THE DARK SIDE OF MBBS/MED SCHOOL

 THE DARK SIDE OF MBBS / MED SCHOOL

You are an outstanding brilliant kid in your school days , 12^th pu college and you decide to go for medical school.

   You see doctors earning loads of money, you see doctors earning respect fame, you see doctors saving lives, you are not good at maths, you want to bring up the society, help people, and finally  you decide to choose medicine as your career.

But what you dont see are the hardships of the struggling doctors, abuses from seniors, patients ward nurses, patients and people.

What you dont see are the silent cries of the upcoming doctors, broken noses, bruises , broken arms because of the assault on doctors.

What you dont see are the poor doctors struggling for their pocket money, writing lots of exams along their path to become a doctor, sleepless nights and finally a continous stressful life , continous hairfall, weight loss or weight gain, overall there is actually no life outside his workplace.

You would be very happy after joining mbbs but infact you'll regret everyday after joining it especially when exams are nearing .

It takes around 10 to 15 ýears of your youth to become a successful doctor and start earning,

Thus is the era of superspeciality and remember if you want to join mbbs be ready to sacrifice your 10 to 15 years for it.

Nobody will ever tell you these things before joining mbbs.

1.  Medicine will follow you everywhere. Even outside of work, people somehow think it’s fair game to ask you questions about their health or whatever they have heard on the news. You are morally obligated to respond in medical emergencies even when you are in flight on your vacation.

2.  Work-life balance is a tremendous challenge. You carry your work with you long after your shift. You’ll think about that one patient and wonder if you have done everything right for them. After a long day of work, you’ll have no energy to interact with your spouse or children.

3.  You are held to a different standard. You are expected to be kinder, more compassionate, and more patient.

4.  Your body is tested to the limits. You learn to go 8 or more hours without bathroom breaks, drinking water, or having food. You find out you can still function after 24 hours of no sleep. This is especially true in residency and fellowship training. It’s still true for me as I’m working in the ICU.

5.  You spend more time documenting than actual bedside care. This may be true only in the US. The regulatory demands pull doctors away from patients because “if it’s not documented, it doesn’t happen.””

6. Mistakes happen. No matter how meticulous you think you are, mistakes will happen and you will feel awful when they do.

The competition to join mbbs itself is high and the stress levels to crack pg seat and superspeciality test , the preparation for these exams , the unemployed state during this preparation, keeping yourself calm during these days is of utmost importance.

Burnout is generally high among doctors globally, although the rates vary by medical specialty, practice setting, gender, and career stage.

During mbbs: Dont be happy yet after joining mbbs , because the actual struggle is about to start , thus is the beginning of a stressful, struggling ,endless journey.

Missing out on parties, missing out on social occasions are all common.

Besides that On the very first day of the very first year, we are made to sit in front of lifeless bodies- the cadavers..

Over the span of 4 and half of years of your mbbs you will face many stressful exams , emotional exhaustion, burn out and finally you graduate to become an intern (house surgeon) ,that is the phase when you finally feel like a doctor in initial phase to gradually realise that you dont have a value or atleast a respect as a doctor and you would feel very low and unworthy and thats when the need for post grauation comes and you fall for the cat race,competing with lakhs of other mbbs graduates to grab a post graduation seat.

During Post graduation: Busiest phase of your life if at all you have chosen a clinical branch.

You need to get up at 6 or 7am in the morning, go check your ward patients attend rounds, opd later then follow up , and attend emergencies. Emergency ots and come back to your rooms the next day night or not come at all till 2 days or 3 days, missing out lunch dinner, surviving on choclates and juices.

After post graduation: After pg , you would want to start your own practice but you are not confident to start it, you would see your colleagues getting into superspeciality, So you start thinking of alternatives like superspeciality and again fall for the cat race for the exam.

Overall its a complete burn out of a human being.

chronic exposure to human suffering and long working hours have contributed to greater job stress and early burnout among the doctors.

 

1.For every minute of fun in social media, is 2 hours of imposter syndrome and feeling like you cant do it.

2. Medical hierarchy is real. You will see professors venting out their frustration on ugs and pgs. 

3.we have to complete most of the syllabus on our own. There are very few teachers who actually teach well in class, remaining of them just read the slides for the sake of teaching.

4. Expectations do not meet reality at all.

5.Med school is not difficult, it is just vast , it aint a rocket science to understand any concept here.

6.Very long course.

7. Academic pressure.

8. Violence against doctors.

9.A journey in Mbbs is akin to the harry potter series. Every year it gets darker.

10. Too much stress to handle.

 

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This ,i feel is the dark side of mbbs.