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Yesterday I had a three-hour shift. It is one of my regular small shifts which are arranged when the nursing home cannot fill up the schedule. Except that it wasn't a regular shift.

I entered the nursing home, expecting an easy-going shift. Usually, all I have to do is watch my patients and help them get lunch. I like this type of shift as it leaves me time to spend much-needed individual time with patients. For these people, I also need the time, since two of them have been physically ...

I know medicine is just like the real world. I personally experience the staff shortages. I know that money is important in achieving anything. But when I read this, I was shocked. In some way, my unexperienced, optimistic self never considered it to be a possibility, not in a developed country.
Now I know I can't reasonably expect anyone to work for free. I am also aware of the fact that it probably takes a lot of educated people to produce any type of medicine, and that it costs a lot ...

So it's the middle of Otago's med school O-week. And I've noticed some stuff that I didn't really expect.

1) Everyone wants to be a surgeon.
So we went round our 'team' and were asked if we had any idea what area of medicine we thought we might be interested in. 9/12 said some form of surgery. I'm willing to bet at least 7 of those people have never been in an O/R ('cept maybe as a patient). It's odd how attractive surgery seems to pre-clinical students. Heck, not going to lie, ...

Procrastination comes very easily to me, Im extremely good at it. But I will try to make this quite short so I dont bore you with my thoughts.

Sometimes, the year 7 students walk by and I think, 'you really dont know how good you have it, if only i could rewind and re-start high school.' I'd do a lot of things differently, for sure.

But maybe if I had done things differently, I would be a different person. I may desire different things. I may decide to be a teacher, lawyer, ...

Updated 15-02-12 at 10:55 PM by spanishcloister

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I wrote this story earlier last year. I guess it stemmed from a place that hit really close to home... My grandfather had a really bad case of Alzheimer's that progressed ...