In a meeting for an admissions committee, and audience members were saying volunteering isn’t enough anymore. Applicants should have started NPOs or businesses. The director replied “I’m very concerned that we’re burning premeds out before they even start medical school.” ���️
the best decision i made in medical school was to move to the closest city and cultivate friends there. it was initially really lonely but paid off in spades within months
i think this framing is important because: (1) all jobs with such practical, essential skills deserve respect and (2) physicians are skilled workers who can also be exploited unless we work together
unless you’re also a researcher actively “generating knowledge,” physicians are a vocation closer to plumbers and electricians than to scientists #ChangeMyMind
With #SOAP2022 I just want to say I didn’t Match into Psychiatry twice and scrambled into a Family Medicine program last year. The ways I grew during my research year, and my unplanned swerve into FM, have been the best things that have happened to me.
Like make no mistake, it was difficult. I shopped for InstaCart to make rent and had to publicly own failure to a family with high-expectations. I sometimes feel pangs from that failure. However, I’ve also built a life I never thought I’d have, and I’m eternally grateful for it.
What drug name do you take pleasure in pronouncing after a patient butchers the shit out of it?
Don’t lie and say Levetiracetam, even Jesus calls it Keppra.