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Re: Medical School vs Residency
by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Thursday December 30, @02:12PM

Medical school: Heaven and hell, good and bad, life and death, grand and ugly. If you go, you will be abused, you will be your best, you will be your worst, you will meet some of the finest people you will ever meet as well as the creepiest and lowest. You will be tired. You will find help in un-expected places. You will mature more in those years and see more and know more about life in one year than most do in a lifetime. That's how it was for me. I can't speak for others and you may find it dramatically different.

I am a psychiatrist. The first 3 years of medical school are long and hard, the last one is easy by comparison. The first 2 years of a psychiatry residency were not nearly as difficult as medical school but they are just as difficult as any other residency. After that it gets easier and after that it can become just like a regular job.

Some people go into medicine and psychiatry because of their own issues. Good psychiatrists get themselves treated, bad ones get their treatment through their patients. The same goes for all physicians. You will see florid psychopathology among all types of physicians, not just psychiatrists, and people in general.

If you have the calling, feel the fear and do it anyway. Every job sucks in some way no matter what you do. You have to fill the years you have regardless and your time of bondage does not last forever. Good luck, may you find peace. -- IV

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