For those of you that didn't know, I'm part of an "ethnic minority". On Friday last week, for the millionth time on my course, I found myself sitting in a group of about 8 medics, only one of whom was male, and only one of whom was white. They were both me. For some unknown reason, white guys aren't doing medicine as much as they used to.
I can understand the guy bit. Girls work harder, girls are more conscientious, girls are more meticulous, girls chat more rubbish, and so on, and so they've ended up filling 60% of the slots at the very least, just like every other degree course barring Auto Mechanics and Synchronised Farting. No problems there, and between you and me they'll probably be better doctors anyway for the most part.
And I have no problem with the large numbers of non-white students doing medicine here either- in principle. I know a lot of the Muslim guys on the course, and a few other guys from India and other parts of the world. In most cases, they're as committed and intelligent as the average medic, and fit in really well with the whole state of things here. It's quite possibly the tough work ethic of their different culture that got them here over the countless applications of lazy white boys like myself, and they deserve their place here.
But just a few students, their circumstances piss me off a little. And before you break out the megaphones and start crying racist, I'm talking about as many white students as non-white here.
There are more than a few people who speak broken English, know next to nothing about the culture of the typical patient, and always seem to be giving moronic answers to the most basic questions during rounds. It reeks of suspicion, and whether the reason for their appearance on the list of successful applicants was aided by love or money, I don't like it much. There were thousands of people who craved a place here, and they got denied.
I know the Medical School has to make money somehow, sometimes by taking paying students from abroad, and I know that the system of application here involves no formal interview, leaving a small chance of a few unsuitable candidates slipping through the net, but it can't be too hard to ensure that the 200 people who train here are actually good enough to do so.
Anyway, it won't matter now that Labour have started leaving piles of junior doctors unemployed.
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Who are these medical students you speak of who piss you off?
If you feel so strongly then maybe you should go and say it to their faces as well as posting it up on here.
Touch I raw nerve did I? I'm not going to tell you who they are, Mr. Anonymous, in the interests of confidentiality and for the sake of the lack of proof that I have (or possibly that there is , period). I didn't mean to sound judgemental, more worried. I just hope they're all having collective bad days and aren't actually going to be this half arsed when they qualify. But don't ask me, I didn't get my grade requirements.
Ok Mr big shot. Because you've been hyping yourself up on this forum on how little work you do but at the same time you're accusing these guys of having a half arsed attitude? twat
How nice. Let me start by justifying my blog, although I hardly think I need to in the face of such a blatantly immature comment. I work hard, you asshole. Very hard. And anything I write here is for the purposes of entertaining myself and other people who choose to read it, whether it be true or aadapted for entry. So if you don't like it, don't read it.
And you wouldn't be so strangely offended by such a jokey little blog if you weren't totally insecure in your ability and effort.
Again, thanks for remaining anonymous. Really beefs up your stance.
And seeing as you seem to be having trouble constructing a valid string of words (a sentence) I'll remind you that I'm not singling out non white students. It's only a few and they are proportional in quotient to the ethnic ratio of the year.
Good luck with the repressed anger issues x
No mate, there are no anger issues here. And nor is there any insecurity in ability, i'm not even in your year group. The only thing I don't like is people like you who think they are big shots making judgements on other people (who so happen to be ethnic this time) and then walking around with their noses in the air like they're something special.
You shouldn't be so quick to look down on other people who you don't even know, regardless of whether or not it is just for entertainment purposes.
And I don't read your blog for entertainment, I only read this post because someone told me too.
Good luck with your hard work.
I worked hard to get in here, and thousands of people worked just as hard and didn't get in. If complaining about people who worked less hard, wanted to be doctors less, and got in because of bribery or personal connections, be then white or not, is "a big shot judgement", then I guess I'm a big shot, and judgemental.
Grow a pair of balls and stand up for your opinions.
Seriously geezer are you stupid? How can you bribe someone to get into a UK med school? You watch too much tv
Wake up and smell the coffee, this has ceased to be an argument and has become me actually teaching you about real life.
When I said bribery did you think of the mafia and suspicious brown envelopes? Who watches too much TV now?
I mean political, familial, corporate bribery. Beurocracy.
Either that, or people with 3 Cs at A level just had reeeeally good extra-curricular CVs.
Just thought i could add, anonymously of course, that at my medical school a guy who just scraped a 2:1 in biomedsci got onto a highly competitive 4 year acelerated course, oh, did i mention his dad is a hugely successful private specialist? Dont mean to sound bitter....
Although I don't know the student, or his dad, or the school, and couldn't possibly comment, as a generic example it's quite poignant.
Anyway, I only wrote a little 20 minute entry and it seems it's rattled someone's cage.
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