July 2011
9 posts
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doubts and med school.
Anonymous asked: Hi! Your blog is really awesome, I spent the whole morning poring over it, just so you know :) I’m supposed to be geared up for med school, and reading your blog comforts me a lot, since I have grown increasingly doubtful of my position as a pre-med student for the past few months.
I’m still having those doubts, though. I can’t get rid of the thought that...
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the real med school.
Med school isn’t about the grades or the assignments or even about strutting around with a stethoscope around your neck playing pretend doctor.
It’s the afternoons spent eating m&ms and reading DamnYouAutoCorrect in the computer labs (that’s for you, mushrooom). It’s the breaks spent in the clinical labs with your friends, working out the nicest, politest, most...
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something to never forget.
Remember this when you’re struggling in med school and your grades aren’t what you want them to be and things pretty much suck: everyone in the hospital wants you to succeed.
Your tutors and seniors and consultants aren’t out there clapping their hands with glee every time you take a hit. They aren’t laughing every time you fall into bed at one am, almost crying from...
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good days at med school.
You know you’re having a good day when not one, but several patients compliment you on your outfit.
Now, only if that were examinable material.
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sage advice.
From a patient during ward rounds: “Now, don’t you go to too many discos this weekend, girls and boys!”
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reasons why my little sister is awesome.
Me: [insert bad joke here]
Little sister: That's humourous! [points to her radius]
Me: [cracks up lauging]
Little sister: [looks confused]
Me: That's not your humerus!
She gets brownie points for trying. And it totally made my day.
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help-seeking and med school.
Okay, storytime. When I was fourteen, my best friend tried to kill herself.
I was the one that she called right before she did it. I didn’t do anything. I sat and waited and hoped for the best, but I didn’t do anything. I didn’t know what to do.
It’s easy to say that I was only fourteen and that maybe I can be forgiven. But I regret it almost every day. (For the record,...
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