NEGATIVES OF BEING A MEDICAL STUDENT

Final MBBS professional exam was just knocking at the door. It is just like YAMRAJ forcefully taking someone to hell who wants live more. On the other hand it is one of those exams in which the more you read, the more you'll feel unprepared. The Sachins & Laras of my medical college were so depressed because of the exam that it is better not to ask about the mental status of one of the Jadejas of my college( myself). I was mentally sick & physically weak. So to avoid unnecessary distractions I decided to change my phone number & ultimately gave it to only my parents & close friends.

from my new no to my mom: ''Hi mom, I have changed my no & this is the new one. Please don't give this to anyone. I seriously want no distractions as the pressure to perform is killing me''

Mom: OK, why should I give?? You study as intensely as you can. Take care bye.

After 2 HOURS after that conversation:

Mom: Hey Gem, Alok uncle was asking for your number. actually he has some joint problems & he wants to consult a Rheumatologist of your college. So I have given your new number. 

Me: Whattttttttt...? mom, it is exam time. how can you do that?? 

Mom: please help him, service to mankind is service to god !! He needs you badly. He has been very nice to us. He loves you so much. Isn't it unfair not to give him your contact number??

                   After 30 minutes, I got a call from Alok uncle & the very next day I had to sacrifice nearly 2.5 hours for his consultation, lab investigations etc. Each minute wasted in that day was making me feel as if a vampire is sucking each ml of my blood ( of course HIV negative). & the worst part was, I had never seen Alok uncle before.Though according to my mom, he loves me very much, for me he was just a patient from Pluto. This is one of the biggest worries for a medico. you have to sacrifice your much needed time for some of the relatives from other planets. Thousands of patients come to hospital without having any of their relatives enrolled to the same medical college. But I don't understand why the super distant relatives desperately seek the useless privilege from us.They usually seek consultation from super duper specialists like a dentist extracting the premolar teeth of right side only or a doctor who treats only the arthritis of middle finger of right hand. Ironically, the Pluto relatives expect us to know more medical facts than the reputed doctors. If we don't help, we'll be tagged as arrogant/irresponsible... if we help, we will end up in losing precious times. I am not saying that we shouldn't help but to that during exams is just like asking a Spanish matador to kill his bull. So one should always try to enter a medical college out of own state or at least own city.

                              How do you feel when >99% of your friends earn 4-5 lakhs per annum from the Infosys/Wipro/TCS etc & you still unwillingly have romance with books having 4 to 5 thousand pages in the library?? No one can admit that he/she has an orgasmic feeling for the above reason. Friends working at mentally cool atmospheres, enjoying weekends at the McDonalds/KFC & posting get together pictures in Facebook really evokes a little bit of jealousy. It doesn't matter how often you say 'Doctors are second only to God', 'No profession is better than the medical profession'', you are bound to feel the heat once your non-medico friends establish themselves before you do so.  On weekend we tend to study hard & at the same time you can well imagine the other extreme of enjoyment by settled friends. So seriously it is a mental drawback for medicos. The enjoyment, the freedom, quick money from 21st year of life onwards of a non-medico always disturbs a medico's fragile mind.

                 Here comes the biggest drawback. I have seen few of my friends suffering from this one. But to be a victim of this trouble, you need to seriously in love with someone. If you are in the final year of MBBS, your approximate age must be 23+ & must of Indian girls get married at an average age of 25 years. From my research, it is evident that most of the medicos fall in love with their batch mates irrespective of their courses. To be very frank, if you are in love with your batchmate and you are in final year, you have to face the pressure of getting married early. You can well imagine the other sweet activities after marriage that can have an ill effect on studies. I have seen few of my seniors who have surrendered to this pressure. Ironically, if you haven't completed a PG, then nobody'll prefer you as a doctor. So those true lovers always get sandwiched between pressure of marriage & pressure of PG. But to my knowledge such things are rare in a non medico's life. Nobody will point a finger even if they have only one thing called B.tech. They enter college & feel like being a part of a Rajnikanth movie but medicos enter the college & feel like being a part of a Tushar Kapoor/Uday Chopra movie.

           Even with the aforementioned drawbacks, it is still a highly prestigious profession. Just blogging 3-4 drawbacks will never reduce the charm of the subject. I hope pure fans of medical science won't mind this blog. If we do well, every profession offers us the lift to the zenith.