I am not a perfect man. I never EVER claimed to be. But there are certain things that i try to live up. I am principled and even though sometimes i make bad personal decisions professionally and when it comes to other people, i tend to stick to my guns. If i say
im going to do something I will do it. If i say i will be somewhere I try my damnedest to be there ON TIME. And when it comes to school
fagetabout it.
I signed for medical school to learn. I want to take in all that I can so I can be the best doctor I can be. I know the importance of be professional and doing the right thing. More than anything that is what my up bringing has instilled in me, do the right thing, follow what i know is right and wrong, do right by people, respect your elders and those in authority, respect yourself, your family and god and represent yourself well. All of these things make this part of medical school run smoother. Cause at the end of the day, if you know ish, and stick to these rules above you should do fine.
Well, not everyone follows said moral standards. They cut corners and always try to find an easy way out. Never taking any responsibility or any ownership in their wrong doings. Someone else is always to blame and its never their fault. I dont know who [or what, for that matter] told them that someone in this world owes them something, cause NOBODY OWES you jack. People run around and think that their shit is so much more important than their fellow mans. They think that their time is SO much more precious than others. With blatant disregard they do wrong just because "they feel like it".
Today I witnessed the culmination of a lot of things that I just dont like. Not to go into that much detail, but basically people fucked up. lol ok thats a little too succinct lol, People didnt hold up their end of the bargain. People dropped the ball and failed their classmates and the clerkship director by not showing up to stuff. And its not that it was that grave an error that we all had to get what we got, its that it was the straw that broke the proverbial camels back.
People have gotten away with murder for too long. People complain that people dont do the right thing, that people are lazy and everyone has an attitude. That you cant get nothing done because people dont do their jobs. But when you have an attended, who can be a bit gruff, who is on their game and who is about business and professionalism, you get grippers. You cant please anyone. How do grown people have the friggin nerve to complain and catch attitude even, when people start to do their jobs and enforce rules that they have been willfully and consistently breaking. Its like when you get a speeding ticket, can you really be mad at the cop if your ass was going 30 over?
The answer is no, and you can try to find any type of excuse or sob story but at the end of the day these are perilous times. We live in a world of accountability and especially going into the field of medicine, you cant cut corners and not be places. Its not just time and convenience that is at stake, its peoples lives and well being that we are dealing with. That one call you skip out on could be life and death for someone. That doctor that you blow off could be the very one fighting to try to get you scrambled into a match [real talk, my first memory of said attending was her working her ass off trying to get people scrambled into residency programs].
so basically im just saying do you job people. In what ever you do, just do it with respect because though you may not care about others and may not even care about how you appear to others. You are a reflection of someone, you didnt make it here by yourself. You never know who or what may cross your path in the future so just do what you must and then worry about all the other stuff later, there is always a time and a place for stuff.
ok rant done... i wish i could print this and hand it out lol
aw well
good night
peace & love
Julian
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