This happened in early December and I posted it on DP but I shall post it here now...
So I had this linguistics assignment to do by the end of the week and my prof said we could do it in groups if we wanted to. So my friend and I decided to do it together…but then this dude in my class – ohh...let’s call him “Collin” – ( I sorta knew him from before because we talked a few times but I wouldn’t consider him a friend or even an acquaintance for that matter)……....Anyhoo, he asked me if he could do the assignment with us. I asked my friend about it and she didn’t want to so I told him “no.” He was cool with it – at first – but then he calls me a few days later saying that he has the flu, had too much school work, so he couldn’t finish the assignment and was willing to PAY us to put his name on our paper! WTF!?!?!!?! Of course I told him to FCUK OFF! (well, not exactly – it was more like “I have a serious moral dilemma with that…”)…And then, during the final exam he kept trying to cheat off my paper and started asking me for answers! THIS FCUKER DOESN’T KNOW WHEN TO QUIT!!!!
Honestly, I can’t believe there are people like this in this world – and a contender for U of T med school no less! I don’t understand how these types of people manage to get accepted into this profession when they would sink to compromising their ethics JUST to get in – or perhaps they never had any to begin with? (I’m not saying all are like this – but I know a fair bit that are)
Does anyone else find this a little unsettling? That the future of medicare in this province rests in the hands of people who lie, cheat and will pretty much do anything for prestige, power and money. Do you want these people treating you when you’re old or seriously ill? Or even your children?
posted by Shivani @ 1/01/2005 06:33:00 PM
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haha. the getting-in procedure for med school and the cutthroat and sometimes dishonest behaviour that seems to go with it single-handedly deterred me from even trying. i've always said that it's dangerous and frankly a little scary that the people who do the best and get teh furthest are the ones who basically know how to work this system the most efficiently, either through smarts/hard-work or other. and it's the "other" that is the smudge on the otherwise good idea of making it such a tough program to get into. oh and the other thing is that it tends to attract snobbery because of this unspoken social hierarchy where apparently doctors are #1 and lawyers are the next best thing, then dentists, and so on. so some people (or actually a lot) do it for the social status as much as, if not more than, wanting purely to help people be well and healthy. i've run into enough jerky doctors as a patient myself to know that. so many don't give a rat's a$$, and if nothing else, health care is the one area where the most caring and sensitivity is needed. but la fille, i know you can do it. you definitely have the determination, brains, and ETHICAL VALUES to succeed. good luck again with everything!!!
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