Jul 13, 2008 22:10
I emerge unchanged from the last two years of didactic learning in medical school, I declared talking to Soc the other day. You think that at our ages, he being five years my senior, we'd be different people at the end of one of the most demanding and strenuous educations in the world. However, we ended up as regular people, just trying to get through life in medical school.
Being a doctor though, the essential meaning of it, changed greatly throughout these couple of years. I started to understand how obtrusive government regulations are and on the other side how much medicine wants to change. In fact, I don't think it's only medicine that's changing, I remember 8 years ago when I got into college and how I was so happy to be able to vote. Unfortunately, I did not vote in 2000, the first year I was able to vote. My mom gave me a hard time about it, thankfully California went to Gore.
In 2004, I voted for Kerry and I remember I voted in Culver City, Los Angeles, right before I went to work. I think I technically graduated by then, but I was taking classes at UCLA to satisfy medical school prerequisites. I am trying to think back eight years ago, I really do think life for everyone was a lot better then. Yeah, things changed greatly since then, but I feel like things are going to get much worse than they get better.
No, I don't think the next election is going to solve anything in the short fun. No, I don't think Obama becoming president is going to solve our wars, energy crisis or global warming. What we need now, more than ever is just a drastic change in the way we're living. I am not sure if everyone's ready just yet. That's why things are probably going to get worse before they get better.
I'm buying a bike, I only live a couple of miles from the hospital. There's no excuse why I can't just ride to school, even if El is scared that something bad may happen. Patients just have to deal with a slightly sweaty Asian American kid asking them about their medical history. I'm stuck in a moral decision on whether I should go in for an iPhone, especially since it's run by AT&T. If ATT is doing is wire-tapping you, you can bet your ass Verizon is as well.
I want change, I'm not a liberal. They all died in the 70s, I'm something different, hopefully someone who's going to help guide the change we all need.