If you want to recover faster from setbacks then skip the "why me" phase entirely and go straight to "what now." Victim mindset isn't just a feeling, it's also a sentence structure.
Change the sentence and you change the trajectory.
I love people who are intellectually omnivorous.
The kind who can discuss folklore, black holes, bird migration, poetry, and grocery store pricing in a single conversation without getting lost.
Miyamoto Musashi was right when he said do not count your defeats before the war is over. One victory can make them all forgotten. You are not behind. You are one breakthrough away from erasing every loss.
When your patient with hypertension is an engineer and you ask them to bring a blood pressure log to their next appointment ๐
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A final-year medical student once complained that his school was "watering down standards" because lectures were being recorded and uploaded online.
He argued that in his day, students had to wake up at 5 a.m., sit through 4-hour lectures, and copy notes by hand. "That's how doctors are made," he said.
A professor asked him a simple question:
"If I could magically teach you the same medicine, the same clinical skills, and the same professionalism without the sleep deprivation, endless note copying, and attendance rituals... would you refuse?"
He didn't answer.
Hence my take.....Medical education often confuses suffering with learning. Some of the hardest parts of training produce excellent stories, not necessarily excellent doctors.
Being exhausted, hungry, overworked, and sleep-deprived may build resilience, but they're poor teaching tools. The goal should be competent, compassionate physicians not proving who can survive the most unnecessary hardship.