When Scrubs started, I was a third year medical student. Now judging from many FFs I've read where Edward is a doctor/med student/resident, there are very few people who understand that being a third year medical student means that you're lower than dirt, especially when you're training at one of the most academic cities in the country. I was told this repeatedly by many of my attendings when I was a third year medical student.
While the first two years of medical school is more like college (to the nth degree), the third and fourth years are clinical rotations. I never would have made it through my first two years without my super supportive husband and my med school friends who I met up with all over the city and closed down several undergrad and law school libraries with. And, yes, even spent many all-nighters with, cramming seemingly random facts into our brains while trying to stay awake in musty old classrooms at M and V. (Thank you C, C, S, E and S.)
What helped me get through my third year? Why, Scrubs, of course. Even though Turk and JD started as interns on the show, they mirrored so much of what my friends and I were going through: the crazy hours, the even crazier attendings, the struggle between feeling too much or too little for your patients, and the differences between internists (internal medicine residents) and surgeons.
Plus, JD and Turk are the original Bromance:
Interactivity part: What projects on Kickstarter have you supported? What tv shows/movies/books do you feel truly shed a light on your job, schooling, or something else in your life? Who's your fave Bromance OTP? Or, what's your fave Scrubs episode or moment?
PS I'm ten years out from med school and I've never treated any of my med students or residents with anything less than the respect they deserve.
PPS Sorry the CF is so long. I've been thinking about med school a lot since I just missed my reunion last weekend.
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