To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Sir William Osler
Sir William Osler was a very famous Canadian physician for which many eponyms bare his name. He would be appalled by our school. About eight months from graduation and I think we can count all the patients we have seen as less than 200 in our five years here.
Even if things were to become wonderful at school it would be too late, we're done. I'm sickened at how our school can't organize anything but payment of tuition. During our internal medicine clerkship we were told to stay home and read and not bother coming in. I popped my head in one day to get my credit and low and behold I saw the Czech students in small groups of 3 or 4 with doctors by bedsides talking about things.
Our group of English students at Charles University does not represent diversity, enrichment, or breadth for the University it merely represents income. I could talk til I was blue in the face about how let down I am with my education but it wouldn't make a difference. At present I'm concentrating on just getting the hell out of here and hopefully into a job come July.
I hope before I leave Prague I will get to take a trip somewhere because in my 5 years in Europe I haven't been anywhere but Slovakia and Germany, but unfortunately I'm all too prudent an individual. I could have done lots of travelling but then I'd be even broker than I am now. At least at present I can afford rice and beans and the occasional muffin but if I had gone to rome, venice, paris, and other locales I'd be sleeping in a dumpster eating apple cores.
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Hey what is your opinion on the Polish and Hungarian schools? Some of them are more expensive but I also heard that they are better in quality. Do you happen to know anything about these schools?
Here's what I know: foreign med school is foreign med school. Students from hungary transferred here and transferred back to hungary because they said it' s exactly the same but at least they have friends back in hungary. Polish and Hungarian girls are hotter and nicer than Czech girls and don't constantly gnaw your ear off about how you're a rich foreigner and your life is infinitely better than theirs. Don't know if that helps.
gee, thanks ;]
judging from my one-year-only experience from Prague, there is a substantial difference.Prague is so much better than Warsaw, more alive and friendly (except the closest neighbourhood of Hostivar).
Hospitals, doctors and ideas seem to be more less the same, along with constant lack of money, queues and general depression.
Still, in Poland we have much better food :D
Hey Dan Whats up?....
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