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If you could get all the information you needed to be a doctor from a textbook, you wouldn't be in medical school for four years. You'd study for a year, write your finals, and be done.

The reason you don't do that is because you know that it takes more than textbooks to make a doctor. It takes patient care. And an interest in people. It takes humanity and a lifelong dedication to learning from your surroundings.

So by that definition, you've been a doctor your whole life...

Rock those exams.


I know that this is one of the many night's that I'm going to have before a major exam from this year on. This is the first final hour of many final hours to come...

And I also know that no matter how prepared I am, or how unprepared, this feeling will never change. I will simply need to change to accommodate it. I will need to adapt. I will need to not let this get the better of me.

Tomorrow, our first summative Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), will be the first of many. I am psyched, I am scared, I am excited, but most of all, I am curious... I am curious about how I will perform under pressure.

I tend to surprise myself sometimes... But the biggest surprise is that, as always, I can go either way. I'm like a wonky Christmas Cracker, where you're never quite sure what you're going to get.

One thing's for sure, I'm going to have to keep my head on straight and my wits about me tomorrow. I know I can do this. I was born to do this. I just need to remain calm enough to let my natural self rock this exam... That's all.

I hope Arianna doesn't mind me posting her quote up here. I felt I needed to have it up somewhere where I could take a look at it now and then. I needed to have her words immortalised somewhere convenient, for any future time if ever I doubt myself and the reason why I'm here.

I know that I'm one of the lucky ones. I would be nowhere without the people who love me.