(DISCLAIMER: This does not stand for any group or organization's opinions. This is a mere product of my personal musings, as a medical student livin' THE LIFE. Hahaha)
So, I've had so many "grownup" doctors (one of them being my own mother) telling me how "fortunate" we are, and some even saying how rather "unfair" it is that we have iPads/laptops/Internet during medical school.
You know what? Sometimes I seriously think about how wonderful it must have been at a time when these actually did not exist. Here are the random reasons I can presently harvest off the top my head:
- When I open a book (ebook in this case) or open my notes (PDF is the way to go), no alerts on Facebook (mostly school-related, ironically), etc are waving at me.
- I'd be behind on class updates for reasons that don't include failing to open Facebook or charge my phone.
- Nothing beats the feeling of reading from the actual pages of a concrete book. (We all know this.)
- We'd actually, "work harder," because information in this present age is already too easy to obtain and it's making us rather lazy.
The list can go on...
Yes, I could choose not to have any of these. But if that happens, I'd be we way too behind and lost in this fast-paced generation. I would need to catch up with uploaded notes, updated ebooks and changes in class schedules that can move at the speed of sound (or internet speed, lol).
In order to compete (or survive, to say the least), one must follow suit. I guess this has become the status quo, per se.
So, don't resent us, my seniors in this great vocation. Your time in medical school was definitely great, and there is no need to compare it with ours. You had your problems, we have ours. You had your advantages, we have ours too.
We all have a common goal anyway, and that's the one thing that actually matters. :)
