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“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.” — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“Flexibility means pivoting when we need to pivot and adjusting expectations to meet present challenges. Expectations should become flexpectations.”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“Watching the dynamics unfurl with curiosity rather than judgment can make addressing and shifting them a collaborative rather than adversarial activity.”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“committing to a med student means committing to their timeline. This timeline controls a med student’s location and choices for many years, and you will not be immune from its effects.”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.” — Diane Ravitch”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“Our lives are Play-Doh — ours to shape and harden however we see fit.”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“I am here to tell you that it is OK to grieve. It is OK to feel sad that your life may not look the way you thought it would. You can even grieve if you feel grateful and happy with your current life.”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“Many people think that the secret to reconnecting with their partner is a candlelit dinner or a by-the-sea vacation. The real secret is to turn toward each other in the little ways every day.” — John Gottman, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“The important thing is to examine your grief and fit it into your story. Every story is different.”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“Frame the conversation in terms of what the two of you can do together to make things better — it is an obstacle for the two of you to face as a team. Nobody is “giving in” or “admitting” to anything because the situation owns the blame.”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“Other people’s suffering does not make your own more tolerable — at best it provides empathic allies and perspective.”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“We don’t pick and choose what to be afraid of. Our fears pick us.”
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“We don’t become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves. We don’t become what we know. Education is a process of love formation. When you go to a school, it should offer you new things to love.” — David Brooks, The Road to Character”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“In his book, Doctors’ Marriages, Michael Myers includes an apt description of medical students’ burnout response. He writes, They acclimate to toxic environments and ways of managing stresses rather than changing things so that life is lived in a more self-nurturing manner. In short, they confuse the concepts of noble and normal. Wealth of coping strength actually pre-disposes you to making a fundamental stress-management mistake: because of your exceptional coping abilities, you are at risk of normalizing what is essentially an abnormal way of living; no matter how stressed you get, you are capable of going numb and pressing on.11”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“Fear. Aching loneliness. The worry of being misunderstood. I realise now it's what we all have in common, regardless of our circumstances. We all share the fundamental need to be heard, to know we matter. It's what tethers us to one another and reminds us we are never truly alone.”
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“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.” — Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.” — Yuval Noah Harari”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“But ultimately, relationships evolve from tiny moments and finding ways to meet each other’s needs.”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“Satisfaction is more (not entirely, but more) dependent on perception than concrete equality.”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
“How do we examine and overcome the grief we feel about this unexpected life turn? When you are ready, you will write yourself a new narrative. We all tell stories about the trajectory of our lives. When something unexpected happens, part of the healing process involves weaving that episode into your story.”
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
― Love in the time of medical school: Build a happy, healthy relationship with a medical student
