Reflex hammer: $6.50
Sphygomanomometermeter: $51.95
Stethoscope: $150
Books: $500
Tuition: $25,000
7-10 years commitment, 80 hours a week: $??????
It's been quite a long road already, arriving at an allopathic medical school in the US and beginning year one. Quite expensive, too, with hundreds of dollars for the MCAT, thousands of dollars for medical school applications and interview costs, and tens to hundreds of thousands in undergraduate tuition. But all that is sunk now. As I wrap up the first week of medical school, it's not the material costs that worry me. Rather, it's the fear of commitment.
Am I ready to commit the next decade of my life to working in a hospital? Do I have the intelligence, stamina, and endurance needed to study mounds and mounds of facts about the minutiae of the human body? Do I have the patience necessary to work in a hospital while my peers travel the world "out there"? Do I have the compassion it takes to listen to patient after patient, offering them the very best I can?
I'm really having serious doubts. Don't get me wrong, being a doctor is indeed a unique and rewarding career. But now that I'm standing at the precipice, I'm only now realizing that I have cold feet!
6 comments:
all costs < the benefit of meeting only the greatest person in the world.
(ahem, me)
i'm sure it'll be cleared up soon enough. hang in there!
i have to admit, i've had doubts about others who went into medicine. but i think you'll make an excellent physician, dr. chiu...真心話
Just trust in God; though you may have doubts, I think you ended up here for a reason. =)
hang on there, Dr. Chiu... at least for 1 year of a semester.
Yo Nelly. Do you think grocery baggers also get cold feet?
You're lucky to be a doctor you could be a douchy ibanker or a waste of space consultant. haha
Medicine ain't a bad route to earn yo' bread.
you sound like your getting married.
have you even found any girls yet?
haha
jerm
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