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Maybe unduly harsh but I think medical school exemplifies the "busyness directive" more than anything. Sure people go to medical school for altruistic reasons b
by hardwaregeek 4y ago
Maybe unduly harsh but I think medical school exemplifies the "busyness directive" more than anything. Sure people go to medical school for altruistic reasons but usually there's more to it than that. Medical school is work. It's hard work. You're spending almost all of your time studying or working. But it suppresses the need to think about your life and what path you want to take for quite a few years. You go from medical school to internship to residency. You don't have to decide anything beyond specialty and even that's partially determined by grades.
It also gives you more clout and a stable, high paying profession at the end.
I don't think it's a surprise that many of the people I know from my prestigious high school and semi-prestigious college are going to medical school.
- refactor_master 4y agoI know someone like that, who just graduated from medical school. It seemed to be all about the hours you sink into it. Whether it’s clever work or not doesn’t matter. It’s hard and hard equals productive. Many other fields are also hard to succeed in, but it seems like just putting in the hours is the worst possible way to go about it at a certain point, because thinking about what you’re trying to accomplish is a much more useful exercise.