Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
working an average of 14 hours a day, five to six days a week, for 25 years--that it's a level of work no one who's not been through this training or profession can ever begin to appreciate or conceive of.
Its true that medical school and the world of medicine in general is INSANELY competitive, but I think you're going a little far there. I come from Bogota, Colombia, where I briefly worked at a repair garage, earning Less than $1.50 an hour. A buddy of mine working there was supporting his entire family, so he was there pretty much any time that he wasnt sleeping. A med student or nurse in the United States works their ass off for a long time, but there is a future in it, and i would venture to guess that most of their working environment is at least air conditioned. A lot of the world outside the U.S. doesn't even have a clean municipal water system.

I'm sure what you've been through has been testing, but please keep in mind that you aren't the only one out there that works hard.