Learning Stuff

I confess I spend a lot of my life as a medical student feeling ridicously dumb. Sometime this feeling paralyzes me and I forget how to spell my own name much less what a rt bundle branch looks like or the 17 causes of pancreatitis.  Sometimes I forget  simple things.

This past weekend I went skiing again and I apparently didn’t forget what I had learned two weeks before. It was even better than the first time.   I can turn now and break my speed. I love turning I love cutting into the side of the hill and then cutting hard back to the other side.  Its sort of like flying. By the end they were talking about taking me off the tether at my next set of lessons and I was terrified.  I knew without the tether I would fall twice as much and I was afraid of getting hurt and as always of feeling dumb.

I need to cut my tether in med school. I need to be ok with falling, with hurting my ego and realize that falling is what you do when you are learning.

yes its a cheesy analogy deal with it.