Spoiled

Paranoid audience may note that I seemed to be inferring the phenomenon of spoiled Hong Kong kids to our medical students.

Don't go that far. There are, in fact, two problems here:

1. mistakes that we committed while planning the medical curriculum
2. delinquent local medical students

But, the presence of the two does not necessarily mean a causal relationship. When you come to think of it, some of our students are likely spoiled - as a result of their parents and secondary school education - before they get into the university. We have nothing to do with those problematic students.

Well, yes, we do contribute.

We produce spoiled doctors.

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At this point, a scene of Beneath the Wheel (車輪下) of Hermann Hesse came through my mind:

The teachers sighed, "How could a brilliant student turn into a mess like this ?"

Pointing his hand to those teachers, the shoemaker at a corner told his friends, "They are the ones who made the mess."