others it’s not for them after I chose not to partake in such activities. In trying to “put a magnifying glass” on the world of medicine, you seem to tell us a fair amount about yourself in the process.

2. Hoover said

   November 13 2008 @ 10:48 pm

   Hey, I appreciate the psychoanalysis.

   This blog started with me wanting to vent while in medical school and is now a hobby that I spend very little time with at the current time.

   The bottom line is that I think people going into medicine really need to know what it’s all about before they get themselves knee deep in debt.

   Why do I do it? Perhaps so one or two people won’t make the same mistake that I did. I can’t tell you how many “thank you” type emails I get from this site. You’d be surprised if you really knew how many people despise medicine and medical education.

   If I want to spend a very small amount of my free time educating others before they make that dive into medical school, then I’m going to do it.

   I just told you a little more about myself. Fuck what anyone thinks about it, too.

3. jim said

   November 14 2008 @ 10:00 am

   You always rock Hoover

4. mudphudder said

   November 27 2008 @ 11:40 pm

   That’s cold dude.

5. MD said

   December 4 2008 @ 5:06 pm

   Perhaps you fancy yourself a “catcher in the rye” for an entire generation. Good for you, you’re doing the world quite a service. I suspect your personality issues may be worse than any surgeon you ever worked under; otherwise you’d have been able to handle some of the things you complain about a little bit better.

   As for medical education, there were things I despised about it for sure. You do occasionally make some valid points. I also despised certain things about high school. And college. And jobs I held over the years when I was a teenager. But I recognized the importance of them, got through it, and moved on having learned from the experience.

   The question you have to ask yourself along the way is, “do the ends justify the means?”

   And if the answer is yes, then the next question you should ask yourself is, “am I going to let this abusive resident/attending/ridiculous medical school curriculum requirement, etc. get in my way of doing what I want to do?”

   And if question number 2 you answer “no”, then you stick it out and come out on top. At that point you can say you didn’t let the bastards get you down.

   A different approach would be to fold, go home and blog about it, and hope people follow your lead to make you feel better.

6. DoctorRight09 said

   December 14 2008 @ 11:51 pm

   The ends do justify the means, but med school is a rocky road, for sure.

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