Day 039: A Medical Student

Day 039:

"Yan ang marka ng isang medical student. Kahit saan, kahit paano, kaya nilang matulog." [That is the mark of a medical student. Anywhere they find themselves, in any way they need to, they can sleep.]

My mother, an established and successful physician, told my siblings these things, as they watched me fall asleep in my chair, as we waited for our food in a restaurant somewhere along Bonifacio High Street. She has thus established empirically, what the essence of a medical student is.

By essence, I of course refer to the "philosophical" essence of an object. What makes something, something. If we strip the stereotype of a medical student of his or her studiousness, is the person still a medical student? Of course, yes. There are just as many grade-conscious, obsessive, studious students, as there are ones who devote their lives to video games and DOTA. We can do the same to many other characteristics attributed to being a medical student.

But if I may, among the many characteristics of people, I believe all medical students are sleep deprived. *bow* thus the essence of medical studenthood.


Thus, without further ado, I present to you, an image of the essence of the medical student. ZZZZ...