My Big Fat Medical Delusion Part I

It all happened more than 5 years ago, i was still in high school ( Thanwaya 3ama ) , it was this stage of your life where the rest of your life depends on your actions and the decisions you make in this two years , that's the stupidest system anyone can wish for , but never mind the system am not talking about it , in this phase of my life i was addicted to two TV series ; "ER" and "LA Doctors" which you can from the titles they are about doctors pursuing their medical careers, watching these shows i realized that it would be really nice to become a doctor , always on the run saving patients and having a great role in life , and in the end of the day you feel satisfied about yourself cause u mane a change in someone's life , may be a family's life !

The day came and the results was out , mine were good ; it gave me the possibility to join anything i want , so logically as any Egyptian secondary stage student with good results my choices were what they called the Top Colleges which were 3 in my case :Medicine , Dentistry and Pharmacy . i had my my sight onto Dentistry since i was in high school cause it's not as hard as Med school and many of my friends had the same goal so back then we all had decided Dentistry it is BUT after the results came out almost all of my friends bailed on the Dentistry idea, only one didn't . And for me at that time i saw no difference between Med school and Dentistry , at least with Med school i would have more options later on , but with dentistry there weren't any other alternatives , you can only become a dentist. Plus having both parents in the medical field they kept going on and on about how it's so good being a doctor and how people always tend to exaggerate and that Med school is not that hard , and it's a place where u need to work hard to get good scores like anywhere else , so after a lot of thinking i decided it's gonna be Med. School .

The big day finally came , my first day as a college freshman , and i had this Soap opera's version of university , a place with many vast green spaces , many shady areas , it's like hangin' out with your friends , people wearing their best outfits ( I had to wear a school uniform for 13 years) , and people socializing and having a good time , only they have to attend lectures and section But at wasn't anywhere near that , it was the farthest thing from that . There was no vast green spaces , neither shady areas and the weather wasn't fine all the time , it was too damn hot and sun every everywhere , no cafes or places to chill , People weren't socializing , actually people were divided in these groups which were like private clubs , you can't join it's only for members kinda act , and you find this strange peculiar kind of people , the second the lectures end , you don't find anyone there , they just vanish ! not to mention that people wore a depressing set of colours consisted of black,grey, navy , Paige and all the other unpleasant colours . Just by walking there you can sense the essence of the doomed place , people looking unhappy not a single smile on any one's face , everyone is worried and under stress , too much adrenaline in the air. And after some time people stop caring about their appearance , they lose the interest , they start wearing anything no matter how hideous or unmatching they look , it doesn't matter anymore !

And you actually find that people treat college doctors like gods , he may run you over with his car and yet you can't complain cause they have the keys to your entire future , by a single word a doctor can ruin your entire life , they control everything . Actually an ophthalmology doctor was this close from flunking me at the orals last year because of my hair gel and my goatee , he just didn't like so for him that was enough, let alone they only judge you by your appearance , i mean for crying out loud he shouldn't be able to do so, and what really pisses me off is that i don't really hate Med. school , i like the stuff they teach us there and really appreciate it , it's just that i know that this could ' ve gone much more better , it could ' ve been more organized , more educational and even more fun , but it's no use crying over spilt milk .