Housemanship in malaysia - my experience and the rest of them

I was a houseofficer once. I had to do things that all houseofficers had to do. I had to run to the blood bank for blood products. I had to wait (stupidly) at the blood bank for half an hour till the blood is ready and then run back to wherever i came from. I had to wake up early in the morning to see patients. I had to skip breakfast and lunch most of the time. I had to go home hours passed my working time. I had to come home feeling so tired that i would go straight to bed. I had to hurt my family for not being there for important family dinners and events. I had to take blood from patients and prick them again and again till they got really fed up with me. I had to pacify family members who were angry at the system for causing their relative to wait for days for an operation. I had to deal with rude nurses who thought they were so experienced and that they were better and smarter than me. I had to spend a lot of money for expensive catering before i left a particular department. I had to stay up the whole night to check on an ill patient every hour or half an hour. I had to suffer from severe stomach ache due to five hours of delayed voiding as i had no time to run to the toilet. I had to do CPR at 2am while pregnant at 35weeks, alone, while waiting for my staff who were chilling in the pantry to come and realise that the patient was not breathing anymore. I had to endure painful contractions everynight i was oncall in the emergency department when i was pregnant. I had to memorise the history of patients' in three wards before i could get a day off. I had to be patient when i got scolded for other houseofficers' mistakes. 

I went throught it. We all did. What's the big fuss? Why not enjoy every bit of it instead of whining and justifying why you shouldn't have gone through what you went through just because you 'don't plan to become doctors forever'? Why not learn and experience something as much as you can; something that only a doctor understands. I enjoyed every bit of my training. I fell, i stood up again, i learned, and i became better. I had more great moments compared to all the above. Most people concentrate too much on the bad experience when there are actually more happy times to savour and remember. You cant stand the training, quit sooner than later. Coz frankly, you are just not cut out for it.