Over the course of your academic tenure here at Duke, you start to notice when people are copying you. While mimicry may be the greatest form of flattery, sometimes it really is just annoying. And lame. This has escalated recently, with random guys in white coats sitting in our original Office, some terrible rival 3rd year blog attempting to act like it is more official than How to Dominate Third Year blog, and others acting like they are dominating 3rd year as efficaciously as we Office Workers are. What really grinds my gears, however, are these 2nd years that are going through their rotations on the wards. We just did that people. Get over it. I know you want to be like us; I get it. I'd want to be like us too. But really, you're just copying, and that's no good. And don't get me started on the 1st years.... they are copying kids copying us. Muy horrible. I know you may be asking, "Barney, what about your predecessors at Duke Med?" That's a good argument, but I must retort that this is the only year that has constructed an organized Office with an official online web log of its many experiences. Such originality separates us from the rest, take note of that.
At the Office, copycats really get our goats. So I plead to you, stop copying.
Those second years have no manners. Some have asked exactly what rotations I did. Others want to know what attendings I had. And the worst ones are wearing short white coats, just like we did!
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