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[ArizonaVet480]

What do you feel are the most important traits/qualities of a good physician?

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[gyngyn]

What do you feel are the most important traits/qualities of a good physician?

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[dafuturesurgeon]

Love for people and an urge to help them


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[Spinach Dip]

An ability to deal with a decade of training so you can get a job where you will work 80+ hours a week and get little to no recognition for it.

 

[LizzyM]

Love for people and an urge to help them...

...using modern evidence-based, scientific knowledge. Otherwise you might as well be a defense attorney, a social worker, or a member of the clergy.

 

[Dro133]

An ability to deal with a decade of training so you can get a job where you will work 80+ hours a week and get little to no recognition for it.

What if I want to go into psych?

 

[Styrene]

A fast clicking finger.

 

[piii]

Write your own damn essays lol

 

[holidayprincess]

for a surgeon: sadism and a perfect intellectual detachment from the human condition.
for a PCP: masochism and a human disregard for distancing intellectualism.
for a lifestyle specialist: a slacker's heart inside a gunner's body.

 

[mr.mkitty]

Take this with a grain of salt since I haven't started medical school and am only going off of my opinion based on several physician memoirs...
I actually think an incredibly important trait for a physician to have is intrinsic motivation.
I've read the countless negative factors that make physician's jobs difficult, stressful, and draining. Being able to have an instrinic sense of motivation that can get you past all the negatives has got to be a huge deal. And I'm not talking about just a little instrinsic motivation.. I'm talking about the type that can get you through weeks from hell that would make the average person implode.

 

[Squamous Eddie]

for a surgeon: sadism and a perfect intellectual detachment from the human condition.
for a PCP: masochism and a human disregard for distancing intellectualism.
for a lifestyle specialist: a slacker's heart inside a gunner's body.

You just described me perfectly in 7 words. Wow.

 

[MediocreGunner]

“Doctors?" said Ron, looking startled. "Those Muggle nutters that cut people up?”
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

 

[CBFutureHelper14]

What do you feel are the most important traits/qualities of a good physician?

A physician should love their craft. Good and bad parts. You don't go through all of that training to get up and say you hate your job because of x, y, and z. There are ups and downs in every profession.

 

[Optimus-Prime]

work ethic and thick skin

 

[Cytarabine]

A physician should love their craft. Good and bad parts. You don't go through all of that training to get up and say you hate your job because of x, y, and z. There are ups and downs in every profession.

That's some bull****. Go see a parent-inflicted "nonaccidental trauma" that dies and report back with your love for the experience. There are all kinds of things that straight up suck in medicine, and what those things are / the impact they have vary from person to person. I think it's much more about being able to tolerate the bad without having it weigh you down and appreciate the good

 

[whatever5]

Ability to google search efficiently.

 

[ArizonaVet480]

Ability to search WebMd efficiently.

 

[gogodre]

Grit and decent people skills. A desire to help people is great but something that 99% of the population will say they have.

 

[CBFutureHelper14]

That's some bull****. Go see a parent-inflicted "nonaccidental trauma" that dies and report back with your love for the experience. There are all kinds of things that straight up suck in medicine, and what those things are / the impact they have vary from person to person. I think it's much more about being able to tolerate the bad without having it weigh you down and appreciate the good

Of course a doctor would not love to see a patient die. There will be good and bad parts of being a doctor. You missed my point obviously.