THINGS 200L MEDICAL STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW

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Welcome to 200 level Medicine and Surgery. Here are some things you should know.

1. PEOPLE WILL LOOK DOWN ON YOU: Congrats on making it to 200 level. However, in the medical department you can't feel relaxed as failure will cost you alot. Being in the preclinical set comes with you constantly hearing statements of how you haven't seen anything hard before, or your courses are just a piece of cake compared to clinicals. These are true of course, but don't let such intimidation get to you, do your best at your present level.

BEND THE KNEE!

Previously on this column: We talked...or well, I wrote and you probably read or stubbornly refused to open that link about Donald Trump's YOU'RE FIRED! anthem. Now open and read - or I cry. 

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“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury, and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before” - President Donald Trump (United States)

"The Trump group's declaration of the reckless nuclear war exercises against the DPRK is a reckless behaviour, driving the situation into the uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war”- North Korean state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun

"Now that the DPRK's (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name) capability to strike the very heart of the US at any given time has been physically proved, the US would find it more difficult to dare attack the DPRK"- the North Korean Foreign Ministry

Life in the ABUAD MB...

A lot of people don't know what REALLY goes on in medical school, why medicine students even DARE to choose such a course. Why would you doom yourself to boredom, stress and more books than the average library.

Well, having just passed into the clinical stage of my training, I decided that I'd share a few things and moments of my wonderful world of medicine as a pre-clinical student....