I have become disillusioned - disgusted even - by medical training and medicine as a
whole. I want to help others dispel their illusions as well.
Medical school is four years long. The first two years are basic science lectures, more like an extension
of college. The last two years, however, third year and fourth year, involve rotations through hospitals.
"One of the few statements with which most physicians would agree," one doctor writes, "is that the third
year, the year on the wards, is the critical year in medical education." [2] "In no year of their adult lives,"
another contends, "do students change so much as during the third year of medical school."[3] This is my
story of third year, the worst year of my life.