25% a doctor
18 months ago
I am one quarter of the way to having my MD, and it is a little bit frightening. Although I certainly learned a lot over the past months, I feel that this first year mostly opened my eyes to how much information is in medicine. My stack of notes is over 2 feet high, and that represents just the tip of the iceberg for most of the subjects we studied this year. Two weeks ago I was sitting at my desk after finishing our final exams, feeling inadequate, wondering if I will ever know the information as well as the doctors we look up to, and I just couldn’t believe that I will be trusted with people’s lives in a few short years.
