While I appreciate your candor/inquiry (and the sweet, sweet anonymity of the interwebs) you should NEVER ever say this outloud...In your career, you will encounter many different physicians. Some of them good/bad, some hate their job/others live to work. HOWEVER, even the most short-tempered surgeon or schizoid pathologist will say a)that they do it to help people b) that they will take as much time as necessary to do their job correctly (including talking to patients
- jk jk). Whether they genuinely believe in this/actually follow-thru is neither here nor there. Our vernacular is now full-blown PC (we even invented the euphemistic treadmill-yay!). So as soon as you start to meditate on parts a/b above (via TM, natch) the easier whatever field you go into will be. Saying you've got only 10 minutes of patience (the amount of time it takes to watch the before of a hgtv show...f that I only want to see afters!) sounds like you don't give a
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That being said...No matter what you go into, if you take your job seriously you will be shocked at how much you change and learn to adapt to less than ideal situations. Hell, you may even realize you like things like spending MORE time with patients (vs foley checks). Best advice i ever got--go into what you enjoy reading about. As someone who did psychiatry after finishing a road residency, it was worth it. And for the record, I would do it again.