Becoming Doctors

(click here for Part 1: Post result NEET 18) It was 24th April 2018. The result of 2nd counselling came up today. Like the first, I wasn't allotted anything.  I had only filled General Medicine in my choices. Getting this top end branch at an okayish rank of 3500 was tough.  I wasn't expecting anything either. But the funda of Having No Expectations, doesn't always mean that the outcome wont disappoint you. Its just that when it actually happens, when the counselling actually ended, it was Official. I will be preparing for another year. When it comes to choosing a specialty, most medical students fall into 1 of 3 categories: 1) those who know exactly what they want to do; 2) those who have a sense of what they want to do but aren't sure; and 3) those who have no clue what they want to do, either because they haven't yet found something they like or because they like multiple specialties. Lucky are those who fall into the first category. I wa...

Around a lakh people aged 24-30 from all over the country, were glued to their mobile screens refreshing their browsers. No, they were not trying to be among the first ones to buy tickets to their favourite concert show. They were waiting for their exam results. The exam, whose result and its consequence is gonna stay with them for their entire life. You might ask, at such an old age? Yes, this exam was NEET PG entrance exam. These youngsters were Doctors, who even after completing their MBBS, were clueless about their lives and were waiting for the result which would decide their future. Is the exam tough? Well, I would say No. 70% Questions are basic ones, and need basic medicine knowledge, which requires decent study of all 19 subjects of the MBBS curriculum. But The thing that makes NEET PG difficult is not the questions but simply the amount of competition and fewer residency seats. There are sadly very few seats in good institutions and few MCQ marked wrong ...

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”   ―   Mahatma Gandhi A common problem we all face is inertia, procrastination. We want to get the stuff done, but are too lazy to do it, get it. What do you think control our actions ? Brain ? Correct ! But who controls the brain ? Its You !! The most basic thing important to understand is that your brain DOES NOT control you. You Control your brain and hence your actions ! For eg: If I ask you to Blink !  Common, it would take less than a second ! Blink! You did that right ?? Because YOU told your brain to close you eyes ! Friends, why is it that when you r scared, upset OR angry, you suddenly can not DO thing...