Comments on: True Tales of Medical School: The Gunner

By: DNA Girl

DNA Girl — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:13:12 +0000

Have to admit – I’m a gunner. Not nearly as bad as her though, at the end of the day easy questions only help in me getting a high score so you won’t get any complaints out of me!

By: Will Power

Will Power — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:46:42 +0000

My wife is a med student and I’m a law student. Comparing our experiences, med school gunners are more arrogant (criticizing the prof’s methods) while law school gunners are more devious. At my law school, gunners will blatantly capitalize on other students’ mistakes during in-class Socratic dialogue and sabotage people’s efforts. I caught one gunner scratching a student’s name off the prof’s office hour sign-up sheet and another gunner ripping pages out of library books.

Thankfully at most schools the gunners are shunned, so they have to without the support of classmates, which is what law school depends on.

By: EL

EL — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:45:24 +0000

Interesting. I never had a true gunner in my vet class at MSU (I wonder if it was the same MSU as Maura’s), but ran into several at the University of Chicago among the pre-meds there and the pre-law students. One actually checked out material on reserve and kept it out past the due date (way past the due date) so that other students couldn’t read it. One of my friends went into the biochemistry class during their first exam and after about 45 minutes jumped up screaming “I can’t take it anymore!!!” and ran from the classroom.

By: WW

WW — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:25:18 +0000

You have to wonder?

By: Stephens

Stephens — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:14:19 +0000

I wondered whether House was a gunner when he went to MS.

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By: suzjazz

suzjazz — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:27:47 +0000

I couldn’t help laughing at the three colors of ink and the highlighter. I did not go to med school, but I recognize the gunner in a lot of my college classes. The thing that amazes me is the arrogance. Where I went to college, no one would ever presume to criticize the professor’s teaching methods.
I hope Becky isn’t practicing medicine now, but I fear that she is.

By: RIshi

RIshi — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:11:12 +0000

I’ll be starting medical school this July and am hoping the “gunner”-ness of my 175 fellow classmates is kept to a minimum. Competition is good, but balance is better.

By: Psudo

Psudo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:17:22 +0000

If white politicians can get elected by denouncing racism against racial minorities (read: non-whites), why criticize Alok who profits nothing?

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:21:31 +0000

Alok: While every ethnic group has its “bad apples”, Ben made no mention of that fact; he and his classmates are purposely restricting study material from the Indian students because they see them as “greey” and “dreaming of their cushy jobs”. Weighing in on his side, you have (I presume inadvertently) applied that prejudice to yourself; are you, then, greedy, grasping, and in medicine only because it can get you a cushy job?