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Other than serial killers and Tyler Durden, who only gets three hours of sleep a night?

Medical students, that’s who

Only I was a good distance away from that Noas older, wiser and, if not taller, then at least in good athletic shape since I decided to deal with it all by exercising instead of stress eating I still had soet rid of but that was okay— everyone said I had nice curves

The intense coh to make anyone need to run for miles a day, so it was a habit I had picked up from other med school students and still continued to this day There were tined to see ould crack first, as if it was some kind of bizarre experiment in Social Darwinism

Only the strongest survived, as if medical school was a sort of boot ca school was, too, I’d heard It really did take a certain breed of person not only to get into a medical career but also to stick to it

To be fair, otten better over the past few centuries The first atteo very well Aclockwork contraption, it was used only once, clai the lives of not only the patient, from post-operation infection, but also the doctor’s assistant, who lost three fingers to it and later developed gangrene, and even a nearby spectator who had had a fatal heart attack when his coat was slashed after the doctor had lost control of the tool

It was the first, and only, instance of an operation with a three hundred percent fatality rate So, things had really progressed since then and we had a lot to be thankful for

Soreat about medical school was the attitude of some of the other students The ed it so that our close friends, and most bitter enemies, were in the same class with us

As one professor bluntly put it, ere not in competition with him, or with ourselves, but instead with each other Some students seemed to take that a bit too literally There was never any cheating, or at least not that I ever saw, anyway Just some very cut-throat attitudes and a whole lot of cockiness

The worst of them all was Jake

Jake Booth, or The Iceman, as he was more commonly knoas cocky as fuck and didn’t even feel the need to engage in the nor