there seems to be this group of people who go round to blogs and leave sarcastic comments about doctors or medical students. mr dm has kena-ed one recently, and i've visited other blogs several months ago which got similar comments. typically, this sad folks who've nothing better to do are fond of labeling med students as a naive and bimbotic lot and criticize doctors for not "following the textbooks". such statements either make you want to laugh or cry, don't they?

i shall state here for a fact that there will always be the naive and bimbotic in any profession, though i hope that med has fewer of such people. studying medicine doesn't "make" you smarter or more mature automatically, however it makes you more aware of human suffering and disease. the drawback of course would be that because, as meer mortals, we are unable to cope with such emotional suffering and hence become desensitized, as all relatives, friends and the local papers like to remind you.

and how about not following the textbook? who, i ask, follows any textbook down to the letter?! you've these people who read up "medical" books and end up trying to prove to their physicians that five years of medical school can be summarized in a few thick (ie less than a thousand pages) books. scary but true. heh.

all that's above are just some of my personal opinions, which sometimes change over time. but i was truly amazed by some of the stuff brought up on these commenting pages. maybe, -i- am the naive one.

anyhoo, i haven't been able to collect my shoes because the studio's closed in the afternoon. i've called and called and went down personally yesterday but no one was there. grr. my shoes!!