Discrimination

The annoying bit of this suspected candidate is the all too familiar blame on discrimination - another word that has been raped for so many times that it has become a prostitute.

"Why do I fail the final MB ? Is it because I have a history of psychiatric disease?" Jove, it doesn't mean that you can pass the examination by default because you are psychotic. Of course, our man from Pluto obediently followed Benjamin Graham's advice on buying bonds: the first principle is to be free of trouble - and avoid any possible complaint or legal process.

You consider it crazy? There are better ones: "Why can't I enter the medical school? Is it because I am blind / mentally retarded / illiterate (hopefully not all of the above) ?" The amazing bit is: some similar ones do get admitted, and those creatures outside the solar system explain, "Why shouldn't we broaden our imagination? Everything is possible."

I am not sure how many of our patients would love to be cared by doctors whose admission to medical school (and treatment) is based on imagination.

PS. Well, there are seriously many of our graduates being illiterate - in a "literal" sense. God knows whether it is because of our fair admission criteria, or that's the result of our medical education.