The Truth of a Medical Student ^^

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• You take forever explaining to people how long you'll be in school for and realize that you'll get a medical doctor title the same time your friend gets a PhD doctor title.

• You contemplate anything between dropping out and suicide after you finish each exam, even before knowing the results

• You get depressed and emotional just thinking about how bad a doctor you'll become in a few years

• You answer every question with. "Hmm (pretending to think for a second), I don't know." And you know the correct answer is, "It depends, sir."

• You diagnose every single abnormality on yourself / family / friends as a life-threatening condition. You think the tiny hematoma on your finger is a risk for Pulmonary Embolism - this is SO TRUE! HAHA!

• You watch House and ER and think you can score in exams and get through medical school. Wrong, only Dr. Wikipedia helps - when we want to get quick answers ^^

• You instantly feel that you want to bang your head against the wall whenever someone says "You're a medical student? You must be very smart then!", because it's an unbearable accusation - yeah 0.0

• Your friend / cousin zooms in front of you with his brand new car and treats you to lunch with his paycheck and on top of that, talks about property and houses to buy. And you're still struggling to buy a second hand reference books

• You have exams in a few days and when you try doing practical questions, you don't know what to do with your pen besides underlining the key words in the question - very depressing 0.0

• You have a peak moment in life when a senior says "good" or "well done"; it's so relieving to know you're not a complete drain on society - yeap! like when Pak Lang interrogated me with medical questions and I could answer them!! :D

• Yo're completely socially retarded when you hang-out with non-medics as you don't know what to talk about besides your miserable life as a medical student

• A patient / doctor asks you if you've done the procedure before (eg cannulation, suturing) and you say " Yes", without revealing the fact that the previous patients were plastic models

• You don't understand why summer vacation is only one month, although summer itself is three months

• You wash your hands after meals and the toilet using the six-step technique

• You can't wait for long weekends, so that you can catch up on your readings - Yeap, weekends are very precious ^^

• You count the days till your next-more-than-two-days-weekend-break, which is at least 4 months away

• Your eyesight has worsened by 10 pts or more in the last year

• It doesn't matter how much you study, there is always so much more material to learn - MEDICINE IS A LIFE LEARNING PROCESS!

• You wonder when you'll have time to get married and start a family - yes :) I always do :) will it be after graduation? or after housemanship? hehe

• Right before exams, you have a hard time remembering why you want to be a doctor

• You don't have "backpain"; you have somatic dysfunction on .....

• Getting a pass is actually pretty darn good - A GREAT RELIEF!

• You often mumble to yourself " Am I supposed to know that??" as soon as you see or hear about some disease / symptom / sign that you completely have no clue about. Then you blame it on the medical school for not teaching you that

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p/s : got these from an article, edited with pictures :D