Sunday, May 14, 2006

A lamb to the slaughter?



It is Spring again and a fascinating new blog appears. The Hippocratic Oaf is in his second pre-clinical year at Oxford University. He intends to document his progress through medical school and into medicine. If he keeps it up, it will be fascinating.

He writes well.
“I also regularly read blogs and columns written by British hospital doctors. From these groups of people I notice two common trends: A burning hatred for the management of the NHS and a general tendency towards clinical depression. Medical training and hospital careers run people into the ground. It's painful, gritty and unrewarding. Avoid it at all costs. It will consume your very soul. These are the messages I get from the people who actually know what they're talking about, yet I merrily ignore them. I'm still in the aforementioned stage of childlike bliss.

I have yet to enter the awkward and angst-ridden teenage years of adjusting to a hospital routine. It's possible that I'll hate it and will drop out as soon as I get a real taste of hard work. It's possible that everyone exaggerates to liven up their prose; who'd want to read about a well-contented doctor cheerfully going about a pleasant day at work? Maybe I'll hate it but feel obliged to continue anyway out of some misguided sense of duty, working every waking hour until I'm eventually anaesthetised to all that is worthy in life.”

So young. So enthusiastic. As were we all. And yet, do I detect a trace of cynicism already? Surely not!

Which reminds me, I have not taken my medication yet today.

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