Not the first time NPR made me feel down

I just drove to bank of america to deposit some checks and I heard something that really depressed me on the radio. I was listening to NPR, of course, and the topic was on Medical School stress. They had a specialist who conducted a study across 7 different medical schools on about 200 kids from each school. The study showed that about half the students had depression and had feelings of being emotionally burnt out and mental overwhelmed. They felt like there personal identities were gone and they were just struggling to keep up. Plus the worst part was about 1/4 of all the students in the study had at one point had suicidal thoughts over the stress and medical school its self.

The guy who ran the study said that the immense amount of knowledge they must learn is too much for any one person and they always have the thought of one day one piece of info that theycant remember can mean a mans life. Also he said that the professors were not encouraging but rather condescending and harsh. Basically this study really depressed me. The fact that there are kids out there trying so hard to get through medical school, but mentally its too taxing and then to cause them to have suicidal thoughts just gets at me. I want to talk with them and tell them its okay, that life goes on and they have to relax BUT i know its much worse then that, and i couldnt help them in anyway. I dont know, knowing people want to kill themselves because their learning experience is too aggresive and demanding just depresses me. And its more upsetting knowing that there are a good amount of professors who simple cause these kids so much grief. IM not sure if this is how you make a good doctor but either way it just sits bad with me.

Also I found out lauren may not have the funds to stay in school which also is getting me down. Either way, I just really found this whole med school study distressing enough to cause me to write about it at the very least.