Going Into Medicine for the Wrong Reasons?

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Some people like money. I don't know why that's so hard to understand. Not everyone is content with driving a Ford Focus, living in a $120k house, or being unable to pay for their childrens' education. Medicine is a lot of hours but it's not like physicians work 80 hours a week from residency til death.

Most people like money, but most people also like other aspects of a career, and need to find a balance between money and job satisfaction based on other aspects of the career. Like I said previously, though, if you or anyone else can be happy in a career based solely on money, good for you. IMO, it is whether or not you are happy in a career that matters, despite what it is about the career that makes you happy.

I left a career where I was making very good money to spend 6 more years in school (2 for additional undergrad courses + 4 for med school), because I wasn't willing to be miserable for 50 - 80 hours a week just so I could have most material things that I wanted. Most of the people that I worked with did something similar after a couple of years (the exception being those that liked the work to some degree). To myself and my colleagues and friends that took similar paths, money is still important to varying degrees, but it is not enough in and of itself. Those are just the experiences that I have seen, though, so others could certainly be different.

 

[Plue00]

I'm going into medicine for all the free dilaudid and oxycontin I can get my hands on.

Is that a good reason?

I think it is.

If you think it is, then yeah man.

 

[box1]

i am going into medicine because of prestige and using my talents. i don't really care for the money BUT i WILL demand market-value when i render a service. i refuse to underpay myself based on my skill set. with that being said, caring for people is just part of the deal. it's not something that's bringing me there but i wouldn't mind "helping them out once in a while." the once-in-a-while thing being when i am in office and being compensated.

so no, i would not work for free or help someone else for free. if someone helped me for free, i would return that favor by compensation of some kind.

if i were you, i would question my behaviors (mostly study habits and interest in the actual material) and then decide. if you are lazy or just stupid in math/science and still can't change those things over a large period of time, it doesn't matter how much you want to help people. you suck at this job and can't do it. it's why i don't play in the NFL even though i love it. i can't do it, that's why.

so, question yourself first and see where you are academically. it doesn't matter if you like helping others or money or power. you actually need a brain as well as consistent hard work.

 

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Love the righteous soapbox necrobump.

 

[Avicenna]

Dear Anastomosis,

I suppose I did not realize the proper and professional nature of this forum, my dearest apologizes.

Jeezus, makes me cringe thinking about how many annoying, douchy and arrogant med students there are...

Right!? I hate it when people correct other people's grammar on the internet. it makes them sound like such tools