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The Fifth Age

Drawing and narratives are mine, the music is by Hanz Zimmer from Dream Works's The Prince of Egypt (one of my favourites).

The title of this chapter is 'The Romance of the Three Kingdoms', if you flip through the grad book the clinical year's splash page for 5th and 6th years is also called that. This is in reference to a Chinese classic that is about the fall of the Han Dynasty when China was in civil war between three kingdoms. I'll leave you to dissect the connotations...

In this tale the part of the Princess had to be down played a fair bit. The Three Kingdoms here refers to the civil both to the internal conflict between having to chose between three things as represented by the three ethnicities of the three characters.

When I think of fifth year, I remember a lot of strife between the clinical schools and also I remember the breakdown of idealism of a lot of people who started to question whether this was really what they want in life.

Gupta's internal struggle was meant to be a metaphor for our own struggle with coming to terms with our career that was going to be in our grasp very shortly; and that we had a choice between going ahead and not.

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