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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. How incredibly sad.

In my experience, residency programs are looking for reasons to eliminate candidates, because there are so many who are qualified. Unfortunately, this is an easy one - history of drug use and abuse.[/quote]

Given that no one would match, and that this is probably known in the profession, the med schools should not have let her in or taken her money.

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this is a good point.  i wonder why her own medical school did not match her at their hospital as a resident.  i think what probably happened is she aimed too high: orthopedics is hard to get in to, even with a perfect record.  so then she tried again, also in a reasonably competitive specialty (ER) but was perceived as "damaged" goods--a year out of school, recs from medical school profs would be "old" at that point, etc.  by her third attempt she was really at a disadvantage.  and we don't know what field she tried to match into on her third try.  if it was ortho or ER medicine then again, those are hard fields to get spots in.  Being 2 or 3 years out of school would make her a very poor candidate in and of itself.

perhaps she should have aimed lower to begin with. her medical school advisor should have said "hey, matching in ortho probably won't happen ". but again, she was a great candidate (drug past aside)a--too student, lots of ortho research, etc -so maybe she just had bad luck.  there are good students who don't match every year and have to scramble for a spot after the match is done just because of bad luck.  Even without a drug history there are many medical school grads who aim too high (selective programs in elective specialties) or just don't match due to bad luck. it's possible this happened and then this disadvantage plus the drug history disadvantage just really hurt her. [/quote]

Plenty of MDs are successful without going through residency.  I don't see this being the med school's fault.  I think PP brings up good points that she was really going for competitive specialties and while her past may have been part of the reason she didn't match, it also may not have been.  Many people, even with incredible scores and grades, don't match where they want to, and they pivot and find another way to be happy.  That's the really sad part of this story, that she wasn't able to cope and find another way to be happy. [/quote]

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