Have you ever wondered why Ibn Sina, a great scholar in the 10th century, during his age of 17 described medicine as "not difficult"? Absurd huh? we're claiming that this long 'journey to be a doctor' thing is hell difficult, and only the best among those in the past 2ry school results are able to carry such a subject. And yet its still remains one of most challenging branches of knowledge for such minds. Getting stuck in medical school for 6 years really makes us sick (plus 'you know what' about Egypt). So, how did Ibn Sina make it so simple?
There's no doubt that he is a complete genius. Mastering grand bits of knowledge as Muslim Jurisprudence, Philosophy Metaphysics, Astronomy, Medicine all at the same time. In fact, he's already a physician at the age of 18. Simple maths, he gained all that big chunk of knowledge in 1 single year~!. Can you believe that~ Not to mention, he wrote his first book at the age of 21. That is where me and my colleagues are right now. Kinda feel dumb huh~ compared to him.
Leaving all that, here's what I think about Medicine. To me, the real challenge of the world that I'm involved in right now and others, lies when we become a real doctor, in hospitals and treating patients. List all you can the hardships in your future carrier in being a doctor. Lets take the 2 years of housemanship for example.
1. as a freshman, you'll obviously be the chicken in the hospital. Moving here and then as if you're the only staff at work.
2. the sense of ego being graduated as a doctor drives you to feel that your powerful and feeling as the chief in charge, yet if you try to boast around, the nurse, especially the old and grumpy ones, will turn your back at you, and you will find that you're alone.
3. you show your anger to the nurses or other staff and to the patients, you'll be disrespected, and people will vow to leave you at the edge of the world. (so control your temper mate)
4. you'll be working around the clock day and night, the hospital will be your home sweet home by then.
5. being a Fish, you will have the highest chance of making mistakes, then being scold by senior doctors and nurses, getting smacked by patients and any heart-biting responses.
6. if your married, think about your wives and husbands, your kids
7. having a thought of quitting, maybe~(na3uzubillah).
and many more to be thought of~
You see how much you will face just in the first 2 years of carrier as a doctor. Those are just some that has been discussed with my friends in the last SC. So what about now, as a student. Why is there a feeling that learning all this medical stuff is so difficult whilst Ibn Sina said the opposite. To me, the main key to excel as a medical student is simply just hard work or in Malay 'rajin'. Squeeze your brain to list the techniques and methods of how to make a good study, but if you have the 'lazy disease', the lists just doesn't work and fades off.
Some people say that you need to make half of the hours in your day to be devoted to study and study and then more study. Congrats to those who have the sprit to do so, I really admire such people, but then at the end of the day, I think all you get is what you spent together with book. I'm not saying its bad, but where will be the diversity of knowledge and personality that you have to develop during your lifetime as a student to face whatever you'll facing in the future. Me, for instant, I just cannot stand to face a book for long periods, max. 1.5 hours or less. Then I'll go off doing something else. Better said than done huh? where goes my hard work thing? Well, the definition of hard work are sometimes specific and unique for each person. Me, I consider 1.5 hrs per session of study as 'rajin', bwahhaha~ but be smart
Another thing that I want to express about medicine. If you notice, medicine is a subject of language. Its like you learn languistic but in a medical pattern. Simply if you understand a sentence stating an issue as Type 1 diabetis, you'll surely understand about it. What makes medicine so difficult for us is that you got to remember a load of names as drugs, classifications of things, parasites, pathogens, diseases and more. How to remember those ocean and sick terms... = rajin la. No other option. That is why you don't need to be a genius to learn medicine. Even normal people out there can know medicine simply by Googling or ask Prof Wikipeida. So what makes us better than them? Were doctors to be, just put some effort in studying and memorizing stuffs, improve your reading and language skills, manage your time well and relationship with people, then all will go fine and by the will of Allah, InsyaAllah you'll get good marks in the exam. If you can't even face a simple challenge as a Medical Student, how do you hope to face them as a Doctor??
Good luck studying for exam.
[it's always about the exam-sigh~]
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