Done with another semester
Three semesters down, one more of lectures, four of clinicals left. I have forgotten more things in the last three semesters than I think ever before in my life. Its a cycle of binge and purge. Let the week long studying begin. A week without class dedicated to allowing you to study for a final over more information than two undergrad semesters. Continuing the coffee quest...
Current count: 48 oz.
More to come.
Current count: 48 oz.
More to come.
posted by runrMD08 at 4:58 PM
3 Comments:
I feel as though this is bad but I have come to a frightening observation.
In perhaps to the most valuable professions, medical and law, in which we hold our lives, health and freedom, the world rewards and relies on those people who can cram for week and test great.
Now, while no doubt these people are intelligent and very dedicated, I cannot get over the fact that I am suppose to spend proportionally more amout of money on those individuals that can learn and synthesize an entire semster into four days than on one of their classmates. On the other hand, someone such as myself, who either did not read a question correctly or did not study a particular page, are significantly less compensated for their equally important work.
And as I am writing this to you Metz and whomever, I get the eery feeling as though I am becoming a socialist and apologist, both of which I have striven to avoid.
With all of those caveats, best of luck with finals.
This observation is frightening if you take it out of context. Medicine and law are some of the most respected professions and also some of the most challenging. They do require more intelligence than the general population can muster, which is why the general population, in my opinion, holds them in higher regard. This level of intelligence is not genius level, by any stretch of the imagination. These professions are filled by people who are above average intelligence and hard workers. There are those genius anomalies, but they are rare.
Even with an above average intelligence, it is simply not possible to review everything that was said and learned in a semester in one week. If you were in undergrad, maybe... But certainly not in med school or law school. It is simply impossible.
With regard to compensation, yes, lawyers and physicians are highly compensated. Many, if not most, are compensated better than the president of our country. They work long hours to save people's lives, literally. They are not, however, the highest compensated people in the country. That honor belongs to people in business.
CEOs of major corporations, who usually do not hold a terminal degree, nor are they referred to as "Doctor," are the highest compensated people in our country and the world. They do not, usually, work to save people's lives. They do not make it their goal to make people's lives better. They work to sell items or services to people. Why is it that these people make what they make? Why do THEY make more money than people that go to school for longer and have a more "humane" profession? Riddle me this Mr. Business school.
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