</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by docronmd1:
<strong>Nobadwords,
Kimberly is very right in saying that the respect and "awe factor" that docs enjoyed has cooled down in recent years.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I would like to one day become a cardio thoracic surgeon, partly because it sounds great; however, partly because you have a human body in your hands. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I agree with you that it is a FASCINATING subspecialty. But believe me....your perspective WILL change once you spend time on the surgical service, you will be on the other side of picture....not the glamorous, exciting, wealthy, 'godly' image people have of surgeons, but the sleepless nights, tiring days, stressful, no-time-for-loved ones side of the picture.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I agree that one's perspective WILL change once you've done a rotation. However, a medical school rotation may bear no resemblance to the actuality of day-to-day residency.
It IS true that I've been on some rotations where I regularly worked 130+ hrs per week - sleepless nights, tiring days, stressed out and cranky with my loved ones when I did see them. Then you've got days like today when, after morning rounds and chores were over (around 8:30 am) I've been essentially bored - no traumas (yet), all the patients tucked in and doing very nicely, etc. Every service, even non-surgical has its crappy rotations (or at least rotations which are less enjoyed). Just bear in mind that there is a great deal of variability amongst rotations and in real life practice (remember this the next time someone accuses me of being a "fake" as I couldn't possibly post here and be a surgical resident).