#and i just met with my premed advisor and i now will have to take a gap year between graduating from undergrad and med school and im soo mad

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Sorry this took so long but I was tagged by @mj-md! I am feeling very lazy this weekend so I figured now is as good a time as anyyyyy. 

Where are you from? Somewhere on the East Coast of America. 

How old are you? 26

Are you an applicant, student or medical professional? I am a student - MS3.

When did you decide you wanted to be a medical professional? Oph...this is hard for me. I think it was something that was in the back of my mind for a while, but it wasn’t a conscious decision until about sophomore/junior year of college. Up until then I was taking premed classes because I liked the subject material and wanted to major in neuroscience, but one day I was like - so I should figure out if I can to do this. I met with the premed advisor towards the end of my sophomore year and she basically was like ‘if you want to I think you can do this.’ I subsequently spent the next four years figuring out if I wanted to while still doing all the pre-med stuff. I’ve definitely changed my mind a lot along the way...sometimes I still do...but I keep coming back because it is just. so. fun. 

What did you do before deciding to go to medical school? I went to college. Then I got a Masters in Philosophy in London because....it seemed fun. Then I spent a year nannying/working retail/hanging out while I applied to school. 

What area of medicine are you really interested in? Literally everything. Someone help me....

Do you plan to/ Do you/ Did you work through medical school? If so what as? LOLZ. As stated above, I did work in retail during my time off so I considered working at the same store in med school town first year, but I quickly jumped off that parade. 

What’s your most rewarding moment working/ studying in health care? Family Med rotation - I sat across from a woman for 30 minutes as she told me about how her crippling anxiety stops her from working out and going to the gym and so she felt like a failure. I was able to recommend a workout program that worked for me that she could do for free at home and she left that day with a huge smile on her face. I still think about her sometimes because I want to know if it worked and if she feels better. But basically almost every day in FM I had one of these patients. It was very rewarding. 

What’s your most embarrassing moment working/ studying in health care?

Ummm I actually can’t think of one...I’m wondering if it’s because I don’t embarrass easily because I’m sure I’ve done a lot of stupid things (I’m a third year afterall...). 

So I’ll just stick with this funny story: When I was on urology I finished up a case one day and my resident is like “I’ve got to put these orders in, you go to tumor boards and I’ll meet you there.” Idk what tumor boards is. I think it’s a casual meeting with the residents. And I show up and it’s this beautiful conference room with a huge table and like three attendings and I’m looking around and thinking....where do I sit? There were so few people there that I felt weird sitting on the side, but then what if I regret this later? So I just...sit down at the table. Of course as people fill in, the table gets full of attendings and I’m still the only non-attending there and I’m just like god damn I hope my resident comes soon. And sure enough about 15 min in he shows up and he sits on the edge of the room away from the table. Well now I’m sweating because I definitely should not have sat at this table. And I’m like trying to come up with an exit strategy while I just slowly push my chair further away from the table every second and then I come up with a brilliant plan - I will get up, throw away from trash from lunch, and then sit down at the edge of the room. The execution was flawless. I laughed about it later with my resident and my friends. I’m 99% sure no one cared where I sat anyway. 

Whats the best piece of advice you have ever received? Just because we can’t pursue all our dreams at once doesn’t mean we won’t be able to achieve them all at some point.

What advice would you give others? If you feel stressed: stop working. Go outside and walk. Call your best friend. Come back in 30 minutes.

Oh and I almost forgot to tag some peeps: @slowdownsimplybemd @runner-kat @texanmdtobe @wishbone-md and anyone else interested!