while i'm waiting...
while i'm waiting for the lecture videos to completely download, i figured i might as well write in this thing. i guess you can say that i'm giving into peer pressure considering out of the 2 or 3 that regularly read this journal, one of you spoke up.
spring's here, an update from the last post. the days are longer and the breezes are actually warm, instead of bone-chillingly sharp. it's nice to see some sun - after a winter of barely seeing a speckle of light, i'm completely amazed at how much sunlight can exist.
ok that was filler material, i'm not really sure what to write -- i'm just trying to take up space, the download's at 53%.
here's something... in the span of 4 days, 3 separate people, 2 of whom i would consider mentors, have told me that my personality is not suitable for radiology. this came up in the context of them asking what my plans were for this summer (radiology research), and having their reactions be one of shock and condescension -- "radiology??? why on earth would you do that? you don't have the personality" i guess the stereotype that exists for radiologists is that they have absolutely no doctor-patient interaction skills; their days are spent in a basement looking at a computer screen which completely wipes out any semblence of personality that was left -- we are left with shells of people that make robotic diagnoses that are, 99.5% of the time, correct.
i'm too "bubbly," too "likeable" to be a radiologist they say. what?? what does that mean? maybe i'll change how the world views radiologists, from old curmudgeons to a bunch of bubbly, likeable asians. maybe i'll be the winner of Mr. Congeneality at the annual radiologist awards... maybe i be the first radiologist to hand deliver the diagnoses to the patients, and give them a hug at the end? whatever the case, how can institutional medicine type-cast me as a non-radiologist?
that's all i have to say, the end.