Tag: premedical student stories

Medical training consists of years of daily pushing and pulling. As a medical student, or during residency, you are constantly pulling in senior residents for consultations to provide desperately needed guidance ensuring that you don’t hurt anyone; or else you’re pushing away those same senior residents when you finally feel, It’s okay, I got this.

If you ask for help too early, you’ll meet with stern and frustrated rebukes: “I’m busy! Why are you calling me? You should be able to manage this by now!”

But if you call too late, it’s: “Why didn’t you call me? What the hell were you thinking? You coulda killed him!”