Lost your identity at medical school? Try doing something different

Being a medical student can feel really isolating. You’re passed from team to team like an unwanted birthday present. No one knows your name, and by the time you’ve found the toilets or a good place to store your backpack, you’re being shipped off to another placement, another team, another hospital.You went into medicine to make a difference but, five years in, the most helpful thing you’ve ever done was make someone a cup of tea (and even that caused some stress, after you heard the story of a student who brought a nil-by-mouth patient a chocolate bar before surgery). At age 18, when you imagined the next five years, you thought that you’d be learning how to save lives and making friends, all the while knowing exactly where you were headed and who you wanted to be. The reality is a little different: for most of medical school you’re…
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