Dating a med student? Check out these tips for a "healthy" relationship
1. Don't expect to see them. Ever.
2. Accept the fact they will have many
affairs. With their books.
3. Learn to hide your “ew, gross”
reactions when they tell you all the
stuff you never wanted to know about
your bodily functions.
4. Support them when they come home
after each test, upset because they
failed—and gently remind them after
they get their well above passing
grade how unnecessary the “I’m
going to fail out of medical school
and never become an MD” dramatics
are.
5. Each week they will have a new
illness. Some will be extremely rare,
others will be more mundane.
Doesn’t matter. They will be certain
they have it (no second opinions
necessary.) Med school can, and will,
turn even the sanest into a
hypochondriac. Date them for long
enough, and you’ll become one too.
6. There will be weeks you'll forget you
even have a boyfriend—friends will
ask how he is and you'll say, “What?
Who? Oh....right. He's well...I think.”
7. They'll make you hyper-aware that
germs are everywhere and on
everything. Even though you used to
walk into your home with your shoes
on, and sit on your bed in the same
clothes you just wore while riding the
subway, or sat on a public bench in,
you'll become far too disgusted to
ever do it again. Believe me, it's
going to get bad...you'll watch
yourself transform into the anal
retentive person you swore you'd
never become. And when you witness
others perform these same acts that,
before you began dating your med
student, you spent your entire life
doing too, you'll wince and wonder,
“Ew! How can they do that? Don't
they know how many germs and
bacteria they're spreading??!”
8. Romantic date = Chinese take-out in
front of the TV on their 10 minute
study break.
9. A vacation together consists of a trip
down the street to Walgreens for new
highlighters and printer paper.
10. Their study habits will make you feel
like a complete slacker. For them,
hitting the books 8-to-10 hours a day
is not uncommon, nor difficult. You'll
wonder how you ever managed to
pass school on your meager one hour
of studying per night.
11. They're expected to know everything.
Everything! The name of the 8
billion-lettered, German sounding cell
that lives in the depths of your inner
ear, the technical term for the “no
one's ever heard of this disease”
disease that exists only on one foot of
the Southern tip of the African
continent. But ask them if your knee
is swollen, or what you should do to
tame your mucous-filled cough, or
why the heck your head feels like
someone's been drilling through it for
oil for two weeks straight, and they
won't have a clue.
12. “My brain's filled with so much
information, I can't be expected to
remember THAT!" will be the
standard excuse for forgetting
anniversaries, birthdays, and, if you
get this far, probably the birth of
your first-born.
13. You'll need friends with unending
patience who pretend never to get
sick of listening to your endless
venting and complaints. Or, you'll
need to pay a therapist who will
pretend never to get sick of listening
to your endless venting and
complaints.
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2. Accept the fact they will have many
affairs. With their books.
3. Learn to hide your “ew, gross”
reactions when they tell you all the
stuff you never wanted to know about
your bodily functions.
4. Support them when they come home
after each test, upset because they
failed—and gently remind them after
they get their well above passing
grade how unnecessary the “I’m
going to fail out of medical school
and never become an MD” dramatics
are.
5. Each week they will have a new
illness. Some will be extremely rare,
others will be more mundane.
Doesn’t matter. They will be certain
they have it (no second opinions
necessary.) Med school can, and will,
turn even the sanest into a
hypochondriac. Date them for long
enough, and you’ll become one too.
6. There will be weeks you'll forget you
even have a boyfriend—friends will
ask how he is and you'll say, “What?
Who? Oh....right. He's well...I think.”
7. They'll make you hyper-aware that
germs are everywhere and on
everything. Even though you used to
walk into your home with your shoes
on, and sit on your bed in the same
clothes you just wore while riding the
subway, or sat on a public bench in,
you'll become far too disgusted to
ever do it again. Believe me, it's
going to get bad...you'll watch
yourself transform into the anal
retentive person you swore you'd
never become. And when you witness
others perform these same acts that,
before you began dating your med
student, you spent your entire life
doing too, you'll wince and wonder,
“Ew! How can they do that? Don't
they know how many germs and
bacteria they're spreading??!”
8. Romantic date = Chinese take-out in
front of the TV on their 10 minute
study break.
9. A vacation together consists of a trip
down the street to Walgreens for new
highlighters and printer paper.
10. Their study habits will make you feel
like a complete slacker. For them,
hitting the books 8-to-10 hours a day
is not uncommon, nor difficult. You'll
wonder how you ever managed to
pass school on your meager one hour
of studying per night.
11. They're expected to know everything.
Everything! The name of the 8
billion-lettered, German sounding cell
that lives in the depths of your inner
ear, the technical term for the “no
one's ever heard of this disease”
disease that exists only on one foot of
the Southern tip of the African
continent. But ask them if your knee
is swollen, or what you should do to
tame your mucous-filled cough, or
why the heck your head feels like
someone's been drilling through it for
oil for two weeks straight, and they
won't have a clue.
12. “My brain's filled with so much
information, I can't be expected to
remember THAT!" will be the
standard excuse for forgetting
anniversaries, birthdays, and, if you
get this far, probably the birth of
your first-born.
13. You'll need friends with unending
patience who pretend never to get
sick of listening to your endless
venting and complaints. Or, you'll
need to pay a therapist who will
pretend never to get sick of listening
to your endless venting and
complaints.
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Advice for dating an investment banker...do not get a prenup and just do whatever the **** you want.
They won't know, they won't really care either...
They won't know, they won't really care either...
Original post by queen-bee
No wonder why my Danish friend couldn't hack medical school anymore and his girlfriend never sees him about
Danish girls are hot.
Most people in my year group are taken (lots of LDRs though)...clearly people manage to make it work 
8 is a load of crap - assuming it's not exam time, you really have no excuse for not going somewhere interesting over the weekend with your bf/gf.
The big thing that sucks about being a single med student is that the long hours and medic bubble make it difficult to meet anyone new.
8 is a load of crap - assuming it's not exam time, you really have no excuse for not going somewhere interesting over the weekend with your bf/gf.
The big thing that sucks about being a single med student is that the long hours and medic bubble make it difficult to meet anyone new.
Original post by Democracy
Most people in my year group are taken (lots of LDRs though)...clearly people manage to make it work
8 is a load of crap - assuming it's not exam time, you really have no excuse for not going somewhere interesting over the weekend with your bf/gf.
The big thing that sucks about being a single med student is that the long hours and medic bubble make it difficult to meet anyone new.
8 is a load of crap - assuming it's not exam time, you really have no excuse for not going somewhere interesting over the weekend with your bf/gf.
The big thing that sucks about being a single med student is that the long hours and medic bubble make it difficult to meet anyone new.
Mind you, you can probably get off with a fellow health care professional.
Original post by Zarek
Mind you, you can probably get off with a fellow health care professional.
Doesn't really happen that often as a med student - the scattered nature of placements means that you're barely on a ward long enough to get to know the permanent members of staff that well (especially since everyone seems to work different hours/days). Hence the medic bubble - the only people you end up getting to know are fellow med students in your own year.
Unfortunately, real life isn't like Carry On Doctor
Original post by queen-bee
No wonder why my Danish friend couldn't hack medical school anymore and his girlfriend never sees him about
How did he use to heck it ?
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Too funny but also so true
Original post by SquareBrackets
Advice for dating an investment banker...do not get a prenup and just do whatever the **** you want.
They won't know, they won't really care either...
They won't know, they won't really care either...
Pre-nups are a must on the bankers side.
Although the caring bit is probably true.
Original post by Abdul-Karim
Pre-nups are a must on the bankers side.
Although the caring bit is probably true.
Although the caring bit is probably true.
Well obviously, but I'm giving the other side some advice.
Original post by Democracy
Most people in my year group are taken (lots of LDRs though)...clearly people manage to make it work
8 is a load of crap - assuming it's not exam time, you really have no excuse for not going somewhere interesting over the weekend with your bf/gf.
8 is a load of crap - assuming it's not exam time, you really have no excuse for not going somewhere interesting over the weekend with your bf/gf.
I think has to do with the mentality of medics. Even if you do go out with your partner been away from your books for a long time is very very weird. And the medic bubble you are referring too would make it boring if you dating a medical student unlike dating a cab driver whose easy going in life.
medic bubble make it difficult to meet anyone new.
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Original post by Zarek
Mind you, you can probably get off with a fellow health care professional.
E.g nurses. They crush on doctors all the time.
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Original post by AsandaLFC
I think has to do with the mentality of medics. Even if you do go out with your partner been away from your books for a long time is very very weird. And the medic bubble you are referring too would make it boring if you dating a medical student unlike dating a cab driver whose easy going in life.
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You make such weird posts about medicine/doctors
Time management isn't that difficult especially if you're in pre clinical years.
One or two is true, the rest is garbage.
Original post by MrsSheldonCooper
Too funny but also so true
One or two is true, the rest is garbage.
Original post by AsandaLFC
I have yet to start but my friend would always complain to me about workload
How hard can it be, really...
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