probably docs that never did latin in high school
you don't need to learn latin to become an MD, but it's supposed to be a good foundation to learn latin in high school, since it
A teaches you to learn and
B have better knowledge of the terminology of medical and biological things, since most is latin based....
Mum forced me to go do latin in 1st high school year... i was not even remotely interested.. Nor did i study, was a handsfull, it was first year of school after they divorced.. messy divorce.. and i was sent to boarding school, another thing that really made me happy...
for the entire year, my score was something like 2%..(spent the exam weeks in detention and what not... i was a defiant rebel in that school... think the great escape, going awol on several occasions)... but some words stuck, one of those was Statim.. since the latin teacher would use that whenever she had called me out to do something, or stop doing it...
"Put that comic book away, statim " and other stuff like that
Mum had a plan B.. rich aunt had her son in some fancy boarding school, famous in belgium since one or more of the royals went there..Told mum to try and get me in there, she'de introduce her..
Mum knew i would never willingly go to such a stuffy place, so told me it was great there, can ride horses and what not ( i was seriously nuts about horses).
So i went, hell yeah, let's go...
unfortunately, the dean/abbot did an intake meeting, to determine if the candidate is proper material for his school...
Q " what would be your reason for wanting to come to Zevenkerken?"
A: well i heard this place is big on sports, like horseback riding , tennis and what not.
Abbot goes, well, it's true, we do sports here, but mostly soccer and volleyball, no horses i'm afraid...
Me : Well, sounds boring to me, i don't see the point in me coming here then
Crash & burn for mum's plan B... I guess that's what you can expect if one lies to ones kids