So I've decided to write a book. It won't be completed for a while, as I plan to write about my medical and graduate school experiences, but I plan on starting the writing soon.

A plethora of books are currently in print describing "the medical school experience," most of them authored by bitter, overworked residents who have become disenchanted with medicine and are overly critical of the process of medical training as a whole.

I don't want to write another one of those. They quickly become old and predictable. Who knows, I may not think highly of medical training by the time I'm done either, but at least I know what I'm getting myself into. Many of those authors write as if they had no clue before entering medical school about the grueling hours, the stress, the sleep deprivation, the relationship struggles, the competition, the inexorable blows on self esteem, and all of the other negative aspects of medicine. To prepare myself for these things would be impossible, but it is with the terrifying knowledge of these realities that I move forward.

However, I've always considered myself an optimistic realist. I'm fairly easily contented and I tend to focus more on positives than negatives. In that respect, my perspective differs from that of many of these writers. While I certainly don't want to present a glossy, idealized view of life in medical school, I would like to discuss the good times as well as the bad.

Perhaps the most significant thing I'd like to highlight in the book is my relationship with God throughout the process. It will change and grow in ways that I can't imagine, and this excites me. I'd like to provide answers to all of the questions that I've had as a Christian pre-med, to help all of those who will wrestle with the same issues in the years following me. It will definitely be a different perspective from a lot of what is out there.

Anyways, these are early thoughts. I only got the idea a few nights ago.