<p>Is that guy's perspective on med school really accurate? Do any of you CC med students really hate med school that much? Just wondering if it's really that bad.</p>
<p>Never heard of that blog before you referenced it here. I love med school, and as far as I can tell, my classmates feel largely the same way.</p>
<p>From his about section:</p>
<p>“This blog is dedicated to a great lifestyle and high-paying specialties”</p>
<p>No wonder he didn’t like med school. To quote MIB, the highest paying specialties are for “the best of the best of the best, sir! With honors!” and quite frankly, if a great lifestyle and high salary is the reason you’re going into medicine, you are going to be miserable.</p>
<p>Agree with Brown, guy clearly was not motivated to go into medicine for the right reasons. money, power, prestige, etc are not sufficient motivators for the level of effort that one puts forth to obtain them in medicine.</p>
<p>Overall, medical school was a positive experience for me and most of my classmates. However, you have to realize that over four years of medical school there are going to be some really terrible days and you have to be able to put them behind you. There will also be times when you will think that it is not possible to feel more tired and overwhelmed but you will soon find it is possible when you graduate and become an intern.</p>
<p>It is hard to say if D’s classmates are enjoying it or feel miserable. They definitely feel very privileged, since it is so hard to get into Med. School…but they are at the very beginning of process.<br>
People who go strictly for money, should also feel this way…or they do not pay any attention to unemployment rate. Med. students are talking about being this specialty or that, they are not talking about not having a job after graduation. So, please, get down to the ground from whatever place you are…I have never heard of unemployed MD, I know very very many of them, and we live in one of the most economically depressed region of the country. All engineers and computer science people among my friends have been unemployed many times (including myself), the first topic of discussion among other professionals is “how is the job?”, MD’s never mention it. So, for those who went to medicine for money, here is your real reason, it will always exist, it is job security, that everybody else is lacking big time…I am on my job #9, yes, have been unemployed that many times, it is not a good place to be…very depressing…</p>
<p>The medschoolhell guy is a rabble rouser and seems to be overjoyed by the attention he receives for his views.</p>
<p>Does he have a point? Yes, and I think it’s important that pre-meds consider their “true” motivation. However, I also think he’s myopic and completely clueless to what life is really like for most people in this country. I also think that in addition to his motivations, he focuses far too much on this utopian vision of what being a concierge cosmetic dermatologist (or whatever his ideal situation is) is actually like and how feasible it truly is. Yes there are reports of of all types of physicians getting 7 figure salaries for 15 hours of work a week (check and see how many people on SDN want to be derm pathologists after the story came out about the guy making millions doing that), but these are exceedingly rare cases. Putting those out as your career touchstones is pie in the sky and pollyannaish, equivalent to thinking you’re going to win the powerball jackpot on 2 separate occasions.</p>
<p>Is med school an utter joy? Absolutely not - there are plenty of downsides. Of course it’s necessary. Is it worth it? In my opinion absolutely YES. But I can say that now being on the other side and getting ready to move on to fellowship in the exact field that I’m insanely passionate about. Did I necessary feel that way while a med student? No, I was hopeful it would be worth it in the end and thankful that I was suffering through it when I knew there were 20,000 others who would have killed to trade places with me (I think it helped that I had a number of friends that had to reapply, so I could see how difficult that process was). But there were absolutely some really DARK moments - February of 2nd year was probably the lowest continual low I’ve ever felt - it’s cold, dark, weeks away from spring break, yet close enough to the big change that is moving to clinical medicine you can see it…until you remember that you have the most important test of your career to climb over before that point…definitely not my happy place.</p>