Last fall I went to a talk run by the UofT Internal Medicine Club and at the end of the session there were sign ups for medical students interested in being matched for a shadowing experience with physicians from various non-surgical specialties.  I can't remember what specialties I wrote down, I think it was internal medicine as a first choice (e.g. general internist) and then neurology as a second choice.  I wasn't really thinking too much at the time.

Well I got hooked up with a neurologist (sign, anyone? haha) at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.  I'm not going to mention his name out of sake of privacy, despite the fact that I thought he was fantastic and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

It was my first time going to Sunnybrook, and I was using their shuttle bus service to get there directly from Women's College Hospital (which is downtown and fairly close to me).  Because I didn't have a pass for those hospitals, I had to get a bus pass directly from the hospital, and the person who gave me the pass told me to just tell the driver that I needed the pass for the round trip (even though the pass says it's only meant for one trip).  Obviously, when I hop on the bus, the driver tells me no, I can't use it for a round trip, despite me giving the name of the person I talked with and everything (they were just being responsible of course, so I can't really be upset or anything).  Good thing my buddy had negotiated another pass for me last week from Sunnybrook!