What Keeps You Going to Work Every Morning?

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debt?
hope?
fear of failure?
shame?
you love the work?

 

[SocialistMD]

It's a pretty drive when the sun is up and I have nothing better to do.

 

[Celiac Plexus]

debt?
hope?
fear of failure?
shame?
you love the work?

These seem like reasons everyone goes to work every day, not just surgery residents.

Other reasons:

-you weren't born a billionaire
-you have a curious mind, and you'd be bored not going somewhere to work every morning
-you like the folks you work with
-your job is rewarding
-the good aspects of your job compensate for the bad aspects

 

[johnny_blaze]

debt?
hope?
fear of failure?
shame?
you love the work?

my sex drive... hospitals are filled with chicks

 

[Pir8DeacDoc]

I truly enjoy what I do. There are a lot of days I'd prefer to enjoy my day starting around 9 instead of 5, but such as life in surgery.

 

[lura]

overall, the patients, operating, and working with co-residents, in that order.

 

[njbmd]

debt?
hope?
fear of failure?
shame?
you love the work?

My love of bright lights and cold steel. 👍

 

[integra892]

i need money. im on transplant right now🙁 so not having lots of fun

 

[jdm51]

signed a contract

 

[San_Juan_Sun]

Only place I can cut people without going to jail.

 

[Winged Scapula]

The cat won't get a job to support us.

Fear of Sallie Mae thugs.

To show off my new shoes to the girls.

Blueberry pancakes in the cafeteria.

I don't feel as lazy if I go to work in PJs than if I stay home in them.

Steal supplies for my medicine cabinet.

 

[Faebinder]

The cat won't get a job to support us.

Fear of Sallie Mae thugs.

To show off my new shoes to the girls.

Blueberry pancakes in the cafeteria.

I don't feel as lazy if I go to work in PJs than if I stay home in them.

Steal supplies for my medicine cabinet.

Ditto.

 

[Castro Viejo]

Waiting for the inevitable page, "Chief Surgical Resident STAT to the ER!" getting there and then finding the ED attending panicking over having placed yet another chest tube into the:

a) liver
b) spleen
c) bowel
d) heart

The ED and its attending and resident staff is a never-ending source of entertainment for me. Medicine's next best though...

 

[Entei]

What keeps me going in to work everyday?

The cute senior resident on service this month. 👍