Nothing new is going on here at school. We are in our last rotation of the year and it's looking like it might suck. We are in endocrinology and metabolism. We have had two days of class and we've seen two acromegalies, a hypertriglyceridemia, and a partridge in a pear tree. I think they just select doctors according to "Boredom Survivor." If you can survive boredom for six years than you will be crowned as a doctor by the tribal council. I mean honestly they can't liven it up for us anymore. Six years of reading books and interviewing patients. I understand that 80% of cases are solved with history and physical and that fancy lab tests are quite often misused or overused but I want to be a doctor, not Dick Tracy (hollywood detective). My Czech friends think that this education is very good because they say that you have alot of time now to read books and that I won't have time to do that when I'm a doctor. To an extent I agree with them but I also disagree with them. School everyday takes place from about 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and then we go home and read books for a few hours. I agree that it's good to have time to read all this stuff but I still stick to my hypothesis that you can have all the time in the world to read books and still suck as a doctor because what you need is to be pointed in the right direction and told what's most important to read and remember. When left up to our own devices we assume everything is important and get bogged down in the molecular biology of everything and although that might be the actual pathogenesis of something I think that it does nothing but lead us down the primrose path of being horribly unprepared to actually apply. I don't know we'll see what happens. Time will tell. Ten years from now we can do statistics of how many kills we've had in our doctor career and we can crown each other "007" (license to kill)
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