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I am about to enter the 2nd year in Rads residency, but I have never felt so tired of it. I am a bit unsecure about my future - and this means to me to drop Medicine -, but I guess it may helpful to share and get some input from you.
I came to realise that I really do not enjoy to sit in front of a screen long hours (about 10h a day as a resident), day after day... I barely see the light outside and, let s say, "normal" people!
The work becomes a routine and I really I feel unpatient for all those unclear clinical questions that come TOO OFTEN on the exam requisition form - how many times we are meant to call the IM jerk to provide decent info!
I start even to notice that my vision got worse from looking so close at computer screens day after day and, honestly, I do not feel my work is valuable. I did my internship year in Geriatrics and at least there was some kind of human interaction - even if I start to realise that it is a big flop "human interaction" in Medicine... a big lie.
I also came to realise how big it can be the legal pressure on us, radiologists, as well that I find a shame that we refer to the other colleagues as "your doctor will tell you how to manage our imaging findings... ****, are not radiologists doctors too?"
I find really hard to cope with the lack of variety in the way we do Medicine and I guess that money is the thing I may regret by leaving Rads. And that s why I do even think that most of us, docs, were wrong in our choices. We were told lies during our studies about being a doctor, a job that I increasingly find precarious nowadays...
It has been hard to accept this, but I never felt so close to drop this "miserable" work life. You may read well 95 per cent of your CTs but the very day you commit a mistake... ****, no one wil stand for you! Is this worth some many hours of study and work, so many pressures on our shoulders?
I do enjoy Apache Indian comments, they are so true for someone enjoying the field. Yet they can be misleading as well, if we dare to think of so many options out of Medicine, away from the Hospital...
Tired and without motivation to burn my eyes, I really feel my time is over in Radiology. Do you guys have similar feelings?
I am really thinking of having a break and study International Business somewhere, bang a nice girl, learn foreing languages and just forget this faked idea that docs are meant to be "good".
I came to realise that I really do not enjoy to sit in front of a screen long hours (about 10h a day as a resident), day after day... I barely see the light outside and, let s say, "normal" people!
The work becomes a routine and I really I feel unpatient for all those unclear clinical questions that come TOO OFTEN on the exam requisition form - how many times we are meant to call the IM jerk to provide decent info!
I start even to notice that my vision got worse from looking so close at computer screens day after day and, honestly, I do not feel my work is valuable. I did my internship year in Geriatrics and at least there was some kind of human interaction - even if I start to realise that it is a big flop "human interaction" in Medicine... a big lie.
I also came to realise how big it can be the legal pressure on us, radiologists, as well that I find a shame that we refer to the other colleagues as "your doctor will tell you how to manage our imaging findings... ****, are not radiologists doctors too?"
I find really hard to cope with the lack of variety in the way we do Medicine and I guess that money is the thing I may regret by leaving Rads. And that s why I do even think that most of us, docs, were wrong in our choices. We were told lies during our studies about being a doctor, a job that I increasingly find precarious nowadays...
It has been hard to accept this, but I never felt so close to drop this "miserable" work life. You may read well 95 per cent of your CTs but the very day you commit a mistake... ****, no one wil stand for you! Is this worth some many hours of study and work, so many pressures on our shoulders?
I do enjoy Apache Indian comments, they are so true for someone enjoying the field. Yet they can be misleading as well, if we dare to think of so many options out of Medicine, away from the Hospital...
Tired and without motivation to burn my eyes, I really feel my time is over in Radiology. Do you guys have similar feelings?
I am really thinking of having a break and study International Business somewhere, bang a nice girl, learn foreing languages and just forget this faked idea that docs are meant to be "good".