So we, because of the pandemic, are graduating early.
And of course, because of the pandemic as well, we won't be graduating together.
We'll be graduating virtually.
>> Nobody's ever going to have another graduation like this,
in our lifetimes I would imagine, and
I think there's a lot of good that's come out of it.
>> There's still some apprehension about walking into the situation right now.
And there's still anxiety and
there's still fear. We're walking into a pandemic with a lot of unknowns.
>> At the same time, though, it is exciting,
in a way, as medical students, all of us have spent the last four years
building up the skill set to be able to treat patients.
And I think there's no better year than your third year of medicine
to teach you how to adapt quickly to situations.
You're thrust into a rotation on your first day and
you don't know anything about, for example, OB GYN or surgery.
And right when you started developing some expertise,
maybe in your third week of rotation, it's the last week and so
you move on to another rotation then you're on pediatrics.
And I think for me personally, that experience was the greatest year
of personal growth in the sense that you get comfortable being uncomfortable.
>> We didn't get into medicine to just sit here with this knowledge and
skill set. Ultimately sort of the place that I think a lot of my classmates and
myself included want to be, is in the wards.
>> Just looking at all of those who trained you,
in this art, in this profession, seeing them on the frontline right now,
it's that drive, it's that desire to do good in the world.
>> And I think that's why I and a lot of my classmates are itching to help,
because we just want to be useful.
We want to make things easier for other people.
>> Medical school was the best four years of my life, I'd say.
They're very challenging but also very rewarding.
I'll always be grateful for all those who taught me.
>> I met people who will be life-long friends,
who pushed my understanding of what it means to be a health care provider,
what it means to be human, and what it means to be basically a good person.
>> There's been so much going on that,
There were enough distractions to kind
of keep me from reflecting on what graduation actually means.
But now, as it's approaching, I'm starting to get more excited.
I don't know if I'll,
I mean, I'm sure at some point I'll be used to being Dr.
Guenther, but it's going to take me a while to get used that.
>> You're going to have those two letters after your name and
you're going to actually be the physician for those patients
reading the Hippocratic Oath again, and I hadn't read it for years now,
it's heavy in the sense that the responsibility is great and
you finally understand what it means a bit better.
And I'm sure over the next couple years of training,
we'll get to understand it even more.
I do solemnly swear by whatever I hold most sacred.
>> That I will be loyal to the profession of medicine, and
just in generous to its members.
>> I will lead my life and practice my art in uprightness and honor.
>> I will do no harm.
>> And I will do no harm.
>> Into whatever home I enter it shall be for the good of the sick and
well to the utmost of my power.
I will hold myself aloof from wrong, from corruption, and
from the tempting of others to vice.
I will exercise my heart solely for the care of my patients and
the prevention of disease and will give no drugs and perform no operation for
a criminal purpose and far less suggest such a thing.
Whatsoever I shall see or hear of the lives of men and
women which is not fitting to be spoken, I will keep inviolably secret.
>> These things I do promise.
>> In proportion as I am faithful to this oath may happiness and,
>> good repute be
ever mine the opposite I shall be for smart.
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