Dr Crippen has recieved an interesting letter from a rather disenheartened medical student, you can read it (and his excellent blog) here.
Many of the commentators on the blog have made, what I feel, is the rather uninformed and derogatory comment that this is just a student thing, just a temporary moment of doubt or, perhaps worst, that he deserves nothing less.
This is clearly more than an isolated person having a momentary crisis of confidence.Medical students are far from fools and, unlike many other students, we have a predetermined path, so we do tend to be a bit more clued up on what's going on. We look at things like MMC, like EWTD, the state of the NHS in general and the experiences of our friends who have progressed and I think it's fair to say that most of us have serious doubt.Why would you want to commit five or six (or more) years of your life and upwards of £50,000 to an career where the only certainty is that you will be pissed on by practically everyone from the government downwards?
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Yes, but you see, not all of us jump into a hospital and check out every aspect of life as a doctor before we make the decision to go to school. There are still those of us out there who are going to be inspired to do medicine by crappy unrealistic TV shows and by intentions of doing good and saving the world.
Unfortunately all we're gonna get in return now is a big screwing over.
Ah, medical school.
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