there's strange culture in medicine. people are less friendly to each other than i imagined.i gotan MD and a phD in Neuroscience. i'm finishing my residency right now.i guess i thought that everyone would be compassionate, and would help each other, and would be nice to each other. And don't get me wrong, i work with a lot of compassionate people. But the stress just erodes people. There's a lot of tension and anger. We're taught that 80 hours per week is mormal and shouldn't be questioned. But at the same time, a huge amount of work that medical interns do is administrative. It could be outsourced without affecting the quality of education or care. And the culture does real harm.