Do you love it?

[ajp529]

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For practicing physicians:

Do you love what you do? Why?

 

[StevieStud]

There is nothing better than helping somebody in their time of need and being rewarded with a smile of joy or appreciation.

Sometimes it is just the little things.... my last win was the hug I received from a child returning for suture removal.

 

[meowdoc]

Sometimes it is just the little things.... my last win was the hug I received from a child returning for suture removal.

that's really good

 

[Cerberus]

There is nothing better than helping somebody in their time of need and being rewarded with a smile of joy or appreciation.

Sometimes it is just the little things.... my last win was the hug I received from a child returning for suture removal.

Sounds like something a pediatrician would say.

 

[EctopicFetus]

Love my job.. Weird to say but ive been off a week and actually miss it. Looking forward to getting back to work!

 

[GeneralVeers]

I don't "love it". Most days are fraught with frustration. It's a job. A job that pays well. If it only paid 50K per year I'd probably do something else, as it's not worth the hassle, stress, schedule changes, and lack of sleep.

 

[Birdstrike]

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[em1234]

Having worked 11 shifts in the last 2 weeks at my little rural hospital, including Sun and Mon which were $h!t*y shifts full of status chronicus patients and mega trolls, I was starting to get a little crispy. Today was a complete reversal, acutely ill people in need of truly emergent intervention. Flagrant sepsis in an HD player who had skipped dialysis over the weekend thus was also volume overloaded and hyperK, giant stroke in a 55yo who got lysed, hot CP, 5yo who an aspirated FB with intermittent stridor. It was so gratifying to be there, and actually HELP someone. And not the "I need a work note, or I'll get fired" help or "someone stole my percocet/xanax/soma/methadone" help. True, life altering, life saving help. No other field routinely gets the opportunity to do that, and for that reason, I love what I do and am pretty sure I always will.

-1234