UNDER THE AXE???

Entering into the final year of medicine, I realized one thing; life is not as easy going as I thought it would be.
The first thing about being in final year is.. well, it’s the FINAL YEAR!! It means it’s probably the last chance to set ourselves straight because after that it’s a trip in the real world.
So why is being in the “final year” such a big deal???
I don’t know if those who have already passed out share the same thoughts and if those who are yet to go through it would feel the same way as I feel right now. The first thing is that it is assumed that we are expected to know everything, if not the first question which pops out, “How did you manage to pass??” now, how exactly do we answer this type of a question, we cannot express how we actually managed to clear all the years!!( but that again is a different story). Coming back, again we need to be sure of the treatment of God knows how many diseases and the pressure of facing the grilling from multiple departments, it really gets on to you. But that is how it’s meant to be…
In less than a year, we will be coming face to face with that for which we have worked hard and trained all this while, the emergency situations we have to handle, and again we are on our own and that is why we need to know practically everything that is required of us and that again is why “the” final year is the year “under the axe”.
The profession such as medicine is a demanding one, saving lives is what we really care about so if we really don’t push ourselves now then we will be just plain hippocrites when we stand up and take the “Hippocratic Oath” !! so while we are onto some cribbing and whining about how much there is to study, let’s give some food for thought and think about who we need to be!


Article also published in www.drsynapse.co.in Volume 2 Issue 4