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16 THINGS YOU’LL ONLY UNDERSTAND IF YOU’RE A MEDICAL STUDENT

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  1. Hala

    Hala Golden Member Verified Doctor

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    1) Getting hungry during Anatomy sessions.

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    Casually discussing lunch options over an open cadaver or comparing a human lung to a melon is a common part of anatomy dissection.

    2) Practicing OSCE’s on each other over and over and over and over

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    ‘Hi, My name is _____ and I’m a Third Year Medical student. I’ve just been asked by the Doctor today to have a look at your heart, would that be okay with you?…’ Sound familiar?

    3) Watching all your friends graduate, getting jobs and getting married and you’re still in med school like…

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    4) Never-ending ward rounds ‘shadowing’ doctors and you’re just like…

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    Shadowing = doing absolute jack shit and floating around after doctors whilst they act like you’re not there. It should be called ‘Ghosting’.

    5) Night shifts/ On-Calls

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    It should be illegal to have to stay at a hospital for that long and not get paid for it

    6) Medical Student Syndrome

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    Being convinced that you have every disease you learnt that week and driving your GP insane. ‘I have a headache…and I’m always tired…I MUST HAVE KAWASAKI’S DISEASE.’

    7) Gunners

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    They suck up to Consultants and volunteer to stay in the hospital for longer when you want to go home, making you look like a flake. And they should stay in the hospital for longer…more like forever…in the mental health unit.

    8) Having to learn a whole new language worth of medical words

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    9) Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies

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    10) Taking all those entrance exams and interviews and wondering if it was all worth it

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    11) Realising that Scrubs is all based on LIES.

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    12) Using House and Greys Anatomy to revise

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    13) Having to keep composed in Digital Rectal Examinations

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    14) Ending up talking about medicine to your medic friends and your one non-medic friend is like…

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    15) Still not having an answer for the dreaded question: “So why do you want to do Medicine?”

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    16) You spend so long trying to get into medicine that once you got in you were like…

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    hahahah
    true
     

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    hahaha
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    Quite impressive and really a hard work and answer to the questions by your senior doctors. Actually they want you to be more and more perfect. ha ha ha ...
     

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    yeah OSCEs practice....! you cant forget it! just like morng prayer!
     

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    Very good
     

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    Yea, why DO you want to become a doctor? I am sure the interview boards have heard it all. Mostly "because I want to help people". Priests to prostitutes want to help people. It is like the last loaded gun question in the interview board's arsenal and it is a good one.
     

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    hahaha.......true
     

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    Hahahaha! :D yeah right.
     

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    hhhhhh exactly :)
     

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    hahaha , absolutely true !!!
     

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    Very true
     

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    Lol! That's really true!
     

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