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[gyges_ring]

I was going to write a post about how I used to like my current year-mates, until I realised that about 70% are in medicine purely for the money and prestige, with no ulterior motives, and are happy to hijack any rhetoric to achieve that end. (Background: We got an ortho tute today from, with the exception of Jill, the best surgical reg I have ever

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[gyges_ring]

Initially: Because I could

Now? I probably stick with it because I'm a bright young male, who's unlikely to ever need to support a family. So I'm pretty much the ideal person to be doing med (by my reckoning). I'll have about (conservatively) 40-odd, uninterrupted years, to be able to do something where I don't really need to set aside any time for family or other commitments, where I'm unlikely to need money to support dependents, and I'm unlikely to want to leave a financial legacy behind. What better could I be doing?

[anonymous]

Hey Tom, as someone who has been in two med year groups and is finishing their seventh and final year of medical school, let me say her behaviour is very rare. I've never seen a student act even close to that disrespectfully to a doctor. Have you dealt with this girl before? Does she have a reputation for this kind of nonsense in her yea rgroup? I suspect this girl's (narcissistic?) personality traits are going to destroy her career in medicine sooner rather than later.

[gyges_ring]

Well, it's actually odd. Because this isn't the first time I've seen this in this current year group. I think the RPH group may have filed a formal complaint about Simon Dimmitt's PBLs on cardiovascular medicine. I was a bit quiet about it, because, in all fairness, he's completely mad, and I can understand if people don't like him much, even if he can reference pretty much everything he says (excluding politics) to study and year. But then they also got the diversity people in to talk to us about racism and sexism (for unrelated reasons I'm not sure about). And then then both the year reps were in the tute today, and they were quite happy with the criticism. One was even chiming in with comments like "So it's just in the culture then, the sexism?"

My attitude is basically: there are reasons this person wouldn't get a traineeship in surgery, and it has nothing to do with her gender. But I didn't get the feeling that she was really stretching the tolerance of the tute group. Quite the opposite.

[nyaow]

and also our old year group.

[flyingmopsy]

What are your thoughts on Infinite Arms?

Was meaning to say the other night, but

[gyges_ring]

It's OK. By which I actually mean that it's very listenable, but not particularly remarkable. I'd have a hard time picking out some of the songs as being Band Of Horses if it were just on the radio or something.