Whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger?
That’s pretty much the entire theory behind medical school, internship, and residency. If you survive it you get to be a doctor. They cram you full of information, facts, figures, and formulas. They set you lose on patients. They have you work thirty-six hour shifts and if you survive that, and if your patients survive that, for years and years on end, you get to be a doctor.
Does it work? He doesn’t know that it has ever been done any other way. Dr. Burke went through it. Dr. Burke was strong. He was as strong as they came. But was it because of the medical school system?
He didn’t know.
He did know a thing or two about disease, though… he knew that being weakened by one left you more susceptible to another. He knew that innocent little things like a simple infection could pose major problems if surviving a bout with tuberculosis left your body resistant to medication.
But he couldn’t let himself think too much about it. He had to get through his residency. He had to become a doctor… and if the schedule he was killing himself to keep wasn’t making him stronger… he didn’t even want to think about it.
George O'Malley
Grey's Anatomy
205
Does it work? He doesn’t know that it has ever been done any other way. Dr. Burke went through it. Dr. Burke was strong. He was as strong as they came. But was it because of the medical school system?
He didn’t know.
He did know a thing or two about disease, though… he knew that being weakened by one left you more susceptible to another. He knew that innocent little things like a simple infection could pose major problems if surviving a bout with tuberculosis left your body resistant to medication.
But he couldn’t let himself think too much about it. He had to get through his residency. He had to become a doctor… and if the schedule he was killing himself to keep wasn’t making him stronger… he didn’t even want to think about it.
George O'Malley
Grey's Anatomy
205