Dr. Charles Highway

Bored

Today was my second day back at my medical school. I have to admit I had forgotten how BORING med school could be. In between haematology and anatomy lectures, I found enough time to take several naps and catch up on the latest gossip from our med school weekend party (where I caused a surprise scandal). Aaaah, back to normalness.

I couldn’t help but feel how it seemed like a rock had been lifted of our shoulders. The rock was simply the first year of medical school. Every year you manage to complete a year in medical school, it seems that the dream of being a doctor keeps getting closer and closer – as it should be! I bumped into a few freshmen who were still clueless about classes and electives and they were all asking questions which just illustrated how scared they still were with their first week in as medical  students…noobs

I recently finished reading a book called Towelhead  by Alicia Erian and Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures  by Dr. Vincent Lam. Both are quality reads. The former book (the title of which you shouldn’t be caught saying out loud) was rather funny in the beginning and then entered some serious territory: teenage sex, rape, racism, etc. Though it took me two weeks to finish it  (yes, I am the world’s slowest reader), I felt proud of myself and scared at the same time for teenage girls everywhere. Shit Scared. Read it and find out why. The novel by Dr Vincent Lam, also had a rather innocent start consisting of Canadian Students trying for, and getting into, medical school. It takes a romantic twist in the beginning but that is soon removed to bring in other issues such as patient-doctor relationships, stress, drinking on the job, asking the questions of whether medicine is right for me, etc. Good read, however, it did make me think that maybe when I finish medical school I would be one of those people who is unhappy with his life but is a great doctor…frightening really.

The day has pretty much got me relaxing and listening to my roommate talk about trying to get an australian girlfriend. Good times.

PS If you get a chance, watch the indie documentary called Waltz with Bashir. An excellent doco about the lebanese civil war, told with the use of animation. Brilliant and sad.

Take care