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fenris-ranger · 3 years ago

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ah yes, the “there’s no way i can learn any of this in the next six hours but i feel like i need to at least pretend to try” all nighter before an exam, punctuated by such gems as

who goddamned cares what shape the virus is, is that going to get little johnny’s mother out of my ER without the unnecessary antibiotic script she’s demanding? no? then let’s move on

oh cool there were three whole diseases in that high-yield review chapter i have literally never heard mentioned in lecture that bodes fantastically

"proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin 9" that's like a fuckin doctor who planet or some shit, get this the fuck out of my textbook

and everyone’s favorite

i know my test is in six hours but is it too early to start drinking?

#don't go to grad school kids #or if you do it do it before you are old like me and have to deal with real life shit and cant just study 247 like the Youths #i dont know if it's a blessing or a curse that i cant even work up my standard pre-exam anxiety #these past few weeks have just been fucking insane and i think i'm out of cortisol or whatever #my thoughts #medical school is a bad idea friends #continues to be very biased against anybody who doesnt come from very specific places of privilege #the number of people in my (below bottom tier shitty) school who are still living off of family money #such that they don't comprehend how medical insurance works #baffles the mind #the whole system continues to elevate the old boys club and nobody is trying to change it!!!#meanwhile those of us who have experience being underrepresented minorities and fighting with insurance and advocating for/being patients #just get fucked #meddit this year was rooting on a match applicant on his 4th try who had no real red flags afaik but had to spend $19K just on apps #like what other world do you throw down $300k on tuition and then another $10k minimum on tests and applications to MAYBE get a job #the whole thing is barbaric and that's my thesis for today #EXPAND GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION #the average layperson has no idea that some 10k fully qualified doctors who passed all their classes all their tests just lose the lottery #if you don't go to grad-grad school (i.e. residency) you cannot legally practice in the us (with a few exceptions but not good ones)#we have a gigantic shortage of doctors and a glut of doctors who aren't being allowed to complete the training they need to practice #and yet congress is like 1 + 1 = less money for the military and bailing out banks so fuck that #anyway soapbox put away but unrelated if any of my fandom folks need medical content beta read in their fics i'm almost always game

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