M e ssa g e fro m t h e Hea d o f An ato my Dear Medical Students...Tomorrow’s Doctors, Welcome to a brave new world! At the moment you may still be basking in your glory for managing to get into the MD course! And I congratulate you over and over again, because it is truly a great achievement! Mark my words - your life will take a different twist from now on! The experience of both being a medical student, but above all, being a doctor, is truly amazing. When I was a student myself, one of our tutors told us that ‘we, as medical students, are the crème de la crème’. However, inspite of the stereotype that society may impose on you, being a medical student and eventually a doctor, does not give you any glorious powers, but actually entails that both you and those who really care for you will have to do sacrifices more that what your friends in other courses and/or jobs will ever have to endure. However not all is doom and gloom! Actually being a medical student is real fun! It is during this course that most of you will grow from adolescents to young adults (at least physically!), and that long lasting 8
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