Ennui?
by dr-exmedicWith graduation comes much rejoicing. Yay.
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I’ll spend the next 3 years of my life in lovely Pittsburgh, PA, at Allegheny General Hospital.
Today is Match Day, the annual holiday of medical students (and immigrating doctors) all across America, when we find out where we are to spend the next phase of our training–in my case, 3 years of Emergency Medicine. Also, it’s only 78 more days until graduation…not that I’m counting. Bonus link: a review of an appropriately-titled book, [...]
I hereby pledge my undying love to medicine’s second most famous oath.
Overheard among medical students talking about their 4th-year rotations: Student 1: You’re doing ER? Do you really like working hard or what? Student 2: I didn’t think it was going to be hard….
It doesn’t take a pastor to pray with a patient, although the pastor is probably more comfortable doing so than anyone else in the hospital.
I know that times are tough, and state money is hard to come by, but I still believe there are probably certain things a medical school trying to raise a buck should be above.
Conflicts of interest abound in both medicine and medical school–but it’s not always the doctors who are conflicted.