Where do you find the joy in your work?

[PreMedSucks]

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I really want to be a doctor, but I'm getting so scared out of it lately. It sounds like EVERYTHING is bad. Giving bad news, sticking your hands up peoples butts, etc. Is it just one long string of bad? Where do you find the pleasure in your job?

 

[Hemorrage]

I really want to be a doctor, but I'm getting so scared out of it lately. It sounds like EVERYTHING is bad. Giving bad news, sticking your hands up peoples butts, etc. Is it just one long string of bad? Where do you find the pleasure in your job?

jesus christ- do us all a favor and get into medical school first- better yet don't apply

 

[Aerus]

I really want to be a doctor, but I'm getting so scared out of it lately. It sounds like EVERYTHING is bad. Giving bad news, sticking your hands up peoples butts, etc. Is it just one long string of bad? Where do you find the pleasure in your job?

This is what shadowing/clinical experience is for. Not everyone is cut out to be a doctor (not for intellectual/academic reasons, but rather of personal interest/preferences too) and you better find out earlier than later. Don't want to waste 1-3 years worth of medical school tuition only to find out that you can't stand patients.

 

[MDschoolorbust]

OP shows maturity with "sticking hands up people's butts" comment.

 

[PreMedSucks]

well i most definitely hope i don't end up like all of the stuck up medical students who think they are so much better than everyone asking questions that THEY TOO once asked. Yes, i am convinced that I would most definitely be a better doctor than all of you if you will answer your patients the same cold hearted way you answer premeds on this forum.

 

[Wubbles]

:troll:

Move along, PreMedSucks.

 

[Morsetlis]

I really want to be a doctor, but I'm getting so scared out of it lately. It sounds like EVERYTHING is bad. Giving bad news, sticking your hands up peoples butts, etc. Is it just one long string of bad? Where do you find the pleasure in your job?

Lol.

 

[NickNaylor]

I really want to be a doctor, but I'm getting so scared out of it lately. It sounds like EVERYTHING is bad. Giving bad news, sticking your hands up peoples butts, etc. Is it just one long string of bad? Where do you find the pleasure in your job?

Yep, it's all "one long string of bad" - never have I ever run across a physician that actually enjoys his/her job.

 

[oldbearprofessor]

I really want to be a doctor, but I'm getting so scared out of it lately. It sounds like EVERYTHING is bad. Giving bad news, sticking your hands up peoples butts, etc. Is it just one long string of bad? Where do you find the pleasure in your job?

Every day. Spend some quality time at the famous "Any Children's Hospital" in the world and see what the docs think there.

Yep, it's all "one long string of bad" - never have I ever run across a physician that actually enjoys his/her job.

Presumably you're being sarcastic. Regardless though, your comment is likely to be taken as written and fortunately for both of us, it would appear we haven't met. Nor apparently have you met a couple hundred of my colleagues at the famous "Any Children's Hospital".

 

[Jeff Smoker]

I really want to be a doctor, but I'm getting so scared out of it lately. It sounds like EVERYTHING is bad. Giving bad news, sticking your hands up peoples butts, etc. Is it just one long string of bad? Where do you find the pleasure in your job?

I see you don't have much clinical experience. It is just one long string of bad, except for sticking my hand up peoples butts. That's the best part.

 

[Oxer45]

I really want to be a doctor, but I'm getting so scared out of it lately. It sounds like EVERYTHING is bad. Giving bad news, sticking your hands up peoples butts, etc. Is it just one long string of bad? Where do you find the pleasure in your job?

You gotta ease into the medical field. In my last rotation in ED, they had premed observers. One observer girl came in, she was dressed like she was going to an interview, all nice and preppy. A pt coded, collasped veins, doc trying to get a central line in to give some meds, while residents do CPR. Should've seen the look of horror in her face. It sucks to see someone die in the first hour you're at the hospital. So do your volunteer work at a derm clinic or psych clinic.

 

[QuizzicalApe]

I really want to be a doctor, but I'm getting so scared out of it lately. It sounds like EVERYTHING is bad. Giving bad news, sticking your hands up peoples butts, etc. Is it just one long string of bad? Where do you find the pleasure in your job?

You don't see any good there? If you can't see the humor in putting a finger in a butt then, man, I don't know what to tell you.

 

[DrMediterranean]

No joy at this point. Just pain and despair. Nursing assistant for more than 4 years.

 

[NickNaylor]

Presumably you're being sarcastic. Regardless though, your comment is likely to be taken as written and fortunately for both of us, it would appear we haven't met. Nor apparently have you met a couple hundred of my colleagues at the famous "Any Children's Hospital".

Sarcasm indeed. 😎 With the exception of the occasional jerk, most physicians that I've met love their jobs and wouldn't do anything else in the world despite the numerous problems with practicing medicine.

I think you guys in those children's hospitals have some kind fairy dust you're able to sprinkle into the ventillation system to make everyone happier. Seldom am I in a bad mood when I spend significant time in a children's hospital.

 

[ppfizenm]

Sarcasm indeed. 😎 With the exception of the occasional jerk, most physicians that I've met love their jobs and wouldn't do anything else in the world despite the numerous problems with practicing medicine.

I think you guys in those children's hospitals have some kind fairy dust you're able to sprinkle into the ventillation system to make everyone happier. Seldom am I in a bad mood when I spend significant time in a children's hospital.

Surprisingly the fairy dust is harvested from the butts of patients. Therefore if you want to be happy you must glove up and go deep.

 

[Perrotfish]

I really want to be a doctor, but I'm getting so scared out of it lately. It sounds like EVERYTHING is bad. Giving bad news, sticking your hands up peoples butts, etc. Is it just one long string of bad? Where do you find the pleasure in your job?

1) The warm and fuzzy joy: You get to give good news as well as bad. Your patients do get better, you do get to form real connections with some of them that you don't get in other industries, and that's fun.

2) The doctor House joy: Medicine likes to throw you a handful of patients that are really confusing. Unraveling the mystery of why they're so sick is like a puzzle: it's fun to figure out.

3) The joy of being a skilled worker: On the other hand a lot of your patients are 'bread and butter' and I'm the kind of person that gets a lot of satisfaction out of knowing how to do something and doing it well. This is why I didn't particularly like research or engineering: I didn't want every minute of every day to be me trying to fumble my way through a new problem. That's fun once in awhile, but sometimes its nice to know what you're doing.

4) The joy of guilt free financial security: You work a job that most people would describe as humanistic and noble, you don't feel like a sell out, and yet you have real financial security rather than being on the verge of moving back in with your parents. That's a really rare combination these days. You have to remember that the reason that a lot of your medical job sucks (and it will suck) is because its a JOB. If it didn't suck at least moderately they wouldn't pay you to do it. To some extent we all work for the weekend. Medicine pays well enough that you can spend your weekend doing something other than driving to your parents house so you can do your laundry.

 

[dr zaius]

OP shows maturity with "sticking hands up people's butts" comment.

This is actually the correct medical term.

 

[Morsetlis]

Surprisingly the fairy dust is harvested from the butts of patients. Therefore if you want to be happy you must glove up and go deep.

Oh my god