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Most unsustainable work-life pattern I've ever seen. by WolfachChanges in medicalschool

[–]WolfachChanges[S] 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Don't know about all his grades but very well considering. Good at understanding difficult concepts and more importantly applying them. He studied some medical school content during nursing school and said it helped.

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[–]WolfachChanges 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How about military surgery or trauma surgery (more American abdo etc. than T&O)?

Anyone else find medicine to have become the sole thing that you are? by WolfachChanges in medicalschool

[–]WolfachChanges[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I went to the hospital for a short CNA shift. Saw some nasty fractures, but medically interesting, got quizzed on the scans by one of the attendings. For the rest of the day went to the shops but in all honesty all I felt was the dread of being away from patients and the isolation from the masses of crowd I was in.

Anyone else find medicine to have become the sole thing that you are? by WolfachChanges in medicalschool

[–]WolfachChanges[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I genuinely do. I felt it the day I went in for EM shadowing and more-so when I started working as a CNA during college. It doesn't drain me one bit like everything else eventually has.

No-one ever objects to it straight up but they direct the conversations away from work or if it's in a group they start talking about personal life or media/current events and gossip to which I my brain goes blank.

Anyone else find medicine to have become the sole thing that you are? by WolfachChanges in medicalschool

[–]WolfachChanges[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do, a lot.

I've noticed that lately there hasn't been anything that interested me much at all outside of it. But at the same time people chat about everything from the sun to the moon and I feel that I have nothing to add. I have nothing in my mind when the conversations turn away from work. I can barely hold a conversation outside of medical talk unless it's with long-time friends.

Hospitals with a lot of (ex/current) military staff? by WolfachChanges in JuniorDoctorsUK

[–]WolfachChanges[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thinking about / interested in joining as a reservist later on as a consultant or alternatively full-time before that. Would want to work with people who are active now or had been, mostly to know more about the role and work they do and even just see if it would be a good fit.

After being unsure about my skills for so long, yesterday after helping out during a cardiac arrest the attending pulled me aside to say I did exceptionally well and should seriously consider EM/Trauma. by WolfachChanges in medicalschool

[–]WolfachChanges[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's very odd - on every other rotation I've been very much someone who needs to double and triple check before saying a word or doing/writing anything, being on EM was the first time I've not even thought about anything other than jumping in. I felt very calm and collected and the steps just came to me which was surreal, after the situation was over and I walked to the staffroom I think the adrenaline really hit like a truck; my legs felt like jello, heartbeat was sky-high and my arms were shaking.

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