I've been in situations where reviewing a selection of sentiments as presented by hallmark cards could have improved my response so I can imagine something like this happening.

But this article specifically convinces me that it was not written by some one with those experiences.

Also, I've got a friend who started med school in their thirties, hearing about it from him I do not think your supposition is particularly inflammatory. I went through an engineering program which was time consuming and generally considered challenging and I still wonder at what sort of internal alchemy keeps proto-doctors in the program and not doing literally anything else with their time.