Is it valid to cry over opening your first stethoscope?
I am an M0 student starting in August and I just got my first stethoscope. And I started crying because it feels like my dream is coming true. I have always wanted to become a doctor and coming from poverty, it always felt like a unreachable dream. And now I get to be a doctor iA.
But afterwards I was like am I overreacting?
But I am genuinely extremely extremely going crazy. I get to be a doctor iA?
All my life I saw docs and would literally dream of being in their shoes one day and now I can be the one to put my stethoscope around my neck? I feel like I am hallucinating and it will all be taken away.
Did any of you all have similar experiences? And if you did, did this feeling occur again before the first class? First anatomy lab? Clinicals?
Sorry, I am going crazy.....