Med school. That place that society associates with high grades, ambition, high levels of stress and concern for people's health. However, there's something very crucial about med school that a majority of people are oblivious to and that is the fact that amidst the gruelling schedules and high calibre exams, there is also the fact that we learn so much about life. This is to be taken both metaphorically and literally. We study the human body, we study how life exists biologically and physically but also emotionally and mentally. We learn about the dynamics of a group of peers under one common stressor, through our own personal experiences during our time here together.
A variety of people pass thru med school. We meet people from all walks of life and yet a lot of us find it difficult to put ourselves in their shoes and actively empathise with them. I am just as guilty of this crime as the others and I take full responsibility for that. It hasn't happened just once but numerous times with different kinds of characters. I fail to stand strong in what I believe to be the truth because more often than not, I feel like I do not know as much as the others for my opinion to matter. How wrong I have been, on 3 different counts.
Life lessons are probably the most important kind of education that one can take away from this place. There will come a time when all the information we need as doctors will simply be given to us on a tablet and we only need to find out how all these pieces fit together in the puzzle. Without emotional development on the other hand, we may be lost, not knowing how to deal with a particularly difficult patient or even a colleague.
This place may be foreign, it may make me feel like fish out of water but these taxing circumstances all work together to bring out the worst in us. What we do with those traits is entirely up to us: we can either identify and acknowledge them to work towards a better version of ourselves or we can simply deny them, claiming that this is just the way we are now and there's nothing to be done about it.
A variety of people pass thru med school. We meet people from all walks of life and yet a lot of us find it difficult to put ourselves in their shoes and actively empathise with them. I am just as guilty of this crime as the others and I take full responsibility for that. It hasn't happened just once but numerous times with different kinds of characters. I fail to stand strong in what I believe to be the truth because more often than not, I feel like I do not know as much as the others for my opinion to matter. How wrong I have been, on 3 different counts.
Life lessons are probably the most important kind of education that one can take away from this place. There will come a time when all the information we need as doctors will simply be given to us on a tablet and we only need to find out how all these pieces fit together in the puzzle. Without emotional development on the other hand, we may be lost, not knowing how to deal with a particularly difficult patient or even a colleague.
This place may be foreign, it may make me feel like fish out of water but these taxing circumstances all work together to bring out the worst in us. What we do with those traits is entirely up to us: we can either identify and acknowledge them to work towards a better version of ourselves or we can simply deny them, claiming that this is just the way we are now and there's nothing to be done about it.
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