u/ReasonableSavings672

I've had so many older physician mentors tell me (and other pre-meds) that if there's any other career we'd be happy doing, we should do that instead of medicine

And it makes me reflect on getting into medical school and how it is much more competitive now than it was decades ago. So do y'all think the increased competitiveness of getting into med school has changed the type of people who become physicians? do you think it has it filtered for people who are more committed to medicine, or do you think people end up feeling the same way after years of being a doctor regardless of how hard it was to get in?

I assume most people meal prep for food, but I had a meal plan all through college and it made life so much easier because I never had to worry about cooking. It doesn't seem like a lot of people get meal plans in med school though and I'm curious as to why? My school is in a big city so there's plenty I could choose from. I'm not worried about it costing more because tbh I'd rather spend more than worry about having to cook. so my question is it a bad idea to get a meal plan?

I had mpfl reconstruction done late April, its been about 3 weeks and I am progressing quickly (or so I thought). I went from 27° to 48° in a week and then have slowed my progress and have been stuck around 65-70° barely improving each PT session. He REALLY works me hard I mean I'm dangling my leg over the edge and he's bending it past 90° but once I put my leg back on the table to do a heel slide so he can measure it only gets to 65-70° and I'm not sure what to do. I'm supposed to get to 90° by 4 weeks. I do my PT everyday at home multiple times and really try to push myself so I don't know why i'm plateauing. is this normal?

so I have schools that I have not heard back from after an interview yet and schools that have waitlisted me. I need to choose a school by May 1st (literally tomorrow) so does this mean I need to withdraw from those schools? if so, this really sucks because my top choice is a school I haven't heard from