Awhile back I had requests to set up a forum. I never got around to it, but here they are now. Nothing fancy, hell it doesn’t even match the main site. But, I’m about to retire the old MSH theme and get a brand spanking new one, anyway.
So, here it is. I’ll try and answer questions as much as I can, but I’m pretty much leaving it up to you guys to get shit started. If it dies I’ll pull it, but hopefully it can be a decent resource once some solid discussions get going.
What the fuck is with all of the hate recently? I’ve seen a huge increase in the amount of comments directed towards me and questioning why I still update this site since I’m out of medicine.
Don’t worry about what I’m doing and go save some lives. Seriously, get a fucking life and don’t worry about me updating this blog. I’m actually starting to think some of you guys have stalking issues.
Let’s take a look at some of the recent comments. ‘MD’ is my favorite commenter lately:
If sleeping in every day and playing WoW makes you feel fulfilled, by all means do it. And if you are going to look back on life with a sense of pride and feel that you had a meaningful existence in doing so, then by all means make yourself happy. I can promise you I’ll never devote a blog to why your ways are wrong or what I don’t like about it.
What the fuck? Do you actually think I sleep in every single day and play WoW all day long? I run a company doing 7-figure revenues every year and you think I play WoW all day? I don’t give a fuck about ‘being fulfilled’ and ‘contributing to society.’ What I care about is my bottom line and financial security for the future. Nothing more, nothing less. Like I’ve said time and time again, it’s all about the Benjamins.
MD will never devote a blog to me because he simply doesn’t have the time. If you think you have the time while practicing medicine, I challenge to you start one that becomes more popular than MedSchoolHell.
Don’t lie to yourself and think it’s about anything else, either. You want money just like the next guy, and you want to obtain it with the least amount of work possible. Fuck all of this “contributing to society” crap that’s been rehashed over and over. That shit is tired, get over it.
I’m not going to lie and say I don’t sleep in regularly and play games a lot. I do. But, I still run a successful company. I have a lot of “free time.”
I love what I do not only because it’s very interesting to me, but also because it gives me an insane amount of freedom to do what I want, when I want.
The Hatorade drinkers like ‘MD’ are really just pissed that they have to wake up each morning at the ass-crack of dawn and go into work while I snooze it up for a few more hours. I can do what I want, when I want while they have to ask for time off and put up with patient care issues while pretending to “feel good” about what they do for a living. Whatever, I see through that shit like saran wrap.
That’s honestly the nuts and bolts of all of the negative comments I’ve received lately, and if you feel differently, please let me know in the comments.
I really do appreciate all of you guys linking back to this site. It’s high time that I did an appreciation post, so here goes. Forgive me for not giving out detailed information about your blogs, but I really don’t have the time.
I’ll be doing these “appreciation” posts more regularly now that I’ve slowed down posting the ranting-type shit to this site. I find which sites to post links to by who is showing up in my incoming links area in WordPress.
Thanks again guys, and keep it real.
Fun with analytics, looking at keywords driving traffic to this site:
Surgeons are assholes. True story.
As I was looking through my comments tonight, I saw a very insightful comment left by someone who goes by the name of “Deaner.” He or she was responding to my post entitled Medical Students v 2.0. That post is very old, so I wanted to repost it here so that it will get some views. He or she makes some very good points, and it’s an incredibly well-written comment. Here it is, thanks Deaner:
I was recently describing the generational difference to a group of friends. Generation X and Y. Its not that we are “entitled, lazy, arrogant or non-caring.†It isn’t even that we leave in the midst of patient care and never would we refuse to be involved in an opportunity for education– as the physician above implied. This is a misinterpretation by an older generation that comes from their lack of regard to our goals, our mission and our acute understanding of our surroundings.
Looking at the physicians that make up today’s medical field, we are able to deduce the effect that traditional medical education has on its participants. We the older generation of physicians who are bitter, overworked, validation (read: money)-hungry doctors many of whom practice medicine without respect to the patient and without love for their work. We (generation X and Y) on the other hand, are committed to our own sanity, health and future. We want to be good doctors. Period. So when we see inefficiency and ineffectiveness in medical education, which leads to suffering and sacrificing of health, we want to fix it. We recognize that it takes not just one, but two elements to allows us care of patients in our fullest capacity:
So we put our heads together to change what could be better. Cut out anything that is either impinging on one of the stated elements without fulfilling the other. Why? So we have more free time to play? No. Because we think we are too good for traditional methods? No. Because we think we’ve somehow earned it? No. Because we don’t care about medicine? Absolutely not. We want to fix it because we want to be good doctors. We want to learn every second that we are not working to stay healthy (sleeping, eating, feeling.) We know that we must stay positive (not resent the hospital or our patients) in order to open our minds to allow the maximal amount of education to enable us to be both wise and compassionate doctors.
We refuse to have our potential to be great and healthy physicians stripped from us by our experience with medical education.
I am not bothered by older doctors saying “blah, blah, we worked so much harder than you…†Instead, I pity them. I pity them for justifying their misery but ridiculing our commitment to change.