Medical students represent a homogenous sliver of our society. Not only do we come from relatively similar financial, ethnic, and political backgrounds, but we also share a common taste for money and respect. While being surrounded by such insipid people grows quickly tiresome, we can’t speak out against our colleagues without throwing light on our own hypocrisy.
Thus in the ultimate display of self denial, we lash out at students in other lucrative professions for being greedy and ‘selling out’. We organise elaborate inter-school mixers to corner law students and complain about how short their training is and how much more money they will make than we will. We then jokingly lament how much easier it is to get into Harvard Law School than Harvard Med. How we even know this is a mystery to everyone.
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