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Old 11-10-2007, 02:32 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I'd rather you didn't question my motivation and/or attitude and simply answered the question at hand.
I think if you review my post, you will find I was only questioning your motivation if you felt med school was something to endure. I would not wish to encourage anyone who felt like this to attend med school.

If you use similar statements in the future, I would feel it legitimate to comment again. It's a forum. People comment.
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Old 11-10-2007, 02:39 AM   #12 (permalink)
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There's no need to review your post. I've made myself quite clear and find no reason to prolong an already needless discussion with a pedantic user such as yourself.

@ Victoria - thanks for that piece of info.
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Old 11-10-2007, 10:49 PM   #13 (permalink)
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If I reply, I flame! What a dilema...

OK. I'll just make general comments, instead.

Enthusiasm matters. Lack of it speaks volumes. Negativity has a - well a negative effect

If you profess to having wanted to study medicine for sometime, it helps to be in touch with the medical news. It's handed to you on a plate on this forum...

Drs are cynical. And fairly intolerant of indifference. If you are picking between law and medicine, the disenfranchised will tell you to pick law, and the motivated medics will tell you to pick law. So pick law.
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Old 12-10-2007, 12:02 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Drs are cynical. And fairly intolerant of indifference.
does that mean Doctors are tolerant of difference?
sorry; English is the second language of mine and you people for some reason overcomplicate your discussions using BIG words! I have trouble comprehending your sentences. (when replying to such threads I start using big words unintentionally lol)
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Old 12-10-2007, 12:49 AM   #15 (permalink)
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If someone is indifferent in regards to an issue, they haven't really got a notable opinion on the matter. They aren't really bothered about it, if you will. In this case, he's implying (in vain - and wrongly) that my eagerness to study medicine is insufficient. 'General comments' my b-hind...

A definition of the word 'indifferent' will be available on the internet.
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Old 12-10-2007, 01:22 AM   #16 (permalink)
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If someone is indifferent in regards to an issue, they haven't really got a notable opinion on the matter. They aren't really bothered about it, if you will. In this case, he's implying (in vain - and wrongly) that my eagerness to study medicine is insufficient. 'General comments' my b-hind...

A definition of the word 'indifferent' will be available on the internet.
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Old 12-10-2007, 02:05 AM   #17 (permalink)
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In this case, he's implying (in vain - and wrongly) that my eagerness to study medicine is insufficient. 'General comments' my b-hind...
i really dont think good old Yazoo is trying to 'diss' you here. he is just making a pragmatic point. if anyone is not truly enthusiastic about the prospect of spending 5 years at medical school, or the subsequent career path, then they should think long and hard before accepting a place.

nothing pisses of doctors more than colleagues who are lazy and couldn't care less.

nobody is accusing you of being such a person. it is just that you original comments on "enduring" life at medical school make it sound as if you are a bit unsure about things. If you are a bit unsure about the prospect of getting through medical school, it is only going to get worse after.

That is all, no personal digs going on, just pragmatism from the older members of the forum.

remember, only you know what you really think about these things. if you know deep down that you want to do medicine, then you dont need to worry about what other people say. but there is no harm in being aware of their opinions.
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Cheers Marc. A well-timed and accurate interjection.
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Old 13-10-2007, 09:19 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Haha - really, haha.

"nothing pisses of doctors more than colleagues who are lazy and couldn't care less.
nobody is accusing you of being such a person"

That statement is pure rubbish. If yazoo didn't accuse me of that then I must not be able to read. And for the record, 'enduring' was used to emphasise the current situation of not being guaranteed a job afterwards - and not to the profession or medical school - as has been explained, in length, already.

It's clear you have some kind of clique going on here. I bid you good day.
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Old 13-10-2007, 09:42 PM   #20 (permalink)
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whooosh!! It amuses me more and more how people can allow themselves to get sooo uptight about things of very little signifance, mentioned by people they have never seen face to face! It is this continuing "stomping off in a huff" in response to what seem to be (to me at any rate) mature and helpful questioning - on many issues that makes me wonder (and I do mean this) at some of these indiv's ability to not only perform well in the medical world, but in the adult world at all! It sems to me that quite often what start off as random comments intended to encourage us to think, to question ourselves and our friends that are wildly misinterpreted by people who read what they wish to! It bizarrely makes me glad to be 23 and no longer 18, and also makes me hope beyond hope that I wasn't so ridiculously childish in the past!
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