tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846297745517755566.post6628822579506298576..comments2023-05-28T23:06:10.372+10:00Comments on The Girl with the Blue Stethoscope: Welcome back to high schoolThe Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02368935358031860432noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846297745517755566.post-14271414524639879852007-06-05T20:14:00.000+10:002007-06-05T20:14:00.000+10:00High school indeed. Far too many immature future d...High school indeed. Far too many immature future doctors in my class for my taste. Congrats on the 100th post as well.MedStudentGod (MSG)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02670042423377931696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846297745517755566.post-7485300956589632612007-06-06T20:49:00.000+10:002007-06-06T20:49:00.000+10:00Overheard during my first year of medicine:"I...Overheard during my first year of medicine:<br><br>"I just bought a pair of ugg boots. They were a hundred and twenty dollars. But that's only sixty dollars a shoe, so I think that's all right." I was disgusted.<br><br>Have you found that these are typically the students with a poor work ethic, too? I certainly have.<br><br>I've sometimes become so angry with my peers' patronisation of / disdain for patients that I've said something (generally politely). It seems in the patients' best interests, if not in mine. <br><br>On the other hand, in the sake of fairness, there have also been 2 of the designer dress types who have surprised me greatly with their compassion and insight.Milk and Two Sugarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960085813041665939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846297745517755566.post-25222537005828796042007-06-08T07:20:00.000+10:002007-06-08T07:20:00.000+10:00I guess you can't pick a person by what they w...I guess you can't pick a person by what they wear.<br><br>But I do wonder exactly why some people are in the course!!!The Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02368935358031860432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846297745517755566.post-73397670512744129522007-06-16T07:21:00.000+10:002007-06-16T07:21:00.000+10:00Not quite in medical school yet, but I've figu...Not quite in medical school yet, but I've figured it out that I'll never quite avoid such ostentatious dressers who also happen to be rather pretentious in their demeanor. I've accepted it as a fact of...school? It wouldn't be totally accurate to say that one only encounters designer-dress types in school; I see them around my city as well. Not everyone I've met in this classification is totally pretentious or incapable of compassion for less fortunate people, though. Some just happen to like fine clothing, I guess. "Fine" clothing...someonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846297745517755566.post-54878281729907181802007-06-20T11:56:00.000+10:002007-06-20T11:56:00.000+10:00Woman, you just described about half of the women ...Woman, you just described about half of the women in my PhD program. It's not speech path, I don't know where this comes from. We used to be a normal, hard working bunch of (dare I say) slobs. But there's a new crop of students who dress UP, all the time. I too have found myself wondering where they get the money for the outfits. We're PhD students for god's sake! We're all broke, right?<br><br>More than mere clothing alone, what bothers me are the following:<br>The tendency to refer to each other (in collective unit) as "girls". <br>The fact that every time I come upon two or more of them talking, I swear to ever loving god, they are talking about dieting and being too fat for this or that (article of clothing).<br><br>(runs screaming from the room...)PFGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474797771153272886noreply@blogger.com